MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP)
- The state of Vermont is going to use grant money to help towns buy out five
homes destroyed or damaged by Tropical Storm Irene that are ineligible for a
federal buyout program.
The money will come
from a $21.6 million community development block grant.
The money also is
being used to help pay the 25 percent match for homes that were eligible for
funding from the Federal
Emergency Management Agency.
Officials aren't sure
how many homes will be bought out, but FEMA
has committed about $13 million to help buy out properties that were too badly
damaged to be reoccupied in areas believed to be prone to future flooding.
Four
of the five homes that were ineligible for FEMA funding are in Jamaica. The
fifth is in Hartford.
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