[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5870 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5870

 To revise the regulations regarding estimated cost of the assistance 
and localized impacts factors used by the Administrator of the Federal 
          Emergency Management Agency, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 30, 2012

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To revise the regulations regarding estimated cost of the assistance 
and localized impacts factors used by the Administrator of the Federal 
          Emergency Management Agency, 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 ``Disaster Declaration Improvement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CONSIDERATION OF FACTORS MAJOR DISASTER DECLARATION.

    (a) Revision of Existing Regulation.--Not later than 180 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency shall issue a revised rule for section 
206.48 of title 44, Code of Federal Regulations, to include additional 
factors regarding estimated cost of assistance and localized impacts in 
evaluating a request for a major disaster declaration.
    (b) Revised Factors.--Except as provided in this section, the 
revised rule shall be identical in its provisions to part 206 of the 
regulations in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this 
Act. Such rule shall amend subsection (a)--
            (1) in paragraph (1) by adding at the end the following: 
        ``We also consider this factor equally with the other 5 factors 
        described in this subsection.''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2) by adding at the end the following: 
        ``We also consider the budgetary resources available to local 
        and State governments to respond to and recover from such 
        disaster and the impact of the disaster on a small city or a 
        census-designated place with a population of less than 25,000 
        or a medium city with a population of less than 250,000 if 
        either is located within a large county with a population of 
        more than 1,000,000 and in a large State with a population of 
        more than 5,000,000 if the level of financial damage in such 
        city exceeds 10 percent of the city's general fund or $100 per 
        capita of the census-designated place or city.''
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