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vate nonprofit property. Costs included debris removal, repair of rural electric cooperative power lines and repair of roads and other infrastructure damaged by storm-related flooding. Other costs include snow removal in six counties with record snowfalls.
• The disaster declaration authorizes the federal government to cover up to 75 percent of eligible costs. Counties eligible for assistance are: Butte, Corson, Custer, Dewey, Fall River, Haakon, Harding, Jackson, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington, Perkins, Shannon and Ziebach, as well as the Cheyenne River and Pine Ridge reservations.
• The presidential declaration also activates a disaster unemployment program, which provides some funds for self-employed people such as ranchers, who have lost their income because of the disaster, Daugaard said.
• Ranchers will get some help from disaster unemployment program, but what they really need is for Congress to pass a new farm bill, Daugaard said. The farm bill could revive a federal livestock disaster program that would cover some of ranchers' losses for dead livestock.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- An Eagle Butte man has pleaded not guilty to six charges resulting from a standoff with law enforcement officers in Pierre.
• KCCR-AM reports that 27-year-old Jason Todd Garreau entered the not-guilty pleas Friday during an arraignment in federal court in Pierre.
• Garreau was indicted on four counts of assaulting, resisting and impeding federal officers, one count of possession of a firearm during a crime of violence and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
• The charges resulted from a nine-hour standoff on Oct. 31 in which a Pierre police officer was shot. Officials have said the officer was not seriously wounded.
• Authorities say Garreau also was present when another man was shot to death during a shootout near Fort Thompson during a vehicle chase.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota commission has approved plans to boost the cost of hunting and fishing licenses as well as the charges for camping at state campgrounds.
• The state Game, Fish and Parks Commission voted unanimously Thursday to

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