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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
GP
116TH CONGRESS [REPT. 116-662
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
PREPAREDNESS AND RISK MANAGEMENT FOR EXTREME
WEATHER PATTERNS ASSURING RESILIENCE AND EF-
FECTIVENESS ACT OF 2019
DECEMBER 17, 2019.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. DEFAZIO, from the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure, submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 4347]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to whom
was referred the bill (H.R. 4347) to enhance the Federal Govern-
ment's planning and preparation for extreme weather and the Fed-
eral Government's dissemination of best practices to respond to ex-
treme weather, thereby increasing resilience, improving regional
coordination, and mitigating the financial risk to the Federal Gov-
ernment from such extreme weather, and for other purposes, hav-
ing considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amend-
ment and recommends that the bill do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
Purpose of Legislation ............................................................................................ 2
Background and Need for Legislation ................................................................... 2
Hearings ................................................................................................................... 3
Legislative History and Consideration ................................................................. 3
Committee Votes ...................................................................................................... 4
Com m ittee Oversight Findings .............................................................................. 4
New Budget Authority and Tax Expenditures ..................................................... 4
Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate ......................................................... 4
Performance Goals and Objectives ......................................................................... 6
Duplication of Federal Program s ............................................................................ 6
Congressional Earmarks, Limited Tax Benefits, and Limited Tariff Benefits ... 6
Federal M andates Statem ent ................................................................................. 6
Preemption Clarification ........................................................................................ 6
Advisory Com m ittee Statem ent .............................................................................. 7
Applicability to Legislative Branch ....................................................................... 7
Section-by-Section Analysis of the Legislation ..................................................... 7
Changes in Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported ..................................... 8
Com m ittee Correspondence ................................................................................... 9
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