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<dc:title>115 S320 RS: National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2025</dc:title>
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<distribution-code display="yes">II</distribution-code><calendar>Calendar No. 183</calendar><congress>119th CONGRESS</congress><session>1st Session</session><legis-num>S. 320</legis-num><associated-doc role="report">[Report No. 119–74]</associated-doc><current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber><action><action-date date="20250129">January 29, 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="S413">Mr. Padilla</sponsor> (for himself and <cosponsor name-id="S288">Ms. Murkowski</cosponsor>) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSCM00" added-display-style="italic" deleted-display-style="strikethrough">Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation</committee-name></action-desc></action><action stage="Reported-in-Senate"><action-date date="20251014">October 14, 2025</action-date><action-desc>Reported by <sponsor name-id="S355">Mr. Cruz</sponsor>, with an amendment</action-desc><action-instruction>Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic</action-instruction></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title>To reauthorize the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body style="OLC" display-enacting-clause="yes-display-enacting-clause"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="section-one" id="id8f755e91-a31c-45c9-8f7c-2e4b13e2fe9a" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>1.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2025</short-title></quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="id5b514023-5ec6-4c1e-815d-a5563fb8c4a5" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>2.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Modification of findings</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 2 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7701">42 U.S.C. 7701</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id40e560b1-0256-49fb-8d14-c5b1f66eda98"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc5dac082-8be9-453b-998c-b5f1a6c27ed8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>50 States, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,</quote> and inserting <quote>States and Tribal jurisdictions</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5e961e4d-b589-4b26-80a5-323f267de881"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>of them</quote> and inserting <quote>States</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfb42c8c5-1761-45a0-8a43-70a66c292e79"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following: <quote>Almost half of the United States population resides in areas that are at risk or experiencing a damaging earthquake during the 50-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of the <short-title>National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2025</short-title></quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7a87739c-5f76-4409-9696-b423712a0d8e"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9945b526-32a2-45b2-961a-901c55511125"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after the first sentence the following: <quote>A 2023 report by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the United States Geological Survey (FEMA P–366) estimates the annualized earthquake losses to the national building stock is $14,700,000,000 per year and the total economic exposure to earthquake losses (buildings and contents) across the nation is $107,800,000,000,000.</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb5bd434b-1a17-438d-8b68-c1368230d33e"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the third sentence—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id679582fd-d5d1-49ec-8a4b-1dcfbd7fb879"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and construction</quote> and inserting <quote>, construction, evaluation, and retrofitting</quote>; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id00839ff7-44b9-4ea5-bbba-651297bcbc62"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and (E)</quote> and inserting the following: <quote>(E) inventories of buildings and infrastructure with high seismic risk, especially those that are critical to community resilience, (F) programs that require or incentivize replacement or retrofit of existing buildings and infrastructure with high seismic risk, especially those that are critical to community resilience, and (G)</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide7eed85e-7763-4a40-b982-dbd1b2fb86dd"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3), by inserting <quote>Tribal,</quote> after <quote>local,</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id96b9b5c5-c415-466c-af7f-490267111d54"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (4), by striking <quote>could provide</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting <quote>is necessary to provide the scientific understanding needed to improve and expand the earthquake early warning system.</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0c8d66af-697c-4eaf-82fc-d1fbb847dfea"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (8), by striking <quote>cave-ins</quote> and inserting <quote>collapse</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb711d164-a479-4ada-b088-61cb66f5a6bd"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (9)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1ff65b09-d23f-4564-8e1d-950f762d0794"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first sentence, by striking <quote>and local</quote> and inserting <quote>local, and Tribal government</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id64c27d78-46f0-49a9-a648-795b8286b787"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the second sentence, by striking <quote>transfer knowledge and information to</quote> and inserting <quote>exchange knowledge and information between</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idaaf02392-da5b-4c72-a8f3-e0fb4796fa03"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the third sentence, by striking <quote>specifications, criteria</quote> and inserting <quote>guidelines, codes, standards</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3cb6f44b-0642-4050-8925-390d786df873"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (12)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id925d0247-c45d-4387-9fad-760eb714c50a"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the second sentence—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide6ae42af-3357-4e52-881e-d9748e61c131"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>When earthquakes occur, the built environment is generally</quote> and inserting <quote>Relatively newer buildings and infrastructure have generally been</quote>; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida5451b78-1724-42ff-a5fa-94f3cf18f710"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and is</quote> and inserting <quote>when earthquakes occur, but most are</quote>; and</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8c2dd6f9-2c8a-4a12-8eea-211330bd2bb0"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following: <quote>In addition, buildings and infrastructure built to older codes and standards may pose significant risk of injury, loss of life, or irreparable damage. A 2021 report submitted to Congress pursuant to section 8(b), as amended by section 5 of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2018 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/115/307">Public Law 115–307</external-xref>), by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (FEMA P2090/NST SP–1254) provides recommendations for improving post-earthquake functional recovery time of the built environment to support community resilience goals and many of these recommendations still need to be implemented.</quote>; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idecd2f09c-6d41-47cd-bdae-6e57e84301c2"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (13)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id57f02b69-ccce-42d4-a26a-00dae99136c7"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first sentence, by inserting <quote>in 2011</quote> after <quote>a study</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfcd309a7-5933-444f-9ab3-6454e4632ebf"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the second sentence, by inserting <quote>(in 2011 dollars)</quote> after <quote>$300,000,000</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id00e7d342-d586-4b27-bf97-e7773bf35ab2"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following: <quote>The cost of actual seismic retrofits to reduce known risks is not included in such valuation.</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="ida5c82677-faf4-444e-bfd2-4e4ee7233647" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>3.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Modification of purpose</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7702">42 U.S.C. 7702</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id80a09263-9a0f-4b4e-8a09-d69d6a0ca0b8"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idac88225a-e48c-43b5-b4e5-4fd957559fa9"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and local</quote> and inserting <quote>, local, and Tribal government</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id705d0621-0b3e-424d-a0b8-d342ab143ca1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>locations and structures</quote> and inserting <quote>buildings and infrastructure</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8ac4a3f9-60ec-429c-a1f0-5104783bb99b"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id015f6908-3753-474b-9a57-ef7cbe56d02f"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and construction</quote> and inserting <quote>, construction, evaluation, and retrofitting</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8ef9b54a-eceb-443c-a2dd-26de4f30a49a"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>housing and care facilities for vulnerable populations,</quote> after <quote>occupancy buildings</quote>; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id57d24004-b11e-4517-9443-badfbad6f07e"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (4)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide47e78d8-7e40-44eb-9603-a562cd90f2b8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and local</quote> and inserting <quote>, local, and Tribal government</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id449c34c4-b51e-4541-88c8-5f651a479c34"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>encourage consideration of</quote> and inserting <quote>incorporate</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="id3f68326d-50d9-436e-b0f5-979966f09ab9" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>4.