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A bill to provide for funding assistance under section 406 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5172) to a State or local government for the acquisition of real property for the purpose of the replacement of certain public facilities based on reasonable reliance of cost estimates provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
To provide for funding assistance under section 406 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5172) to a State or local government for the acquisition of real property for the purpose of the replacement of certain public facilities based on reasonable reliance of cost estimates provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Summary
This bill would authorize the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide funding assistance to State and local governments for replacing public facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita. Assistance would be available when FEMA cost estimates indicated that damage was severe enough to require replacement rather than repair or restoration. States and local governments would qualify if they acquired real property for facility replacement based on reasonable reliance on FEMA's cost estimates and if funds would otherwise be available under the Stafford Disaster Relief Act. The bill addresses situations where communities made acquisition decisions based on FEMA estimates that later determined replacement was the appropriate course of action.
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Actions (3)
- Jun 6, 2007 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery. · senate
- Mar 20, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. · senate
- Mar 20, 2007 Introduced in Senate
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 20, 2007
Ms. Landrieu introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
A BILL
To provide for funding assistance under section 406 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5172) to a State or local government for the acquisition of real property for the purpose of the replacement of certain public facilities based on reasonable reliance of cost estimates provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. ASSISTANCE FOR CERTAIN PUBLIC FACILITIES DAMAGED AS A RESULT OF HURRICANE KATRINA OR HURRICANE RIT.
The Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall make a contribution of funds under section 406 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5172) to a State or local government for the replacement of a public facility, if—
(1) that facility was damaged as a result of Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita;
(2) based on a cost estimate provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to that State or local government, the extent of the damage would require the replacement of that facility, instead of the repair, restoration, or reconstruction of that facility;
(3) that State or local government acquired real property for the purpose of the replacement of that facility based on reasonable reliance on the cost estimate described under paragraph (2); and
(4) such funds would otherwise be available to that State or local government for that facility in accordance with that Act. <all>
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