1.This Act may be cited as the
Critical Infrastructure Earthquake Preparedness Act of
2011
.
2.Grant program to
assist trauma center hospitals and airports to withstand earthquakes
(a)Not later than 180 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency shall establish a program under which the Administrator is authorized to
make grants to State and local governments to assist projects that improve the
ability to withstand an earthquake of one or both of the following
facilities:
(1)A
trauma center hospital in a hazardous seismic zone.
(2)An airport in a
hazardous seismic zone.
(b)In making a grant
under subsection (a), the Administrator shall consider, with respect to a
proposed project, the following:
(1)The vulnerability
to an earthquake of the facility to be improved.
(2)The size of the
population served by the facility to be improved.
(3)The availability
of similar facilities in the area surrounding the facility to be
improved.
(4)The ability to
withstand an earthquake of the facility to be improved, if the proposed project
is not carried out.
(5)The ability of the
proposed project to be carried out without Federal assistance.
(c)
(1)Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Federal share of
the cost of a project carried out using grant funds made available under
subsection (a) may not exceed 90 percent.
(2)The
Administrator may treat, with respect to a project, the percentage specified in
paragraph (1) as 100 percent, if—
(A)the Administrator
determines there is substantial need for the project; and
(B)the Administrator
determines that the project will not otherwise be carried out.
(d)Comprehensive
strategic response planThe
Administrator shall require each State and local government that receives a
grant under subsection (a), as a condition of the grant, to submit to the
Administrator a comprehensive strategic earthquake response plan for the
facility with respect to which the grant was made. Each State and local
government may use not more than 5 percent of grant funds made available under
subsection (a) to meet the requirement of this subsection.
(e)Report on use of
grant fundsThe Administrator shall require each State and local
government that receives a grant under subsection (a), as a condition of the
grant, to submit to the Administrator each fiscal year during which grant funds
are received a report that—
(1)lists and
describes the activities carried out using grant funds; and
(2)describes and
analyzes the impact of the activities.
(f)In
this section, the following definitions apply:
(1)The term airport has the
meaning given that term under section 47102(2) of title 49, United States Code,
except that the term is limited to airports located in the United
States.
(2)The term hazardous seismic zone means
an area determined by the Administrator, in consultation with the Director of
the United States Geological Survey, to have a high probability of experiencing
a severe earthquake.
(3)The term
trauma center hospital means a medical facility determined by the
Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services,
to—
(A)provide surgical
care to trauma patients;
(B)be located in the
United States;
(C)be obligated to treat all patients without
regard to ability to pay; and
(D)provide care to
more than 2,000 individuals admitted for shock trauma each year.
(g)Authorization of
appropriationsThere are authorized to be appropriated to the
Administrator to carry out this section such sums as may be necessary.