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Modification of definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 4 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7703">42 U.S.C. 7703</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb399c725-5b59-495a-9889-09b0524a0da3"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3), by inserting <quote>, including secondary effects such as earthquake-caused tsunamis</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcc11201f-84e6-45b0-99cd-28fc0d35a88f"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id78d807cf-e01e-4ce9-bc2f-f69fb5b5fdd6" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id61bb3109-13b1-40d3-9445-81b0afa04e58"><enum>(11)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Tribal government</term> has the meaning given the term <quote>tribal government</quote> in section 421 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/2/658">2 U.S.C. 658</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id254aa3fa-924a-40cc-9169-75355d98db35"><enum>(12)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>functional recovery</term> means a post-earthquake performance state in which a building or lifeline infrastructure system is maintained, or restored, to safely and adequately support the basic intended functions associated with the pre-earthquake use or occupancy of a building, or the pre-earthquake service level of a lifeline infrastructure system. </text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf3a1755acb0741a88ff7151ed10c7590"><enum>(13)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>earthquake forecast</term> means a statement of probabilities that 1 or more earthquakes within a clearly specified magnitude range may occur within a specified time interval and geographic region.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="idd2a27018-9af8-42e0-9044-352eec1fd655" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>5.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Improvements to National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6256d40d-74e5-4171-b47f-c2794526b47a"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Program activities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a)(2) of section 5 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7704">42 U.S.C. 7704</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3cb05a55-6a96-4240-bfd7-c1248e1e7024"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id873d4dd7-c1dc-4daa-a060-b01bcadf3b7c"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter before clause (i)—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd4f2007e-599f-4a48-afd0-869b6df4fc7d"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and local</quote> and inserting <quote>, local, and Tribal</quote>; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6f8f7c1b-fb49-4703-9daa-9029f31c2bf7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and constructing</quote> and inserting <quote>, designing, constructing, evaluating, and retrofitting</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id65fa58e0471f40bdb84b5f7dd0a7072d"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by amending clause (ii) to read as follows:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDBFB99869A8C4A87A88F849180C71D4D" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7106d3591979413085090b6aafcf835e"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">development of standards, guidelines, and voluntary standards, guidelines, and consensus codes for earthquake hazards reduction for buildings, structures, and lifeline infrastructure, including post-earthquake recovery-based performance objectives that address reoccupancy and downtime of community-prioritized buildings, structures, and services provided by lifeline infrastructure;</text></clause><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id25733224-0459-4e27-a542-6ed3b05a3569"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (iii), by striking <quote>and hazards reduction; and</quote> and inserting <quote>functional recovery, and other hazards reduction topics;</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idffdf8ac5-be07-4c00-8f2e-8b7e64e4f20f"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (iv)—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2d3e437b-43e1-433d-beec-afb473ce2758"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>and maintaining</quote> after <quote>publishing</quote>;</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id17aa555280fc44eebd7e25c077fc4f8e"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>in coordination with the National Tsunami Hazards Mitigation Program, tsunami susceptibility,</quote> after <quote>liquefaction susceptibility,</quote>; and </text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idac9b627d-3562-420f-b323-0d96b70622a5"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>; and</quote> and inserting a semicolon; and</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8bfab1e2-979b-46d4-bd67-3bfbc718df0a"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfac48ea8-b3d8-4c2e-8b66-abba47e2e63b" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide80c0dc3-9343-4642-8bcb-7afe08e8a286"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">subject to the availability of funds, development of best practices and guidelines to create an inventory of and conduct seismic performance evaluations of buildings, structures, and lifeline infrastructure with high seismic risk, especially those that are critical to community resilience; and </text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id444cc11e-1363-4b64-ad87-8a96bcccf54f"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">subject to the availability of funds, the provision of technical assistance upon request by a State, local, or Tribal government regarding—</text><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb70b5662-5128-4e21-9f87-e6fd4084ef8b"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the creation of an inventory of buildings, structures, and lifeline infrastructure;</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idff337e18-aeee-4aea-8248-cba116b68358"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the performance of seismic performance evaluations; and</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id556fd2b6-6ced-4f1e-93c8-65f065a9df65"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">cost-effective best practices for retrofitting existing buildings, structures, and lifeline infrastructure.</text></subclause></clause><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7e042e3b-7a9d-473c-9d13-aaa074a1f49a"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (C), by striking <quote>; and</quote> and inserting a semicolon;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id733c4060-f097-4134-ba69-c6ff0bd2be6f"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (E); and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id468b8722-0c83-4ae2-ac61-6bd4830ce210"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3a7df4e2-0b0a-439d-bcb7-ecf14901523b" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id66a9b4d6-fb6c-4e3a-bc0f-d436ca7ebf91"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">improve the understanding of—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8ac3536a-8873-45b4-90b1-aa4e8683847e"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the multiple hazards associated with earthquakes, including liquefaction, tsunamis, landslides, structural fires, and the compounding effects of climate on these hazards; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida77ebe43-bdee-469c-9940-a355e0afb31b"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">potential mitigation measures for such hazards; and </text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida8f962c6-2f7a-4065-ba76-08244019b040"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties of Interagency Coordinating Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a)(3)(D)(ii) of such section is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf12ab976-4302-47fa-a8f0-130e2d97dc71"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subclause (V), by inserting <quote>and associated secondary hazards</quote> before the period at the end; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id398ddddb-6f4a-4012-a542-d9e832cbd927"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id48d8da02-c3a7-44f3-80fa-385a227b3e00" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id855ae129-7661-4d3c-992a-ec34b3af50e4"><enum>(VIII)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coordinating with the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission on the timely broadcasting of emergency alerts generated by the earthquake early warning system.</text></subclause><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id439797a1-4bea-465d-97f9-03fd8d41d6b2"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Biennial report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a)(4)(A) of such section is amended by striking <quote>under paragraph (3)(D)(i)(I)</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>under paragraph (3)(D)(ii)(I)</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6e8c2aee490a47eb9cb7440bc3e78908"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Advisory committee</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a)(5)(A) of such section is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id553090ff4c8e47a5bdb8a44cd2ade3b2"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>the Chair of the Scientific Earthquake Studies Advisory Committee and</quote> after <quote>including</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcdb918b1b7aa472eb5600ab7cbc32342"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and local government</quote> and inserting <quote>, local, and Tribal governments</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb4c09bcc1efb4125b76c8d919dbdd7b8"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>social,</quote> after <quote>scientific,</quote>. </text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9bd1d8e8-c729-4687-902a-604162c9d006"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Lead agency for responsibilities of Program agencies</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b)(1) of such section is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9c76768e-02ab-4b3a-89c7-8bcbfa600d7a"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id21a86073-3fc2-4995-927c-ad5a4b68f811"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and local</quote> and inserting <quote>local, and Tribal governments</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9a206830-85cd-41ba-8e3e-e50fb608e3f4"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>plan and constructing</quote> and inserting <quote>planning, designing, constructing, evaluating, and retrofitting</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id85c806d2-de70-4216-894a-8d8aa5801faf"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraphs (C) and (D) as subparagraphs (F) and (G), respectively; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7ca75e6d-f94a-48c1-b97b-b3d4baf96fb6"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5d970fed-9850-4359-90ff-2ca40e83b039" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id174a6a71-81f5-4498-9a06-f5f0c168799c"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">improve