[House Document 104-183]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]




        104th Congress, 2d Session - - - - - - - - - - - - House 
Document 104-183


 
    REQUESTS FOR EMERGENCY FISCAL YEAR 1996 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

                               __________

                             COMMUNICATION

                                  from

                   THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

HIS REQUESTS FOR EMERGENCY FISCAL YEAR 1996 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS 
   FOR EMERGENCY EXPENSES RELATED TO RECENT NATURAL DISASTERS IN THE 
UNITED STATES AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, AND TO DESIGNATE THE AMOUNTS MADE 
       AVAILABLE AS AN EMERGENCY REQUIREMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 
 251(b)(2)(D)(i) OF THE BALANCED BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL 
          ACT OF 1985, AS AMENDED, PURSUANT TO 31 U.S.C. 1107

 


March 5, 1996.--Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered 
                             to be printed
                                           The White House,
                                         Washington, March 5, 1996.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
    Sir: I ask Congress to consider expeditiously the enclosed 
requests for emergency FY 1996 supplemental appropriations. The 
requests provide for emergency expenses related to recent 
natural disasters in the United States and the Virgin Islands. 
These devastating disasters include the severe winter flooding 
in the Pacific Northwest, the blizzard and subsequent flooding 
in the Northeast, and damaging hurricanes.
    I hereby designate the following requests as emergency 
requirements pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
          Department of Agriculture, Consolidated Farm Service 
        Agency, Emergency conservation program: $30,000,000;
          Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources 
        Conservation Service, Watershed and flood prevention 
        operations: $60,000,000;
          Department of Agriculture, Rural Utilities Service, 
        Emergency community water assistance program: 
        $5,000,000;
          Department of Agriculture, Rural Utilities Service, 
        Rural utilities assistance program: $6,000,000;
          Department of Agriculture, Rural Housing and 
        Community Development Service, Very low-income housing 
        repair grants: $1,100,000;
          Department of Agriculture, Rural Housing and 
        Community Development Service, Rural housing insurance 
        fund program account: $6,500,000;
          Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, National 
        forest system: $20,000,000;
          Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 
        Construction: $40,000,000;
          Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and 
        Atmospheric Administration, Construction: $10,000,000;
          Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers--Civil, 
        Operation and maintenance, general: $30,000,000;
          Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers--Civil, 
        Flood control and coastal emergencies: $135,000,000;
          Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land 
        Management, Construction and access: $4,242,000;
          Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land 
        Management, Oregon and California grant lands: 
        $19,548,000;
          Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, 
        Construction program: $9,000,000;
          Department of the Interior, United States Geological 
        Survey, Surveys, investigations, and research: 
        $1,176,000;
          Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife 
        Service, Construction: $20,505,000;
          Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 
        Construction: $33,601,000;
          Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
        Operation of Indian program: $500,000;
          Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
        Construction: $9,428,000;
          Department of the Interior, Office of Insular 
        Affairs, Assistance to territories: $2,000,000;
          Department of Transportation, Federal Highway 
        Administration, Federal-aid highways: $267,000,000;
          Small Business Administration, Disaster loans program 
        account: $100,000,000;
          Federal Emergency Management Agency, Disaster 
        assistance direct loan program account: $103,729,000.
    In addition, this transmittal includes $60 million in 
budget authority for the Department of Agriculture and $9 
million for the Department of the Interior that would be made 
available upon my transmittal of later budget requests to the 
Congress designating the specific amounts requested as 
emergency requirements, pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
    This transmittal also contains non-emergency requests for 
FY 1996 appropriations for the Departments of Agriculture, 
Energy, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and Veterans 
Affairs; the Office of National Drug Control Policy; and the 
Panama Canal Commission.
    The details of these requests are set forth in the enclosed 
letter from the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget. I concur with her comments and observations.
            Sincerely,
                                                William J. Clinton.
    Enclosure.