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FEMA Funding for Southeastern Electric Repairs

FEMA Funding for Southeastern Electric Repairs

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is giving one point two million dollars in public assistance funding to Southeastern Electric, based in Marion, for disaster repairs.

Southeastern Manager Brad Schardin says its partial payment for ice storm damage…

Schardin says the FEMA funding helps ease the financial impact to their members.

Schardin says they have been working on the repairs over the last couple of years…

The FEMA funding covers up to seventy five percent of the repair costs.

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