[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3089 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3089

  To authorize the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management 
    Agency to make grants to local governments for flood mitigation 
                   projects, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 4, 2011

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To authorize the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management 
    Agency to make grants to local governments for flood mitigation 
                   projects, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Rebuilding the Economy and Limiting 
the Impacts of Expected Flooding Act of 2011'' or the ``RELIEF Act of 
2011''.

SEC. 2. FEMA GRANTS FOR FLOOD MITIGATION PROJECTS.

    (a) Authority To Make Grants.--The Administrator of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency may make grants to local governments for 
flood mitigation projects.
    (b) Applications.--To be eligible to receive a grant under this 
section, a local government shall submit to the Administrator an 
application that is in such form and contains such information as the 
Administrator may require.
    (c) Eligible Recipients.--A local government may apply for a grant 
under this section on its own, in coordination with other local 
governments, or in coordination with a State. In each case, a local 
government shall be the lead applicant for the grant.
    (d) Selection of Projects.--In selecting projects to receive grant 
assistance under this section, the Administrator shall give priority 
to--
            (1) projects that will resolve the greatest safety and 
        property hazards; and
            (2) projects with significant capacities for job creation.
    (e) Consultation.--The Administrator may consult with the Secretary 
of the Army and the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to a project 
receiving grant assistance under this section in order to employ any 
engineering data or design work that has been already been completed 
with respect to the project.
    (f) Federal Share.--The Federal share of the cost of a project 
carried out using grant assistance under this section may not exceed 90 
percent.
    (g) Relationship to Other Programs.--The Administrator may provide 
grant assistance to a local government for a flood mitigation project 
under this section without regard to the eligibility of the local 
government to receive financial assistance for the project under 
another Federal program.
    (h) Limitation on Grant Amounts.--A local government may not 
receive more than $5,000,000 in grants under this section in a fiscal 
year.
    (i) Local Government Defined.--In this section, the term ``local 
government'' has the meaning given that term in section 102 of the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5122).
    (j) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $100,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2012 through 2016.
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