CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been anticipating President Donald Trump would sign an order increasing federal funding associated with the June 2016 flood in West Virginia.

Following a formal request from Gov. Jim Justice, Trump signed an order on Feb. 21 that increases the federal reimbursement for public assistance projects from 75 percent to 90 percent. The result is the state is going to receive an additional $45 million in reimbursement from FEMA.

FEMA Region 3 administrator MaryAnn Tierney tells MetroNews, anticipating the action by President Trump, they’ve been grouping the hundreds of projects, which have already been reimbursed at 75 percent, into three different categories for the remaining 15 percent.

“We’ve organized the projects into three buckets,” Tierney said. “Projects that will be easy to quickly increase the dollar amount we’re moving ahead with those and then there are some projects that acquire a little additional work because it changes the dollar threshold to above a million dollars and then we have some additional projects where there’s going to be a little different complication and we have a process for those.”

Public assistance includes public infrastructure that was damaged in the flood and reimbursement to certain non-profit organizations. Cities, counties and the state paid the money up front for the damages caused.

Tierney said the additional $45 million anticipated for reimbursement will bring the total federal share for the disaster to approximately $352 million.

“The dollar amount is definitely indicator of the level of devastation and this is a very significant, costly event,” Tierney said. “There are lots of other, more impactful indictors besides the dollar amount like the continued human suffering from the event which I personally recognize from being in West Virginia frequently.”

FEMA lifted a four-year mandatory manual reimbursement restrictions that it had on the state last fall. Tierney said the work by state Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Director Michael Todorovich, state Adjutant General Jim Hoyer and their team has been impressive.

“That was a lot of work by West Virginia and our staff as a team to correct deficiencies in the grants management program, to build processies, and to train staff so that they would be able to competently executive their roles,” Tierney said.

Tierney said there’s still more work to do but she’s confident it will get done.

“We are very proud to be able to support West Virginia in their time of need and help them be ready for the next event,” Tierney said.