[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4979 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]


        H.R.4979

                       One Hundred Ninth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
             the third day of January, two thousand and six


                                 An Act


 
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
 Act to clarify the preference for local firms in the award of certain 
                contracts for disaster relief activities.

    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 ``Local Community Recovery Act of 
2006''.

SEC. 2. USE OF LOCAL FIRMS AND INDIVIDUALS FOR DISASTER RELIEF 
              ACTIVITIES.

    Section 307 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5150) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: ``In carrying out this section, a contract or agreement may 
be set aside for award based on a specific geographic area.''.

SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that the Corps of Engineers should 
promptly implement the decision of the Government Accountability Office 
in solicitation W912EE-06-R-0005, dated March 20, 2006.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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