Governor Pence is appealing a federal decision denying a request for assistance to help local governments recover from flooding and severe storms.
The governor calls FEMA's decision "arbitrary," ''erroneous" and "inconsistent" with the way the agency treats other states. The funds were requested to help pay for damages after severe summer storms that led to flooding and crop damage.
Nineteen counties are included in the request and Pence says he’s reserving the right to add additional counties.
At least 10 deaths in June and July were connected to the storms, and Indiana presented FEMA with more than $11 million in damage attributed to heavy rainfall.
