FEMA to follow up with new disaster work

With local officials still working on finishing paperwork and meeting requirements for funding repairs from last year's flooding, they now are starting preliminary work for another likely federal disaster declaration.

Havre and Hill County officials met with a Federal Emergency Management Agency official in Havre Tuesday morning, as did officials on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, for initial damage estimates for this year's flooding so far.

Loran Gardner of FEMA said the officials should try to get as complete and accurate estimate as possible for the predisastof an er evaluation, but the num...