PROCLAMATION
11-02
The estimated cost to repair the damage is over $1,000,000,
and the overpass repair project will restrict pedestrian and
vehicle traffic on and around the overpass, interrupt traffic
on US 395 and Court Street, and cause inconvenience affecting
public health and safety; and
The Washington State Department of Transportation is
coordinating resources to repair the overpass to alleviate the
immediate impacts upon the infrastructure and public safety,
is continuing to assess the damage caused by this incident,
and is working to implement damage repairs; and
The impact of this incident to the life and health of our
citizens, as well as the property and transportation
infrastructure of Washington State, is a public disaster that
affects life, health, property and public peace.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Christine O. Gregoire, Governor of the state of
Washington, as a result of the above-noted situation and under
Chapters 38.52 and 43.06 RCW, do hereby proclaim that a State
of Emergency exists in Franklin County in the state of
Washington, and direct the plans and procedures in the
Washington State Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan be
implemented. State agencies and departments are directed to
utilize state resources and to do everything reasonably
possible to assist affected political subdivisions in an
effort to respond to and recover from the incident.
Signed and sealed with the official seal of the state of
Washington this 28th day of January, A.D. Two Thousand and
Eleven at Olympia, Washington.
| By: | |
| Christine O. Gregoire Governor |
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| BY THE GOVERNOR: Steve Excell |
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| [Assistant] Secretary of State |