TEXT OF THE PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR

AMENDING PROCLAMATION OF AN EMERGENCY

The severe winter storm which began November 19, 1996 is continuing to cause extensive damage in Washington State.

WHEREAS, extensive damages are occurring to roads, homes, and businesses in Pend Oreille County; and

WHEREAS, persons and property are and will be without power for an extended period of time and life and property are at risk in Pend Oreille County; and

NOW THEREFORE, I, MIKE LOWRY, Governor of the state of Washington as a result of the aforementioned situation and under RCW 43.06 and 38.52, do hereby amend the proclamation of November 20, 1996, and further proclaim that a State of Emergency exists in Pend Oreille County and authorize execution of the Washington State Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan.

IN WITNESS WHERE OF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the state of Washington to be affixed at Olympia this 6th day of December, A.D., Nineteen Hundred Ninety-six.

Signed by Mike Lowry, Governor

Attested to by Donald F. Whiting, Assistant Secretary of State