the understanding of earthquake-caused fires and support the development of engineering tools and construction methods that mitigate the risk of fire following earthquakes;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idba0f8af7-ee35-440a-981b-365f2815ab82"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">develop, in coordination with the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, best practices and guidelines for a State, local, or Tribal government to create an inventory of buildings, structures, or lifeline infrastructure that are critical to community resilience or otherwise have high seismic risk;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id36b7d6d5-5c74-4975-922e-524301adf8af"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide, in coordination with the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, technical assistance to a State, local, or Tribal government requesting such assistance with respect to the creation of an inventory of buildings, structures, or lifeline infrastructure; </text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id62d4ed73-650a-4f4a-a620-15ff05652f5b"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Responsibilities of Federal Emergency Management Agency</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b)(2) of such section is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0f9ed430-d7fc-405d-989c-192a222d1226"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7d7e7109-4467-4d0a-b21a-0cfbd7f79e1a"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (i)—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfae8e002-fc5b-4dc0-8b5b-39251790247d"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>and Tribal governments</quote> after <quote>States</quote>;</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id48d4664c7fde4a778d14ea8597831617"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>and performance evaluations</quote> after <quote>safety inspections</quote>; and </text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id325d4ed2-9053-466a-8430-f4c412568acc"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>and improve post-earthquake functional recovery</quote> after <quote>seismic safety</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc6508d76-6d0e-40fa-beb1-53f3eb7ac737"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (ii), by inserting <quote>, including Tribal entities,</quote> after <quote>appropriate audiences</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4df4a08b-b2ad-4072-9faf-42c82e2ccf04"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (iii)—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfdc417f5-1f1f-4959-a04d-7a64610c05b4"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>of seismic resistant</quote> and inserting <quote>to all appropriate audiences, including Tribal governments, of</quote>; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idde4de705-46e0-4d22-a61c-be357cc6e505"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>that enhance seismic safety, improve post-earthquake functional recovery, and reduce losses from earthquakes</quote> after <quote>and lifeline infrastructure</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0878447a-6272-4419-bf3f-0a87ec357603"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (iv)—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id443b2f17-15ee-45df-b411-df36e70cc3ff"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in striking <quote>and local</quote> and inserting <quote>, local, and Tribal</quote>; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8b778344-eeab-4805-a797-ffac1107e71f"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>; and</quote> and inserting a semicolon;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0b60122f-02be-4b0b-8301-f61f4552e90a"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating clause (v) as clause (vi); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0fb79e4d-245a-41b5-a523-f6337d4be6d0"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after clause (iv) the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf0f6d6ca-27cc-4e8b-ac0e-b5ebf48ace1a" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id57e4ff14-9ec4-436c-87a0-50274c900a57"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall provide technical assistance to State, local, or Tribal governmental entities in the creation of evacuation plans in the event of an earthquake, landslide, tsunami, or other earthquake-related hazard; and</text></clause><after-quoted-block display="yes">; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc7c03373-b99c-4b20-a818-f0d317b1273f"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id11fb3f67-b87d-4548-856c-11ae2db0def6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the subparagraph heading, by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">and Tribal</header-in-text></quote> after <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">State</header-in-text></quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1d8b081b-2822-4af8-90f1-e90bdcca256f"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter before clause (i), by inserting <quote>or Tribal government</quote> after <quote>State</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id70facafe-1095-47e8-aefd-956f7ec81e47"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (i), by striking <quote>safety</quote> and inserting <quote>performance, community resilience, or public awareness</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id40688777-ceef-4259-947f-e0333b178ab1"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Responsibilities of United States Geological Survey</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b)(3) of such section is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id46392686-a551-4a5c-ab63-926cbfb7f0bd"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>and local</quote> and inserting <quote>, local, and Tribal</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id63470fd0-d885-4924-ab1f-1b743b51dd87"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (C), by inserting <quote>, the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission,</quote> after <quote>Agency</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id57f0d0b2-7ce7-4f39-810d-124e35c3ab86"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraphs (D) through (K) as subparagraphs (L) through (Q), respectively;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id11780f4f-3de6-4514-b4c7-c32f38a6cd7d"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id876008b2-0076-426a-8e9b-6137d1715585" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb5decbc4-b167-4a14-b9bc-526073d0be55"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinate with the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on data sharing and resource allocation to support a timely response to oceanic earthquakes and tsunamis;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id766308e4-6944-4c2e-848e-19288f6db085"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in consultation with the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission, ensure that earthquake alerts and early warnings are broadcast as rapidly and reliably as possible, in the predominant languages in the affected region, to ensure maximum warning time for nearby persons;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddd25257b-de31-40b6-8b1e-9644d4360180"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">expand the earthquake early warning system within and to additional high risk hazard areas, including making improvements as practicable to improve detection and increase the time between warning messages and perceptible ground motion;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida4833b7f-e498-491e-a3d2-aa8ba833d105"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinating with affected State and Tribal governments on earthquake early warning system improvements;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbe814190c7c7413e8fa82a9571480c7f"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">issue earthquake forecasts, when appropriate, for aftershocks associated with significant earthquakes in the United States;</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb924ac7f-d34d-4687-be60-ed26cb323d51"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (I), as redesignated by paragraph (3), by inserting <quote>the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission,</quote> after <quote>Agency,</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id803038c3-59a1-465e-b59c-31b7e2290d8d"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (L), as redesignated by paragraph (3), by striking <quote>; and</quote> and inserting a semicolon;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3e056805-b98b-4b86-a068-620f3420f06a"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (M), as redesignated by paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id472bb3d0-1c0a-4a95-9028-c6c6114d4a9a"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (O), as redesignated by paragraph (3), by inserting <quote>maps of natural hazards associated with earthquakes and</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf09bb3d7-6f00-4808-8e2b-a86291ac2175"><enum>(h)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Responsibilities of National Science Foundation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b)(4)(A) of such section is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide1c09969-824e-47da-815a-5847fd36c527"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (iii), by inserting <quote>including updated tsunami and liquefaction risk maps,</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2bb1cdd3-5ad5-42fe-8eb0-99c8300b3a46"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (vii), by striking <quote>Historically Black Colleges and Universities and those serving large proportions of Hispanics, Native Americans, Asian-Pacific Americans, and other underrepresented populations</quote> and inserting <quote>institutions described in section 371(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/20/1067q">20 U.S.C. 1067q(a)</external-xref>)</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="id9db7672f-144a-4595-85c8-5319d436594b" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>6.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Seismic performance property standards</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 947 of the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7704a">42 U.S.C. 7704a</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf6cfd34e-310d-440f-afd9-8c9cd8c76aad"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by striking <quote>safety</quote> both places it appears and inserting <quote>performance</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id63ff66d3-f366-4348-aa1d-1dac4e0caff9"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b), by striking <quote>shake-related property damage</quote> and inserting <quote>seismic-related property damage to improve the post-earthquake functional recovery time</quote>.