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April 20, 2006

R.I. officials want federal help with disasters

Providence Mayor David Cicilline wants to give the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier back to the Army Corps of Engineers.

Warwick officials want to be reimbursed in a timely manner when they send city personnel out to respond to national disasters.

Governor Carcieri pledged to have the state's hurricane evacuation routes completed by June 1.

And communities across the state would like some assurances that the federal government will pay the $32 million it would cost for universal communication equipment throughout Rhode Island.

Those were some of the messages delivered to U.S. Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-ME, and Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee, R-RI, during a hearing of their Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs this morning in Providence.

-- Journal environment writer Peter B. Lord

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