STATUS OF AGNES DISASTER ACTIVITIES

Secretary ROMNEY. The first sheet gives the basic picture with respect to the overall situation. At the bottom are the figures as of September 24. Applications received total 33,456. You will notice that 24,893 were in Pennsylvania, and 7,316 in New York.

Applications processed were 33,139 and applicants determined eligible were 26,966-20,097 were in Pennsylvania and nearly 6,000 in New York.

In New York we housed 5,802 families and in Pennsylvania 18,683. The other States are also noted for a total of 25,455.

TYPES OF APPLICATIONS

Mr. JONAS. Were these applications all from individuals or did you include municipal applications?

Secretary ROMNEY. These were just housing applications.

Mr. JONAS. Individuals?

Secretary ROMNEY. Yes. There are a few multiple units in here. but these are mostly individual family applications.

Mr. TALCOTT. These are applications to HUD?

Secretary ROMNEY. Yes.

Mr. TALCOTT. Were there any to a State agency?

Secretary ROMNEY. No. These were applications that we have handled for temporary housing.

Mr. TALCOTT. They were processed by HUD?

Secretary ROMNEY. They were processed by HUD personnel.
Mr. TALCOTT. And the families were housed by HUD?

Secretary ROMNEY. Yes; but with this modification. In the case of minor repairs and that is one element here, minor rehabilitationthe Corps of Engineers has the responsibility for actually contracting that work and seeing that it is done. But we handle the processing and determine eligibility with respect to that particular activity.

METHODS OF PROVIDING TEMPORARY HOUSING

You see a breakdown on the next sheet between the different methods of providing temporary housing. A basic method of course, is the use of mobile homes. In the first column you can see that there were 12,657 mobile home units already occupied as of September 24. The estimated requirement is 14,540. In the next column you will see travel trailers. For the first time in this disaster we made use of travel trailers where you park a travel trailer next to the house so the family can work on the rehabilitation of the house. In many instances that has been adequate and people have preferred to do that.

There are 1,736 travel trailers which have been occupied.

SOURCE OF MOBILE HOMES AND TRAILERS

Mr. JONAS. Where did you get all the mobile homes and trailers?