NORWAY – Officials are asking individuals who had personal property damage from last month’s nor’easter to file damage reports with the town.

Although Oxford County has been declared a major disaster, along with 11 other counties, and will be eligible for public assistance for public infrastructure damaged in the April 16 storm from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, no provisions have been set yet for individual property damage.

Norway Emergency Management Director Bonnie Seames said very little information has been available about funding for individual property loss, but local towns are gathering as many personal property damage assessment forms as possible to send to the state’s Emergency Management Agency in hopes of showing the federal government the extent of the damage.

“We’ll do it till we don’t need to do it any more,” she said.

Seames said residents can pick up a form at Town Hall. Residents with personal property damage should take pictures and save their receipts.

Although the towns have been given no direction on whether funds will be available or when, Seames said the time to fill out the form may be worth the effort.

“It doesn’t cost anyone anything to come in and fill out a form,” she said.

The forms are being faxed to Scott Parker, regional emergency management agency director, who sends them to the state. There has been no cutoff date set for filing forms.

Seames said many summer residents may not even know if they have damage on their property until they arrive for the season, but attempts are being made to contact the property owners.

Oxford County was designated a federal disaster area after last month’s nor’easter and is in line to receive federal and state assistance to repair public infrastructure such as roads.

After a disaster, assistance is often available to individuals, families and businesses in an area where property has been damaged or destroyed and where losses are not covered by insurance, but the government must first determine that the amount of damage warrants intervention.

Once that is determined, designated counties are eligible to apply for federal funds to pay 75 percent of the approved cost of debris removal, emergency services related to the disaster and repairing or replacing damaged public facilities such as roads, buildings and utilities.