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Landrieu Comments on FEMA's Travel Trailer Contracts

Press Release

Date: April 23, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security


Landrieu Comments on FEMA's Travel Trailer Contracts

United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today made the following statement on a Homeland Security Department Inspector General report on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) travel trailer contract bid process. Sens. Landrieu and Byron L. Dorgan, D-N.D., sent a letter on the bid process to Richard L. Skinner, the department's inspector general, on May 26, 2006.

"In response to my May 2006 letter with Senator Dorgan, the Homeland Security Department Inspector General's report shows that FEMA did not ensure local firms got their fair share of contracts for travel trailers. Instead, FEMA issued four $100 million contracts to a San Diego-based company. And the agency did not effectively solicit contracts to local companies in Louisiana or Mississippi, as the Stafford Act requires.

"I will continue to use the Homeland Security Disaster Recovery Subcommittee as a forum to ensure that all federal agencies responding to disasters, including FEMA, follow the law and contract appropriately to local firms."


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