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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 14, 2025)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="https://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. SWALWELL:H.R. 403.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, of the United States Constitution,specifically Clause 18 (relating to the power to make alllaws necessary and proper for carrying out the powers vestedin congress).[Page H149]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Preventing Our Next Natural Disaster Act</strong></p><p>This bill modifies the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).</p><p>Specifically, the bill</p><ul><li>increases the amount that may be set aside from FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund for BRIC from 6% to 15% of certain disaster grant amounts;</li><li>authorizes FEMA to set aside 2% from the BRIC 15% set-aside for assistance with community planning and capacity building;</li><li>provides a 90% federal cost share for BRIC grants to environmental justice communities, and increases the maximum number of people in small impoverished communities, which are also eligible for the 90% BRIC federal cost share; and</li><li>authorizes FEMA to develop guidance regarding how to incorporate climate change into the National Risk Index, benefit-cost analyses, and improved codes, specifications, and standards to address natural hazards.</li></ul><p>FEMA must</p><ul><li>prioritize BRIC assistance for high hazard risk communities, environmental justice communities, communities with low tax revenue base per capita, and communities with a low rate of code adoption and enforcement and infrastructure maintenance expenditures;</li><li>provide community outreach on project planning and grant administration; and</li><li>establish a central federal database to consolidate funding data collected by all local, state, and federal agencies involved in post-disaster response and pre-disaster mitigation spending and categorize the data by type of project, funding source, and hazard types using a user-friendly database and interactive map.</li></ul>]]></text>
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