</text></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="idf6137a73-7b79-4796-bbe1-67b9a12abe30" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>7.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Seismic standards</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7705b">42 U.S.C. 7705b</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id51ed3383-dea3-400f-9e1b-d43c0d883148"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b), by striking <quote>under paragraph (1)</quote> and inserting <quote>under subsection (a)</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf8382a9a-2f28-48c1-b5b3-a5b16d94ffa1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc3dee62e-d5a8-4b53-a957-a55af7b97266" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0308a788-eca0-4dc0-9e80-72afd3667820"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Implementation of recommendations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each Program agency, as part of their Program responsibilities, shall execute research, projects, grants, and other activities that support, promote, advance, or otherwise implement the recommendations in the report submitted pursuant to subsection (b) to improve the performance of the built environment in terms of post-earthquake reoccupancy and functional recovery time.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbc6092fd-47aa-44b4-89a0-716784d0f235"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Biennial reports</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id86ca5161-0391-4ed2-bb27-d83b3566e1a4"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Biennial reports to Interagency Coordinating Committee</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No later than September 30, 2025, and not less frequently than once every 2 years thereafter, each Program agency shall submit to the Interagency Coordinating Committee a report on activities and progress made to support, promote, or advance the implementation of the recommendations included in the report submitted pursuant to subsection (b).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf9a83e4a-1535-48b8-9aa0-949f6020e04b"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Inclusion in biennial reports of Interagency Coordinating Committee</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Interagency Coordinating Committee shall include the information received under paragraph (1) in each biennial report submitted under section 5(a)(4), including consideration of a prioritized work plan to coordinate activities among the Program agencies and the necessary Program budget to fully implement the recommendations described in paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="ide94dcba4-86b6-437f-9861-9e3e6691e34a" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>8.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Improvements to post-earthquake investigations program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 11 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7705e">42 U.S.C. 7705e</external-xref>) is amended, in the matter before paragraph (1)—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0d2d0a95-882e-4391-a509-2b1b120cebc2"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first sentence, by inserting <quote>domestic and international</quote> after <quote>investigate major</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id52d4acc2-b579-4465-a9c3-0ac8d33563f8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the fifth sentence, by inserting <quote>Federal Emergency Management</quote> before <quote>Agency</quote>.</text></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="idc73cd60b-235d-42ce-98ee-9631fc404463" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>9.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ided3b8ac4-8b1b-4513-8730-f1db5c2af868"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">General authorization for program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a)(8) of section 12 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7706">42 U.S.C. 7706</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc99118e4-bd3c-472a-9659-ae5ca9316893"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (I), by striking <quote>, and</quote> and inserting a comma; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id70e3bf0f-5891-482a-a0d9-56420aa1e05a"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (J) the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idce7da12a-e2bd-48e3-b602-9014a753328b" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id23dd0126-9cfe-4bc8-ae51-f24c164187b3"><enum>(K)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$10,590,000 for fiscal year 2024,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id334b2723-85df-4210-8606-64cb28ecc0a8"><enum>(L)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$10,590,000 for fiscal year 2025,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd964f4b6-bb06-485e-af1b-d495cdae1131"><enum>(M)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$10,590,000 for fiscal year 2026,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf580d46e-ddad-4d35-bb6a-c7c63534b593"><enum>(N)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$10,590,000 for fiscal year 2027, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide24344da-7586-46ce-a5bf-08edda3a19d8"><enum>(O)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$10,590,000 for fiscal year 2028,</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id638940a6-df73-48c8-9154-9afb5380a2ec"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">United States Geological Survey</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b)(2) of such section is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1ceb327e-4a28-4589-88e6-1a650604744d"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (I), by striking <quote>; and</quote> and inserting a semicolon;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbd9465f7-bdf6-4893-9162-04f07f9e65f7"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (J), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2e2442aa-2616-45a5-b512-f2e67c6d8148"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id99d4d552-e7a7-44b0-83b6-e69135a18d50" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ideb41ffd7-29ee-49cb-863e-8feefb81a69f"><enum>(K)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$100,900,000 for fiscal year 2024, of which not less than $36,000,000 shall be made available for completion of the Advanced National Seismic System established under section 13;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide43d5a12-b3e2-42e1-8439-654fd6c5c72d"><enum>(L)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$100,900,000 for fiscal year 2025, of which not less than $36,000,000 shall be made available for completion of the Advanced National Seismic System established under section 13;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc4bffd9b-1e0f-4b33-803d-d024b429ed50"><enum>(M)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$100,900,000 for fiscal year 2026, of which not less than $36,000,000 shall be made available for completion of the Advanced National Seismic System established under section 13;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide760053d-cbe1-4126-af40-6c26999be877"><enum>(N)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$100,900,000 for fiscal year 2027, of which not less than $36,000,000 shall be made available for completion of the Advanced National Seismic System established under section 13; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9ba64da2-3b1a-4ff3-b92f-06a56bfda893"><enum>(O)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$100,900,000 for fiscal year 2028, of which not less than $36,000,000 shall be made available for completion of the Advanced National Seismic System established under section 13. </text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4d0efaf9-7e3d-4582-b8fb-8278b3693554"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National Science Foundation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (c)(2) of such section is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id47a8d635-81eb-4ee7-85ae-2d252d54d449"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (I), by striking <quote>, and</quote> and inserting a comma;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id07186f68-6d14-4594-ba55-bdc5862960d2"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (J), by striking the period at the end and inserting a comma; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5145d6a6-2812-415a-9357-1bb6dd51660d"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc934ef2b-8f2d-44fd-bf5e-66890adfe75b" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf33b9de3-4c76-466d-959e-b033143212dd"><enum>(K)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$58,000,000 for fiscal year 2024,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf8ac3a13-96c9-434d-a2a1-3c926af43561"><enum>(L)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$58,000,000 for fiscal year 2025,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5c92b5ef-fd39-4167-8329-6db9e0b38833"><enum>(M)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$58,000,000 for fiscal year 2026,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id56fd0039-7904-4e87-8826-42fe29402cd4"><enum>(N)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$58,000,000 for fiscal year 2027, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id38ff7462-2240-4da5-afe8-3817c543221e"><enum>(O)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$58,000,000 for fiscal year 2028.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd6e4122c-8294-415c-a9b8-40390c59b6c0"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National Institute of Standards and Technology</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (d)(2) of such section is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf7050141-6fe1-4715-9f39-a5fe5a5dadc9"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (I), by striking <quote>, and</quote> and inserting a comma;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id431fc058-84b5-4056-a8be-f72035c81aac"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (J), by striking the period at the end and inserting a comma; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id22c5d4c4-2b24-44d9-876a-f13bef50e3fc"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (J) the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6e50c905-935c-47ce-b316-92e39c26f3fa" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idaddf3ea4-d766-46df-8e1d-36b3f494d415"><enum>(K)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$5,900,000 for fiscal year 2024,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida4c8f438-d015-4aba-bd17-ec2a7c6367db"><enum>(L)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$5,900,000 for fiscal year 2025,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5b61d676-c354-42d3-b1bb-a3a2d87d5fe0"><enum>(M)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$5,900,000 for fiscal year 2026,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd48a94ac-6676-4f2a-81bb-ab25ed5c3756"><enum>(N)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$5,900,000 for fiscal year 2027, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id925e817e-99d0-4d6e-8718-879ea1ff122f"><enum>(O)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$5,900,000 for fiscal year 2028,</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section></legis-body><legis-body style="OLC" display-enacting-clause="no-display-enacting-clause"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="section-one" id="id2cc4450f-7919-417a-a613-a757ce78af6d" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>1.