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[H.R. 5641 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.5641

                    One Hundred Seventeenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
          the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-two


                                 An Act


 
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
   Act to increase the threshold for eligibility for assistance under 
  sections 403, 406, 407, and 502 of such Act, 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 ``Small Project Efficient and 
Effective Disaster Recovery Act'' or the ``SPEED Recovery Act''.
SEC. 2. SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE.
    (a) In General.--Section 422 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5189) is amended--
        (1) in subsection (a) by striking ``$35,000'' each place it 
    appears and inserting ``$1,000,000''; and
        (2) in subsection (b)(3)--
            (A) in the heading by inserting ``and Report'' after 
        ``Review''; and
            (B) by inserting ``and submit to the Committee on 
        Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 
        Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
        Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report regarding such 
        review, including any recommendations developed pursuant to 
        such review'' after ``under this section''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to any amounts appropriated after the date of 
enactment of this Act.
SEC. 3. AUDIT AND REVIEW.
    Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security shall conduct 
an audit, and submit to Congress a report, on whether there has been 
waste and abuse as a result of the amendment made under section 
2(a)(1).

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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