[House Document 106-21]
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106-21


 
                       EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL
                    APPROPRIATIONS FOR FEMA AND SBA

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                             COMMUNICATION

                                  from

                   THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

  A REQUEST FOR EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FEDERAL 
   EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY AND THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION




  February 23, 1999.--Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and 
                         ordered to be printed
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                                           The White House,
                                     Washington, February 16, 1999.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives.
    Sir: In accordance with provisions of P.L. 105-277, the 
Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations 
Act, 1999, I hereby request the following:
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
     Disaster relief: $453,000,000
Small Business Administration (SBA)
     Disaster loans program account: $65,000,000
    These funds will allow FEMA and SBA to provide immediate 
assistance to victims of severe winter storms in Alabama, New 
York, and Indiana, and recent tornadoes in Tennessee and 
Arkansas. Funds will also be used for requirements resulting 
from previously declared disasters and from anticipated 
disaster activity in the remaining months of the current fiscal 
year.
    I hereby designate the above requests as emergency 
requirements pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
    The details of these actions 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.
                 Executive Office of the President,
                           Office of Management and Budget,
                                 Washington, DC, February 16, 1999.
The President,
The White House.
    Submitted for your consideration are requests to make 
available emergency appropriations for the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency (FEMA) and the Small Business Administration 
(SBA). Your approval of these requests would make available 
previously appropriated funds to address the needs of victims 
of severe winter storms in Alabama, New York, and Indiana, and 
recent tornadoes in Tennessee and Arkansas.
    P.L. 105-277, the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency 
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, provided $906 million in 
emergency funding for FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund and $101 
million for SBA's Disaster Loan Program contingent upon the 
President submitting a budget request to the Congress and 
designating the entire amount requested as an emergency 
requirement. These requests would make available $518 million--
$453 million for FEMA and $65 million for SBA--to address the 
immediate needs of the affected States, and also to cover 
requirements from previously declared disasters and anticipated 
disasters in the remaining months of the current fiscal year.
    I recommend that you designate these requests as emergency 
requirements in accordance with section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended. No further congressional action will be required.
    I have carefully reviewed these proposals and am satisfied 
that they are necessary at this time. Therefore, I join the 
FEMA Director and the SBA Administrator in recommending that 
you make the requested funds available by signing the enclosed 
letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
            Sincerely,
                                            Jacob J. Lew, Director.
    Enclosure.

Emergency Appropriations: Amounts Previously Appropriated Made Available 
                            by the President

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA):
    Disaster relief.....................................    $453,000,000
Small Business Administration (SBA):
    Disaster loans program account......................     $65,000,000

    Division B, Title IV, of P.L. 105-277, the Omnibus 
Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 
1999, provided $906 million and $101 million, respectively, to 
FEMA and SBA contingent upon the President submitting a budget 
request to the Congress and designating the entire amount 
requested as an emergency requirement. None of these funds have 
yet been designated as an emergency requirement and made 
available.
    A total of $518 million--$453 million for FEMA and $65 
million ($35 million for loan subsidies and $30 million for 
administrative expenses) for SBA--is required to provide 
assistance to victims of severe winter storms in Alabama, New 
York, and Indiana, and recent tornadoes in Tennessee and 
Arkansas. Funds will also be used to cover requirements from 
previously declared disasters and anticipated disasters in the 
remaining months of the current fiscal year.

                                  
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