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2025</short-title></quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="id9810dfe1-faba-48ec-b915-713d37dafe11" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>2.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Modification of findings</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 2 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7701">42 U.S.C. 7701</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc6d642e2-34f1-466a-903d-6a1c744428b5"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id28688111-d2d6-49ff-889f-0622d57029ca"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>50 States, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,</quote> and inserting <quote>States and Tribal jurisdictions</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide6ebc1d9-893b-493b-aee8-6ec25e24abaa"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>of them</quote> and inserting <quote>States</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id19ba693f156043c896de256f38acfac9"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>Tennessee,,</quote> and inserting <quote>, Tennessee,</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbf63b4f8-baf5-4b41-af6a-a8dc4fac96f6"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>A large portion of the population of the United States lives in areas vulnerable to earthquake hazards</quote> and inserting <quote>Almost half of the United States population resides in areas that are at risk or experiencing a damaging earthquake during the 50-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of the <short-title>National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2025</short-title></quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd0290c25-ac6d-4361-a3fd-5c5aef41306a"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6e3a52bd-642f-4e6b-a1e5-ad76be0fe9f2"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after the first sentence the following: <quote>A 2023 report by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the United States Geological Survey (FEMA P–366) estimates the annualized earthquake losses to the national building stock is $14,700,000,000 per year and the total economic exposure to earthquake losses (buildings and contents) across the nation is $107,800,000,000,000.</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbd14951c-77aa-498c-88d3-e5599c5ff215"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the third sentence—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idca6bb343-97db-44a9-8478-35fb0c352e12"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and construction</quote> and inserting <quote>, construction, evaluation, and retrofitting</quote>; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id43018c60-20a8-4811-a656-b29563061a0a"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and (E)</quote> and inserting the following: <quote>(E) inventories of buildings and infrastructure with high seismic risk, especially those that are critical to community resilience, (F) programs that require or incentivize replacement or retrofit of existing buildings and infrastructure with high seismic risk, especially those that are critical to community resilience, and (G)</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5865014a-acf1-4efa-a370-07cc1e4be169"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3), by inserting <quote>Tribal,</quote> after <quote>local,</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6fea55c2-c025-4c89-885d-aca4ab79ed67"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (4), by striking <quote>could provide</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting <quote>is necessary to provide the scientific understanding needed to improve and expand the earthquake early warning system.</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcdda37a9-d698-43f4-9c6a-c7fd3ad48fc5"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (8), by striking <quote>cave-ins</quote> and inserting <quote>collapse</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfda9419a-345a-48ed-b62f-19e45fd1d9da"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (9)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id276449d8-8fa4-4ceb-9252-1dca8c7a7fc4"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first sentence, by striking <quote>and local</quote> and inserting <quote>local, and Tribal government</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbc5a4a51-7bc7-41fc-af9b-de773d7df2e1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the second sentence, by striking <quote>transfer knowledge and information to</quote> and inserting <quote>exchange knowledge and information between</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7ff02fd2-e537-4c0f-818b-c67f5d0f213a"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the third sentence, by striking <quote>specifications, criteria</quote> and inserting <quote>guidelines, codes, standards</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida600d260-a025-4dc4-b0c1-7afd5b9d1eb2"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (12)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3e2fa360-a662-4a8b-9689-d082e81681e6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the second sentence—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id432805fd-58e0-41aa-aa11-ecad7f1f9fd3"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>When earthquakes occur, the built environment is generally</quote> and inserting <quote>Relatively newer buildings and infrastructure have generally been</quote>; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbf622cd2-9995-4756-ab12-ef062d8b0bb9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and is</quote> and inserting <quote>when earthquakes occur, but most are</quote>; and</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idaea225ff-aeef-47a4-8fb1-f24a56ca08f8"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following: <quote>In addition, buildings and infrastructure built to older codes and standards may pose significant risk of injury, loss of life, or irreparable damage. A 2021 report submitted to Congress pursuant to section 8(b), as amended by section 5 of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2018 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/115/307">Public Law 115–307</external-xref>), by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (FEMA P2090/NST SP–1254) provides recommendations for improving post-earthquake functional recovery time of the built environment to support community resilience goals and many of these recommendations still need to be implemented.</quote>; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id161c8437-eb88-42d4-97f5-a38f95b6b474"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (13)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id74a209cc-79a5-4738-9af8-1ca8da9b03c8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first sentence, by inserting <quote>in 2011</quote> after <quote>a study</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide9a6c372-1fa4-4160-a821-2ce53af707a3"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the second sentence, by inserting <quote>(in 2011 dollars)</quote> after <quote>$300,000,000</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id175e9018-8daa-4c43-a831-ada82c1460e9"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following: <quote>The cost of actual seismic retrofits to reduce known risks is not included in such valuation.</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="id923d63fc-74f1-416c-a8e9-dbcb609a8ba2" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>3.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Modification of purpose</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7702">42 U.S.C. 7702</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1453d34c-c58a-45e4-b49f-56d1452fe317"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5269083c-beba-4a61-98fc-e3024e9d9274"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and local</quote> and inserting <quote>, local, and Tribal government</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id548b9805-e4a6-41e8-a563-31fd13e7bc8d"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>locations and structures</quote> and inserting <quote>buildings and infrastructure</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id237a805a-0712-4ff5-945a-fe498661fdd0"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id94bd5e12-cdd1-40cd-8170-b15e1a9b8b38"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and construction</quote> and inserting <quote>, construction, evaluation, and retrofitting</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfb89e51c-7576-4453-96a9-8a0a205d69f8"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>housing and care facilities for vulnerable populations,</quote> after <quote>occupancy buildings,</quote>; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id88376218-0b1d-44c3-91b6-247a0073a251"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (4)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfd172806-883b-475a-81ba-dffcb95e11d1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and local</quote> and inserting <quote>, local, and Tribal government</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1d862a7a-f35a-453a-91e9-3a35670cbe55"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>encourage consideration of</quote> and inserting <quote>incorporate</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="ide98f347d-a873-4db4-a587-b6c4f3a731a4" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>4.