(Bloomsburg) -- More than two dozen unemployed people have found work assisting flood damaged areas in six central Pennsylvania counties. The cleanup from the fall's record storms is being funded by more than $730,000 in federal grant money awarded to the Central Pennsylvania Workforce Development Corporation. Among the counties it serves are Columbia, Northumberland and Snyder. Penny Hess, who coordinates the six-month program through the state's CareerLink office in Bloomsburg, says workers are on the front lines of cleanup efforts. "they're doing some debris removal work in townships, boroughs, public libraries, fire departments that were flooded. They're cleaning up flood damage and removing drywall and replacing that," Hess says. He adds military veterans and people who lost their jobs as a result of the flooding get priority in hiring. The pay could be up to $13 an hour. All of the program's 28 workers are required to spend four hours a week at the CareerLink office looking for permanent employment.