DHS Secretary Issues Waiver So Ships Can Take Fuel To Disaster Areas
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday issued a blanket, temporary waiver of the 1920 Jones Act to allow foreign-flag ships to deliver fuel resources to energy-starved areas of New York and New Jersey still reeling from Superstorm Sandy.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Red Cross, meanwhile, have stepped up cooperative efforts to restore power and deliver food, water and housing assistance - with help from the Energy and Defense departments and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Thousands in the Mid-Atlantic region are currently unable to purchase gasoline either because service stations have run out of product or they lack electrical power for the gas pumps. Waiver of the Jones Act will allow additional oil tankers coming from the Gulf of Mexico to enter Northeastern ports to provide oil and refined fuel until Nov. 13.
DATE:2012.11.5
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