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Modification of definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 4 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7703">42 U.S.C. 7703</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idda064cf7-cdde-4c01-93a3-9d82545798ef"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3), by inserting <quote>, including secondary effects such as earthquake-caused tsunamis</quote> after <quote>earthquakes</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1e6c4473-5cff-45ba-9011-8092dc10ddbc"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id50fe5445-d2d0-4d68-be6d-c8cb3ed0a407" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf488f7e6-9d5a-43a4-99fa-f42aaf3ca155"><enum>(11)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Tribal government</term> has the meaning given the term <quote>tribal government</quote> in section 421 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/2/658">2 U.S.C. 658</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide82f6140-9273-4efc-9f5a-32d554b522d5"><enum>(12)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>functional recovery</term> means a post-earthquake performance state in which a building or lifeline infrastructure system is maintained, or restored, to safely and adequately support the basic intended functions associated with the pre-earthquake use or occupancy of a building, or the pre-earthquake service level of a lifeline infrastructure system. </text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf44440e4-cece-4794-888a-40b58c08494c"><enum>(13)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>earthquake forecast</term> means a statement of probabilities that 1 or more earthquakes within a clearly specified magnitude range may occur within a specified time interval and geographic region.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="id14e07635-0ee3-429b-bfd6-6c415e64f0e4" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>5.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Improvements to National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6984dcbe-eb06-4472-85ce-a1bb319440f9"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Program activities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a)(2) of section 5 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7704">42 U.S.C. 7704</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4b3d29fe-4714-4088-943d-1830c5d13908"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idac095555-8c79-41af-94d3-e8f5b825913a"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter before clause (i)—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id53b4e7fc-9877-4552-b0c4-7a5ef1bc1f91"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and local</quote> and inserting <quote>local, and Tribal</quote>; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id118b943b-64d0-4f2d-9d8b-9b15568c9a1b"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and constructing</quote> and inserting <quote>, designing, constructing, evaluating, and retrofitting</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0a405340-4717-4795-b82c-6bec80499e28"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by amending clause (ii) to read as follows:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2fed220f-86bf-426f-aa5b-a89a088204a3" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ideef0bda0-6523-40bf-92be-beffeba37ff6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">development of standards, guidelines, and voluntary standards, guidelines, and consensus codes for earthquake hazards reduction for buildings, structures, and lifeline infrastructure, including post-earthquake recovery-based performance objectives that address reoccupancy and downtime of community-prioritized buildings, structures, and services provided by lifeline infrastructure;</text></clause><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2785c25c-7a3c-4b61-bed8-109c3039a490"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (iii), by striking <quote>and hazards reduction; and</quote> and inserting <quote>functional recovery, and other hazards reduction topics;</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3f2e9afc-2fdf-499b-8382-8a51f32b44fe"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (iv)—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id86024096-e8db-4f94-a17d-dbe195738934"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>and maintaining</quote> after <quote>publishing</quote>;</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id989bf8dc-09dd-4b23-b20a-ffc3ba3ac8c4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>in coordination with the National Tsunami Hazards Mitigation Program, tsunami susceptibility,</quote> after <quote>liquefaction susceptibility,</quote>; and </text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfdb5acaa-5894-4b29-b432-c46b44bb6c31"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>; and</quote> and inserting a semicolon; and</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id42dcad00-9a1d-4542-80f7-fef81755decc"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida1cdaa13-ba23-468e-b246-927f87af7890" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id36238c2b-e8d5-44b2-946c-9402292dadb9"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">subject to the availability of funds, development of best practices and guidelines to create an inventory of and conduct seismic performance evaluations of buildings, structures, and lifeline infrastructure with high seismic risk, especially those that are critical to community resilience; and </text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6733b2b7-b15c-4c45-94d9-489921b1b6ee"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">subject to the availability of funds, the provision of technical assistance upon request by a State, local, or Tribal government regarding—</text><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id12dbf471-cec6-4908-8029-59c97bf2f05b"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the creation of an inventory of buildings, structures, and lifeline infrastructure;</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc694baff-b971-4742-a2af-6925842ed348"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the performance of seismic performance evaluations; and</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id32508393-b77e-44c3-8120-b2bd69eefd5d"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">cost-effective best practices for retrofitting existing buildings, structures, and lifeline infrastructure.</text></subclause></clause><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idae545890-e6a5-44bc-8e72-dd1331262db6"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (C), by striking <quote>; and</quote> and inserting a semicolon;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id366d817e-ab58-49a6-9163-7e6060d87b0d"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (E); and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id493fb5b7-5101-4c41-a9b4-9419b224e5bc"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfba495e6-a9b1-43c4-a5d6-041aa9313315" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0a801fd7-eb5e-4e19-98d3-05e25e13fa85"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">improve the understanding of—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5dbe61e3-b070-484b-8874-9539f810b63d"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the multiple hazards associated with earthquakes, including liquefaction, tsunamis, landslides, and structural fires; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcdb7b9f1-1a11-473e-bb3f-48cfc193686d"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">potential mitigation measures for such hazards; and </text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id57d1b4cb-2416-4ef4-88df-d064255070fb"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duties of Interagency Coordinating Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a)(3)(D)(ii) of such section is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id734cd85c-03a2-486d-9191-44ed7eaa0f3d"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subclause (V), by inserting <quote>and associated secondary hazards</quote> before the period at the end; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9e00b26c-bb04-4723-bcd5-b538cdc49e78"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id832643fd-a4ef-4f9a-b827-e63ee01f8322" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id799b017f-fcaa-4dae-ab18-3f7e96eceea7"><enum>(VIII)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coordinating with the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission on the timely broadcasting of emergency alerts generated by the earthquake early warning system.</text></subclause><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5ea385b9-6964-42dd-b40b-7cd72d5822d6"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Biennial report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a)(4)(A) of such section is amended by striking <quote>under paragraph (3)(D)(i)(I)</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>under paragraph (3)(D)(ii)(I)</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf1dc7be9-ab8e-4f43-8864-052311b0e4ca"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Advisory committee</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a)(5)(A) of such section is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id39ec7fe7-e729-47c4-8490-24c52b0c1584"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>the Chair of the Scientific Earthquake Studies Advisory Committee and</quote> after <quote>including</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id796e2d0f-ae90-4c59-8ad0-c53ac5673465"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and local government</quote> and inserting <quote>, local, and Tribal governments</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idced722cc-9912-4095-a422-b7776eb8abd2"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Lead agency for responsibilities of Program agencies</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b)(1) of such section is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1027c8d4-7b11-4734-ab93-e7d64225eaa2"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>and local</quote> and all that follows through the semicolon at the end and inserting the following: <quote>local, and Tribal governments, national standards and model building code organizations, architects and engineers, and others with a role in planning, designing, constructing, evaluating, and retrofitting buildings and lifeline infrastructure;</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7af3b04b-b9f7-4fb5-8567-a7bfdef4270c"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraphs (C) and (D) as subparagraphs (F) and (G), respectively; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8ca92083-63c2-46a0-b8e3-c152d893c17c"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idab80773f-d0d9-40f2-ba9a-cfad589c4b16" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id141861cc-a81c-4a0a-9e58-e24fab450170"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">improve the understanding of earthquake-caused fires and support the development of engineering tools and construction methods that mitigate the risk of fire following earthquakes;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida9b6fd90-5ef1-4123-9aa9-157a74167f1e"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">develop, in coordination with the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, best practices and guidelines for a State, local, or Tribal government to create an inventory of buildings, structures, or lifeline infrastructure that are critical to community resilience or otherwise have high seismic risk;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id30fd9d49-a51c-4bf5-bd09-39c96cb9a8fb"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide, in