FEMA authorized disaster loans for local governments

BATON ROUGE – Governor John Bel Edwards announced Friday that FEMA has approved the Community Disaster Loan for Louisiana.Edwards said the program will provide aid to local governments impacted by last month’s historic flooding.The CDL is one of many programs through which FEMA provides direct loans to local governments who suffered substantial loss of tax and other revenue in a disaster. Any funds loaned to local governments through the CDL must be used on existing governmen