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[H.R. 23 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.23

                       One Hundred Eighth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
           the seventh day of January, two thousand and three


                                 An Act


 
To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize 
     communities to use community development block grant funds for 
    construction of tornado-safe shelters in manufactured home parks.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

     This Act may be cited as the ``Tornado Shelters Act''.

SEC. 2. CDBG ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES.

    Section 105(a) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 
(42 U.S.C. 5305(a)) is amended--
        (1) in paragraph (22), by striking ``and'' at the end;
        (2) in paragraph (23), by striking the period at the end and 
    inserting a semicolon; and
        (3) by inserting after paragraph (23) the following new 
    paragraph:
        ``(24) the construction or improvement of tornado-safe shelters 
    for residents of manufactured housing, and the provision of 
    assistance (including loans and grants) to nonprofit and for-profit 
    entities (including owners of manufactured housing parks) for such 
    construction or improvement, except that--
            ``(A) a shelter assisted with amounts provided pursuant to 
        this paragraph may be located only in a neighborhood (including 
        a manufactured housing park) that--
                ``(i) contains not less than 20 manufactured housing 
            units that are within such proximity to the shelter that 
            the shelter is available to the residents of such units in 
            the event of a tornado;
                ``(ii) consists predominantly of persons of low and 
            moderate income; and
                ``(iii) is located within a State in which a tornado 
            has occurred during the fiscal year for which the amounts 
            to be used under this paragraph were made available or any 
            of the 3 preceding fiscal years, as determined by the 
            Secretary after consultation with the Director of the 
            Federal Emergency Management Agency;
            ``(B) such a shelter shall comply with standards for 
        construction and safety as the Secretary, after consultation 
        with the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, 
        shall provide to ensure protection from tornadoes;
            ``(C) such a shelter shall be of a size sufficient to 
        accommodate, at a single time, all occupants of manufactured 
        housing units located within the neighborhood in which the 
        shelter is located; and
            ``(D) amounts may not be used for a shelter as provided 
        under this paragraph unless there is located, within the 
        neighborhood in which the shelter is located (or, in the case 
        of a shelter located in a manufactured housing park, within 
        1,500 feet of such park), a warning siren that is operated in 
        accordance with such local, regional, or national disaster 
        warning programs or systems as the Secretary, after 
        consultation with the Director of the Federal Emergency 
        Management Agency, considers appropriate to ensure adequate 
        notice of occupants of manufactured housing located in such 
        neighborhood or park of a tornado; and''.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    In addition to any amounts otherwise made available for grants 
under title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 
U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), there is authorized to be appropriated for 
assistance only for activities pursuant to section 105(a)(24) of such 
Act $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2004.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.