coordination with the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, technical assistance to a State, local, or Tribal government requesting such assistance with respect to the creation of an inventory of buildings, structures, or lifeline infrastructure; </text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id37da6679-44e6-46b7-a96b-3e9672fa092f"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Responsibilities of Federal Emergency Management Agency</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b)(2) of such section is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id66403d7c-58d0-4bed-9863-ebee78034bf8"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id40d3e841-c5a2-4fb2-ba43-f813169d8b4d"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (i)—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd0e6f62d-0354-4944-b0bc-1744d55fc6da"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>and Tribal governments</quote> after <quote>States</quote>;</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id996973ff-19c7-4903-8e27-6077aaa307a4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>and performance evaluations</quote> after <quote>safety inspections</quote>; and </text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8a62c81f-acd9-424d-bc13-8c28984d25b4"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>and improve post-earthquake functional recovery</quote> after <quote>seismic safety</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide27c8681-de4d-459f-a0cb-9b2584c06c37"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (ii), by inserting <quote>, including Tribal entities,</quote> after <quote>appropriate audiences</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id170fe49d-95ab-48cc-8e4a-af469d83420a"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (iii)—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9d319780-af1c-46b6-a117-99fcc3427978"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>of seismic resistant</quote> and inserting <quote>to all appropriate audiences, including Tribal governments, of</quote>; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8cde0cd3-e76d-41e0-a8a7-55335908be96"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>that enhance seismic safety, improve post-earthquake functional recovery, and reduce losses from earthquakes</quote> after <quote>and lifeline infrastructure</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc6ae8706-3545-426b-8b57-808f7f66d1b9"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (iv)—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida61a3395-2ab0-406e-a95f-1837afc9dd92"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in striking <quote>and local</quote> and inserting <quote>, local, and Tribal</quote>; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4e07e516-3abc-4062-96f4-06ea7b900952"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>; and</quote> and inserting a semicolon;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idae750dc5-6c58-4f17-ae3a-2b42e477970b"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating clause (v) as clause (vi); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida77adbcd-725b-4826-a553-6fb9ec51eb96"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after clause (iv) the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id93b5dc23-c658-4df8-9420-89d0bce292ae" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida75b8919-f5dd-4186-afe6-6c983523beb8"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall provide technical assistance to State, local, or Tribal governmental entities in the creation of evacuation plans in the event of an earthquake, landslide, tsunami, or other earthquake-related hazard; and</text></clause><after-quoted-block display="yes">; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5f57a0ca-fac2-4665-b212-326505c7c501"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id74f0c622-7f2a-4764-8f6f-21e18aec82b8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the subparagraph heading, by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">and Tribal</header-in-text></quote> after <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">State</header-in-text></quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0c4a6dd3-8dc5-45fa-8c4f-a537c04ca236"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter before clause (i), by inserting <quote>or Tribal government</quote> after <quote>State</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida70d57eb-5eb3-4e30-a75f-9ecce447bb63"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (i), by striking <quote>safety</quote> and inserting <quote>performance, community resilience, or public awareness</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4e24dc9b-541e-4600-a033-34a38f26c5bb"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Responsibilities of United States Geological Survey</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b)(3) of such section is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idda3a9af6-ba2d-4693-8274-16c55a423f20"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>and local</quote> and inserting <quote>, local, and Tribal</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idff977638-43ae-4933-9d11-d66a9764e480"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (C), by inserting <quote>, the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission,</quote> after <quote>Agency</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id466a6042-5ee3-47d0-9962-069091376e73"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraphs (D) through (K) as subparagraphs (I) through (P), respectively;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfaf23894-012d-4914-a713-cd7a5d71a333"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1343b2a0-5b70-4581-85cc-c514e7c1ed17" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7ad629cc-8de7-43f0-a447-001e5d0895b7"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinate with the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on data sharing and resource allocation to support a timely response to oceanic earthquakes and tsunamis;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddb5f3597-a377-4a44-8e5d-dde470d59d61"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in consultation with the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission, ensure that earthquake alerts and early warnings are broadcast as rapidly and reliably as possible, in the predominant languages in the affected region, to ensure maximum warning time for nearby persons;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6c040d32-aac7-41d6-af97-5c0e33e9e4a5"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">expand the earthquake early warning system within and to additional high risk hazard areas, including making improvements as practicable to improve detection and increase the time between warning messages and perceptible ground motion;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2e5481f6-2612-4e98-ad49-dc87ed639f1a"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinating with affected State and Tribal governments on earthquake early warning system improvements;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida3f5a68e-6c92-4b89-b9a7-ff757a9a4e56"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">issue earthquake forecasts, when appropriate, for aftershocks associated with significant earthquakes in the United States;</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9a530e60-3cd4-4133-928d-fdd1f8fd3896"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (I), as redesignated by paragraph (3), by inserting <quote>the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission,</quote> after <quote>Agency,</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida4065f40-8098-47a5-9a21-b05220a9e124"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (L), as redesignated by paragraph (3), by striking <quote>; and</quote> and inserting a semicolon;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8c1672f8-250a-4b2b-8e29-c62c59dfccd8"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (M), as redesignated by paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida435ffe7-413b-457e-9367-c84ee759ed1a"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (O), as redesignated by paragraph (3), by inserting <quote>maps of natural hazards associated with earthquakes and</quote> after <quote>including</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ided7ad6e0-c562-40dc-b1c4-92feca977c5a"><enum>(h)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Responsibilities of National Science Foundation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b)(4)(A) of such section is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id19e5ea4b-6453-4a17-98fa-535d0e15efee"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (iii), by inserting <quote>including updated tsunami and liquefaction risk maps,</quote> after <quote>maps,</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id992d2e2e-8571-4e3b-9dac-b23ec9e4d690"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (vii), by striking <quote>Historically Black Colleges and Universities and those serving large proportions of Hispanics, Native Americans, Asian-Pacific Americans, and other underrepresented populations</quote> and inserting <quote>institutions described in section 371(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/20/1067q">20 U.S.C. 1067q(a)</external-xref>)</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="idbb397d42-5769-4332-938c-191775cabc37" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>6.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Seismic performance property standards</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 947 of the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7704a">42 U.S.C. 7704a</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id59e8a1bd-a6fa-47ac-95b4-5749f5f8a06b"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by striking <quote>safety</quote> both places it appears and inserting <quote>performance</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id03e1332e-615f-49fe-aea2-3cc95e661919"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b), by striking <quote>shake-related property damage</quote> and inserting <quote>seismic-related property damage to improve the post-earthquake functional recovery time</quote>.</text></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="id2ba11756-8cd2-4587-96e7-e9075638e4fb" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>7.