[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3466 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3466

     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
                            Assistance Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 31, 2009

   Mr. Cao introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
                            Assistance Act.

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

SECTION 1. SPECIAL RULE FOR CERTAIN MAJOR DISASTERS.

    Section 406 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Special Rule for Certain Major Disasters.--
            ``(1) Consolidation of funds.--Notwithstanding subsection 
        (a)(1), if the President determines that there is extensive and 
        widespread damage and destruction resulting from a major 
        disaster, the President may allow a State or local government 
        or a private nonprofit facility, as the case may be, to 
        consolidate contributions received as a lump sum payment to 
        repair, restore, reconstruct, or replace more than one public 
        facility. A State or local government and a private nonprofit 
        facility may choose whether or not to repair, restore, 
        reconstruct, or replace one or more of such facilities after 
        assessing the need for such facilities after such major 
        disaster.
            ``(2) Federal share.--Notwithstanding subsection (c)(1)(A), 
        the Federal share for a public facility shall be an amount 
        equal to 100 percent of the Federal estimate of the cost of 
        repairing, restoring, reconstructing, or replacing the 
        facilities and of management expenses.''.
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