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The Council approved the project of almost 5 million euros to repair the Parador de Turismo
So far the state administration has disbursed over 152 million euros to alleviate the effects of the disaster
The presidential minister, Ramon Jauregui, today the Council of Ministers a report on the actions undertaken by public authorities and particularly by the state to mitigate the damage caused by earthquakes that struck the town of Murcia Lorca last May 11.
Because of earthquakes nine people died, 324 injured and thousands were evicted from their homes.
There were significant damage to numerous individual buildings, infrastructure and public facilities and cultural heritage.
The magnitude of the disaster required a rapid and coordinated response of the government, which took place through various committees such as the Inter-coordinated by the Ministry of Interior (General Directorate of Civil Defense and Emergencies, the Joint Committee involving the AGE, the AC of the Region of Murcia and the city of Lorca and the Single Desk for the Care of Victims of Lorca, attended by officials from the three administrations.
The Government of Spain, in particular, has adopted several rules among which the Royal Decree Law of 13 May by adopting urgent measures to repair the damage and the Royal Decree of 20 May, granted a direct subsidy to the Autonomous Community of Murcia, to finance measures to repair the damage to educational infrastructure, in addition to various agreements that take account of emergency repair works.
Emergency Response
The initial effort was aimed at rescuing the victims, health care and inspection of buildings (7839), which have been finally classified as non-residential (3.94%), without structural damage (5.93%) and living (89.27%).
The disaster response was swift and effective, as evidenced by the Military Emergency Unit (UME) will be activated within an hour after the second quake.
In the first 24 hours were deployed 630 troops and 195 vehicles of the EMU and at the end of May 12, three sites were installed homeless.
From May 17, there is one camp for up to 2,600 people.
Currently housed in this facility remain affected 151, attended by a small team of maintenance EMU effective and equipped with 3 vehicles 6.
The number of troops involved in the first phase of recovery of normal was about 2,000, distributed as follows:
Forces and State Security: 800
or Armed Forces / UME: 804
or DGT: 84
or other effects of the National Geographic Institute of Geological and Mining Institute of Spain.
and Spanish Red Cross: 250
The total cost of the emergency operation amounts to € 2,016,170.
Dwelling
Once past the first moment of emergency, from the early days began the reconstruction, repair and financial support, regulated by Royal Decree of 13 May, paying particular attention to activities relating to construction and housing.
Of the 33,000 available to Lorca, there are 23,748 who suffer from some type of damage.
So far 738 homes, of which 70% were inhabited, have already been demolished and is expected to reach a thousand.
13,176 applications for assistance to rebuild or repair have been submitted by individuals and are being processed.
The estimated cost of this aid is 220 million euros.
1158 are also requested rent subsidies for the destruction or damage to the housing 130 for replacement appliances.
The total cost of this assistance is estimated at 15 million and 348,000 euros respectively.
These grants will go will be paid as approved by the Joint Commission.
The Government is aware that the administrative work being slow at times but it shows its willingness to facilitate collaboration between the Government of Spain, the Government of the Region of Murcia and the city of Lorca, in order to expedite the processing of records and the arrival of aid.
Beyond aid, the truth is that it is necessary to respond to families whose homes have been demolished while performing a reconstruction that can last several years.
The Cabinet has now studied the possibility raised by the Ministry of Development to build on City-owned modular homes available to families would agree to the rented housing with appropriate support.
The Cabinet today decided to create a working group coordinated by the Ministry of Territorial Policy and that integrated Presidency, Interior and the Government Office to discuss this or other possible solutions.
Other allowances and assistance
On the other hand, the Ministry of Interior has paid € 18,000 to each of the families of the deceased 8 (144,000 € in total).
The ninth victim was not of first-degree relatives (parents, children) or marriage (spouse).
They have also established some tax benefits such as exemption of the shares of real estate tax for estates damaged, whose projected amount is close to 11 million euros, a reduction in business tax for the period of function 2011en cessation of activity and waivers from disposal of damaged vehicles.
The reduction of income in local finance these tax benefits that account will be offset against the general state budget.
Meanwhile, the Insurance Compensation Consortium has received 15 August 27 026 applications for compensation, of which 18 439 have already been paid, amounting to € 127.9 million.
The Consortium aims at the end of September have expert and fully paid, or at least through the payment of advances, between 85% and 90% of claims produced.
In addition, the government opened the ICO line loans amounting to € 25,000,000 for repair or replacement of facilities and equipment business, industrial and agricultural, but there have been only 5 records represent less than 1% of credit enabled.
Merchants in the area have claimed the provision of direct support line is also incumbent on whose study group coordinated by the Ministry of Land Policy.
Finally, more than 16,000 pensioners in the area are anticipated to June 1, payment of the bonus and have resolved 259 cases of deferral of Social Security payments affecting 866 workers.
Helps the City of Lorca
Once the city of Lorca submit the final list of damage to infrastructure and municipal buildings, the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Administration will take up to 50% of the costs, which will require an expenditure of around 20 million euros.
Furthermore, the Directorate General of Civil Defence and Emergency plans disbursement of up to 14 million euros to cover emergency expenses incurred by the City Council (demolition, cleanup and other actions arising from the delayed effects of the earthquake).
Of these, more than 3 million have already been transferred to the Consistory Lorca.
Moreover, in 2012 there will be a specific call for the town of Lorca's Assistance Program reindustrialization of Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade.
Within this call will be allocated € 1,000,000 in direct grants and € 12,000,000 repayable advances.
In addition, by agreement of all regions, the July 28 decision was made to allocate this year Lorca in 2011 25% of the State Plan on Improving the Competitiveness of Trade (€ 1.5 million of a total of 6,000 000 €).
Cultural Heritage
Important cultural heritage items were damaged to be repaired urgently to prevent its ruin.
The Ministry of Development, mostly from the 1% cultural, will finance the following works:
o Consolidation of the Palacio Guevara
or restoration of the wall of Lorca
or San Antonio Porch Restoration
or actions at St. Matthew
The total budget for these actions is 8,243,148 euros, of which 2,663,722 have already been executed euros.
Also damaged was the new Parador de Lorca, located in the grounds of the Castle, which was almost completed.
The Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade has initiated an emergency action is scheduled to last 10 months and will cost € 4,453,869, including design, site management and execution of works.
The Cabinet today gave its approval to this action, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2012.
In turn, the Ministry of Culture is involved in various rehabilitation and consolidation - including the rehabilitation of the tower of Ram and walls of the Castle, which includes a total of 4,322,505 euros for the period 2011-2013, of 1,151,000 euros which have already been executed.
European Funds
Finally, on July 20 presented the request to activate the Solidarity Fund of the EU, with an estimate of damage (public and private) of € 841 million.
The subsidy could be granted would be between € 12,000,000 € 25,000,000 and.
It has also informed the Council that the European Commission was ready to reschedule the ERDF Programme, allocating existing remnant of around € 15 million to a project of urban type.
Source: Delegación del Gobierno en Murcia
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