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U.S. funding  

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  • Relief for disasters in the United States includes assistance during the evacuation, response, recovery, and planning stages of declared disasters, and is administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as well as other governmental and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). History of U.S. Disaster Funding Prior to 1889, disaster relief was administered in an ad-hoc basis by the U.S. Department of War, or was largely a local phenomenon. [Source: Encyclopedia of Disaster Relief; Funding, U.S.]

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