[House Document 109-53]
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109th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 109-53

 
                 REQUESTS FOR FY 2005 BUDGET AMENDMENTS

                               __________

                             COMMUNICATION

                                  from

                   THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

  REQUESTS FOR EMERGENCY FY 2005 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE 
  DEPARTMENTS OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND DEFENSE AND THE ARMY CORPS OF 
                               ENGINEERS




  September 7, 2005.--Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and 
                         ordered to be printed
                                           The White House,
                                      Washington, September 7, 2005
Hon. J. Dennis Hastert,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
    Dear Mr. Speaker: On September 2nd, I signed into law 
Public Law 109-61, the ``Emergency Supplemental Appropriations 
Act to Meet Immediate Needs Arising From the Consequences of 
Hurricane Katrina, 2005,'' which provided $10.5 billion in 
emergency supplemental funds for hurricane-related disaster 
relief.
    Due to the catastrophic nature of Hurricane Katrina, I am 
asking the Congress to consider the enclosed request, for an 
additional $51.8 billion, for emergency FY 2005 supplemental 
resources for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security 
and the Army Corps of Engineers.
    I hereby designate this proposal in the amount requested 
herein as an emergency requirement. This request responds to 
urgent needs associated with immediate response and recovery 
efforts associated with Hurricane Katrina in Alabama, 
Louisiana, Mississippi, and other affected areas.
    I urge the Congress to act expeditiously on this request to 
ensure that the Federal response to this disaster continues 
uninterrupted. I anticipate making a further request that will 
provide for additional response and recovery efforts after 
further assessing the impact of the hurricane.
    The details of this request are set forth in the enclosed 
letter from the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget.
            Sincerely,
                                                    George W. Bush.
               [Estimate No. 12, 109th Cong., 1st Sess.]

                 Executive Office of the President,
                           Office of Management and Budget,
                                 Washington, DC, September 7, 2005.
The President,
The White House.
    On September 2nd, you signed into law Public Law 109-61, 
the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act to Meet Immediate 
Needs Arising From the Consequences of Hurricane Katrina, which 
provided $10.5 billion in emergency supplemental funds for 
hurricane-related disaster relief.
    Submitted for your consideration are additional FY 2005 
emergency supplemental proposals, totaling $51.8 billion, for 
the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, and the Army 
Corps of Engineers. These funds are being requested to provide 
for immediate emergency response and recovery needs associated 
with this disaster.
    The size, scope, and complexity of this disaster are 
unprecedented and the immediate Federal response and recovery 
efforts to date have been extensive. There is still great 
uncertainty regarding the extent of the damage and the full 
cost of emergency response and recovery efforts. This proposed 
emergency supplemental request is based on agencies' 
commitments to date and the Administration's best assessment of 
additional requirements to ensure agencies are fully funded to 
continue immediate response and recovery efforts.
    The request would provide additional funds for Federal, 
State and local responders to continue life-saving and life-
sustaining missions by providing ongoing search and rescue, 
water, food, and medicine, while also taking appropriate 
actions to prevent exposure, crime and disease. More than 
75,800 response, rescue, recovery and law enforcement personnel 
are working around the clock to bring critical aid and support 
to the Gulf Coast region. The Federal Emergency Management 
Agency (FEMA) is working with Federal and State partners and 
voluntary organizations to ensure victims of Hurricane Katrina 
are relocated to safe shelters with life-sustaining 
commodities. Housing Task Forces are taking extraordinary 
measures to address transitional housing needs for disaster 
victims.
    In coordination with the Department of Health and Human 
Services (HHS), FEMA is providing mass care to disaster victims 
at shelters and medical units, and distributing vital 
medications and supplies, tetanus vaccines, and maintenance 
medications for diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and 
other conditions.
    The Department of Defense (DOD) has moved significant 
military resources into the Gulf States to aid in rescue and 
recovery. Maintaining law and order is a priority to assist 
recovery and evacuation efforts and deliver relief in a timely 
and effective manner. There are 15,000 active duty military 
personnel committed to this effort in addition to more than 
42,000 National Guard troops, nearly 4,000 Coast Guard, and 
additional Federal law enforcement personnel in Alabama, 
Louisiana and Mississippi.
    As described below and in more detail in the enclosures, 
the requests include the following:

Department of Homeland Security

     $50.0 billion for the Department of Homeland 
Security to enable FEMA to continue ongoing response and 
recovery efforts, including assistance to families and 
individuals so that they can be sheltered, fed, and provided 
with medical care. These funds will also support public 
assistance and debris removal in the affected areas, and 
response activities performed by other Federal agencies as 
assigned by FEMA pursuant to the Stafford Act. The request also 
includes the authority to transfer $100 million to FEMA's 
National Disaster Medical System in support of immediate 
hospital care for hurricane victims.

Department of Defense

     $1.4 billion for DOD to enable the Department to 
continue to cover the costs associated with deployment of 
military personnel to assist communities, save lives, and 
provide relief supplies. DOD's immediate crisis response costs 
include immediate facilities repairs of critical DOD property 
to restore functionality, evacuation of DOD personnel, debris 
clean-up, transportation costs, and emergency utility costs. 
Authority is also requested to transfer up to $6 million to the 
Armed Forces Retirement Home system to pay for costs associated 
with evacuating residents of retirement homes in affected 
areas.