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Seismic standards</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7705b">42 U.S.C. 7705b</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id762b6dbb-f7da-4bda-aed5-af72fbcf2742"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b), by striking <quote>under paragraph (1)</quote> and inserting <quote>under subsection (a)</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc2506d42-1d5e-475a-8a7d-f22fe2b366d1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd6ac88d5-e00e-469a-87be-faffe47e1ea4" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida4c783e1-93f0-4289-b8f5-834a4e3e42b7"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Implementation of recommendations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each Program agency, as part of their Program responsibilities, shall implement, within the Program activities authorized by this Act, the applicable recommendations in the report submitted pursuant to subsection (b) to improve the performance of the built environment in terms of post-earthquake reoccupancy and functional recovery time.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida6537557-ca25-43cd-b7d2-6a0ffa43a279"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Biennial reports</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida30a7b93-b4b7-431b-b5ec-639489c8f54d"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Biennial reports to Interagency Coordinating Committee</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No later than September 30, 2025, and not less frequently than once every 2 years thereafter, each Program agency shall submit to the Interagency Coordinating Committee a report on activities and progress made to support, promote, or advance the implementation of the recommendations included in the report submitted pursuant to subsection (b).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4a93350f-d6c2-47db-823e-8e375bea8619"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Inclusion in biennial reports of Interagency Coordinating Committee</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Interagency Coordinating Committee shall include the information received under paragraph (1) in each biennial report submitted under section 5(a)(4), including consideration of a prioritized work plan to coordinate activities among the Program agencies and the necessary Program budget to fully implement the recommendations described in paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="id78a833cc-a9bd-42c2-a103-d7f651ea12a6" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>8.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Improvements to post-earthquake investigations program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 11 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7705e">42 U.S.C. 7705e</external-xref>) is amended, in the matter before paragraph (1)—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1a20eee9-abc5-401d-90cd-6416796ff778"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first sentence, by inserting <quote>domestic and international</quote> after <quote>investigate major</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida75dc104-0c5d-4b15-bfee-8b8bb4a7e935"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the fifth sentence, by inserting <quote>Federal Emergency Management</quote> before <quote>Agency</quote>.</text></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="idd6772216-1972-425e-baec-1f43d01e2086" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>9.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc79fa76e-d7f4-4477-a64c-1a949092f1d7"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">General authorization for program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a)(8) of section 12 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7706">42 U.S.C. 7706</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7656467a-fd24-4314-80c3-ea50f31769ee"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (I), by striking <quote>, and</quote> and inserting a comma; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id55c30efa-ed1b-4f7c-b37c-bd0cd03686cb"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (J) the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc58cfd0f-28c4-42fb-80f5-bc162b9a984d" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3d48b6ab-b75b-41ea-8a5f-f27b322ce55b"><enum>(K)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$8,500,000 for fiscal year 2024,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id75c93b62-fb63-473a-8fff-3519f72e7171"><enum>(L)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$8,500,000 for fiscal year 2025,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id80eb28ab-9640-4bc0-bb6d-9ed2f1958532"><enum>(M)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$8,500,000 for fiscal year 2026,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc8c3e2cd-2dc0-4885-a99a-8c010afe4b44"><enum>(N)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$8,500,000 for fiscal year 2027, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd0adae4b-0c41-4e9d-8a4e-ef47c6b2d41d"><enum>(O)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$8,500,000 for fiscal year 2028,</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id49510e46-22b2-4993-80b4-47032188b8a0"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">United States Geological Survey</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b)(2) of such section is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida1a09213-f935-4770-8cb6-64254d2dce5c"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (I), by striking <quote>; and</quote> and inserting a semicolon;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id94f37c7d-b240-49ee-92df-2e56684bc90b"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (J), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd0e3a904-89a3-4a85-b3db-45d62ee046bf"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8a188bb4-c6db-48f7-93cb-3f7f6461166e" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id03da2dc4-f4fe-4459-9d3b-4f639ca6e0ae"><enum>(K)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$92,427,000 for fiscal year 2024, of which not less than $36,000,000 shall be made available for completion of the Advanced National Seismic System established under section 13;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida2361c69-ec37-496d-afd0-5a3c1380d4e7"><enum>(L)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$92,427,000 for fiscal year 2025, of which not less than $36,000,000 shall be made available for completion of the Advanced National Seismic System established under section 13;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc00f73f1-72a7-49b7-9ec0-af1501d098dd"><enum>(M)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$92,427,000 for fiscal year 2026, of which not less than $36,000,000 shall be made available for completion of the Advanced National Seismic System established under section 13;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id30d5f3c9-3d52-4369-8d85-a89684b85f60"><enum>(N)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$92,427,000 for fiscal year 2027, of which not less than $36,000,000 shall be made available for completion of the Advanced National Seismic System established under section 13; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id66467ef1-4e30-44b9-87b1-07b370d7dc66"><enum>(O)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$92,427,000 for fiscal year 2028, of which not less than $36,000,000 shall be made available for completion of the Advanced National Seismic System established under section 13. </text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb4abcd30-8640-4c63-83d0-9c0dc8acccea"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National Science Foundation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (c)(2) of such section is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4b5120b7-7f21-4959-8507-9d4739a303b6"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (I), by striking <quote>, and</quote> and inserting a comma;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8cb2c212-a30e-427b-8559-ba088b868ff4"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (J), by striking the period at the end and inserting a comma; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id777185e9-dcd1-4ce7-9c86-ef2809b68393"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb98f940a-28c0-482f-8fd8-b493480698e3" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide7c0ab25-fd7e-4ac2-ba42-39cdc981606f"><enum>(K)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$54,000,000 for fiscal year 2024,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id36f7397d-39f7-4a33-bec0-95e26ef9f685"><enum>(L)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$54,000,000 for fiscal year 2025,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id401bfcae-2562-4804-bc5a-3093398cbead"><enum>(M)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$54,000,000 for fiscal year 2026,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide88a2dcf-e33a-47cf-822f-bb3596826e9d"><enum>(N)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$54,000,000 for fiscal year 2027, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0d6b523d-a488-4a1e-82a2-c777d00c7b60"><enum>(O)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$54,000,000 for fiscal year 2028.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2731db73-fa05-4ed4-953e-07ca1e4a0b0a"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National Institute of Standards and Technology</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (d)(2) of such section is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idffed6ce4-1a7c-4010-86c9-d68b00554253"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (I), by striking <quote>, and</quote> and inserting a comma;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2f9b2fff-8f89-4372-b0ca-3779c0cef0d3"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (J), by striking the period at the end and inserting a comma; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id92f53649-6c85-4b52-88d2-16a87fc0309d"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (J) the following:</text><quoted-block id="idb4ef784b-3f9f-448e-a7c9-df9cc46355d8" changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" style="OLC" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8535e957-4d27-430b-ae16-88eba493093c"><enum>(K)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$5,900,000 for fiscal year 2024,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3cd2f9bb-c8f2-46d5-bda1-75e085b4b514"><enum>(L)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$5,900,000 for fiscal year 2025,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9bc09529-777e-4c40-b43c-9e49ca56f230"><enum>(M)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$5,900,000 for fiscal year 2026,</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9ce88ace-28d7-44a1-ad09-65cae9ead889"><enum>(N)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$5,900,000 for fiscal year 2027, and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="iddf50c5fe-74af-4b94-bcfa-9e45f754877f" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(O)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$5,900,000 for fiscal year 2028,</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block display="yes">.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section></legis-body><endorsement><action-date date="20251014">October 14, 2025</action-date><action-desc>Reported with an amendment</action-desc></endorsement></bill> 

