[House Document 105-234]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



105th Congress, 2d Session  - - - - - - - - - - House Document 105-234


 
          EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION REQUEST, FY 1998

                               __________

                             COMMUNICATION

                                  from

                   THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

  HIS REQUESTS FOR AN EMERGENCY FY 1998 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF 
    $1,632.2 MILLION FOR DISASTER RELIEF ACTIVITIES OF THE FEDERAL 
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, AND ACCOMPANYING AMENDMENT, PURSUANT TO 31 
                              U.S.C. 1107





   March 24, 1998.--Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and 
                         ordered to be printed

                                           The White House,
                                        Washington, March 24, 1998.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives.
    Sir: I ask Congress to consider the enclosed request for an 
emergency FY 1998 supplemental appropriation of $1,632.2 
million for disaster relief activities of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency (FEMA). Accompanying this request is an FY 
1999 budget amendment that reduces my pending FY 1999 request 
for FEMA by the same amount.
    The FY 1998 supplemental is being requested as a contingent 
appropriation which would be available upon my submittal of a 
subsequent budget request to the Congress and designating the 
entire amount requested as an emergency requirement.
    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 his comments and observations.
            Sincerely,
                                                William J. Clinton.
    Enclosure.





                            
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