Corps of Engineers

     $400 million to restore navigation locks and 
channels in the Gulf States and to continue repairs to pump 
stations and levees in the affected areas.
    Language is also proposed that would allow Federal agencies 
to use the emergency procurement authorities specified in the 
Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act for Hurricane Katrina 
relief efforts and would increase the micro-purchase threshold 
to $250,000.
    I anticipate recommending to you an additional request to 
provide for further response to this disaster, once more 
detailed estimates can be developed on the extent of damage and 
recovery needs.
    All of the requests in this transmittal fulfill known and 
urgent requirements that cannot reasonably be met under the 
current FY 2005 funding levels. I recommend that you designate 
the proposals contained in this transmittal as emergency 
requirements.
    I have carefully reviewed this proposal and am satisfied 
that it is necessary at this time. Therefore, I join the heads 
of the affected Departments and agencies in recommending you 
transmit the proposal to the Congress.
            Sincerely,
                                          Joshua B. Bolten,
                                                          Director.
    Enclosure.
                         DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE


                       Operation and Maintenance


                OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    In addition to amounts provided under this heading in the 
``Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act to Meet Immediate 
Needs Arising From the Consequences of Hurricane Katrina, 
2005'' and subject to the same terms and conditions, 
$1,400,000,000, of which not to exceed $6,000,000 may be 
transferred to ``Armed Forces Retirement Home'' for emergency 
hurricane expenses, notwithstanding any other provision of law.
    The $500 million already appropriated will support the 
Department of Defense's (DOD) efforts that have not been 
reimbursed by FEMA for the first two weeks of relief 
operations. Additional funds requested will support the 
continuation of DOD's immediate crisis response costs beyond 
the first two weeks. Funds would cover additional costs 
associated with deployment of military personnel to assist 
communities, save lives, and provide relief supplies as well as 
additional facilities repairs of critical DOD property to 
restore functionality, evacuation of DOD personnel, debris 
clean-up, transportation costs, and emergency utility costs.
    Authority is also requested to transfer up to $6 million to 
the Armed Forces Retirement Home system to pay for costs 
associated with evacuating residents of retirement homes in 
affected areas and providing them medical care, food, and 
lodging in temporary locations or at the Armed Forces 
Retirement Home--Washington facility.
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                    DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY


                  Emergency Preparedness and Response


                          DISASTER RELIEF FUND

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    For an additional amount for necessary expenses under the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $50,000,000,000. to remain available 
until expended. of which up to $100,000,000 may be transferred 
to and merged with ``Public Health Programs,'' Emergency 
Preparedness and Response, for the National Disaster Medical 
System to support medical care as authorized by the Public 
Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act 
of 2002, as amended (42 U.S.C. 300hh-11): Provided, That 
Congress designates the amounts, provided herein as an 
emergency requirement for this specific purpose.
    This request would provide an additional $50.0 billion for 
the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency 
Management Agency (FEMA) for disaster relief associated with 
Hurricane Katrina. This funding will support continuing 
response efforts, including assistance to families and 
individuals so that they can be sheltered, provided with 
emergency medical care, and receive other FEMA disaster 
assistance benefits. Additionally, the funding will support 
public assistance and debris removal in the affected areas, and 
response activities performed by other Federal agencies 
pursuant to mission assignments from FEMA under the Stafford 
Act. The request also includes the authority to transfer $100 
million to FEMA's National Disaster Medical System in support 
of short-term, definitive medical care for hurricane victims 
transferred to hospitals, an activity that falls outside of the 
Stafford Act. This request ensures that Federal disaster 
response and relief efforts will continue uninterrupted.
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                        ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS


                              Civil Works


                   OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, GENERAL

    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
General'' to dredge navigation channels and repair other Corps 
projects in the Gulf States affected by Hurricane Katrina, 
$200,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That Congress designates this amount as an emergency 
requirement for this specific purpose.
    This request would provide an additional $200 million to 
the Army Corps of Engineers to restore navigation locks and 
channels and other projects in the Gulf States that the Corps 
is authorized to maintain. The Corps would use these funds to 
dredge channels back to their operating depths existing prior 
to Hurricane Katrina, and repair flood and other projects.
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                        ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS


                              Civil Works


                 FLOOD CONTROL AND COASTAL EMERGENCIES

    For an additional amount for ``Flood Control and Coastal 
Emergencies,'' as authorized by section 5 of the Flood Control 
Act of August 16, 1941, as amended (33 U.S.C. 701), for 
emergency response to and recovery from coastal storm damages 
and flooding in the Gulf states caused by Hurricane Katrina, 
$200,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That Congress designates this amount as an emergency 
requirement for this specific purpose.
    This request would provide $200 million for the Flood 
Control and Coastal Emergencies account of the Army Corps of 
Engineers in order to continue repairs to pump stations and 
levees in southern Louisiana, Mississippi and other affected 
Gulf States. These emergency repairs are needed to facilitate 
the continued drainage of flooded areas, particularly in New 
Orleans.
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                           General Provision

    Sec.__. Emergency Procurement Authority to Support 
Hurricane Rescue and Relief Operations. For procurements of 
property or services determined by the head of an executive 
agency to be used in support of Hurricane Katrina rescue and 
relief operations--
    (a) the emergency procurement authority in subsection 
32A(c) of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 
U.S.C. 428a(c)) may be used; and
    (b) the amount specified in subsections (c), (d) and (f) of 
section 32 of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 
U.S.C. 428(c)) shall be $250,000.
    This proposal would allow all Federal agencies to use the 
emergency procurement authorities specified in the Office of 
Federal Procurement Policy Act for Hurricane Katrina relief 
efforts and would increase the micro-purchase threshold to 
$250,000.

                                  
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