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Czech museum can receive FEMA assistance

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Mar. 29, 2010 8:38 pm

CEDAR RAPIDS - The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library will be eligible to receive federal assistance for flood recovery with a significant barrier removed.

Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, helped museum officials negotiate with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to remove a requirement to exhaust Small Business Administration disaster loans, museum CEO and President Gail Naughton said.

Those loans could have burdened the museum with debt, Loebsack's office noted.

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Five museum buildings were damaged during the floods of 2008 in Czech Village. Naughton did not know how much disaster relief funding might come from FEMA.