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B-271666 1 (1996-04-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobablnk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Office of the General Counsel B-271666 April 24, 1996 John P. Carey, Esq. General Counsel Federal Emergency Management Agency Washington, DC 20472 Dear Mr. Carey: This is in response to your March 28, 1996, letter requesting our opinion on whether it is appropriate for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to reimburse, from the President's Disaster Relief Fund, the hotel costs of 17 federal workers whose services were essential to performing urgent disaster relief efforts pursuant to the Stafford Act.1 The Director of FEMA, acting for the President, is authorized by statute to coordinate the federal government's disaster relief efforts. See 42 U.S.C. § 5170a (1994). The President has delegated to the Director of FEMA the authority to coordinate emergency management and assistance functions of the federal government. See § 4-203 of Executive Order 12148, July 20, 1979, as amended.2 Section 5122 of the Stafford Act defines major disaster as any natural catastrophe (including ... snowstorm...) ... which in the determination of the President causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant major disaster assistance under this chapter to supplement the efforts and available resources of States, local governments, and disaster relief organizations in alleviating the damage, loss, hardship, or suffering caused thereby. 42 U.S.C. § 5122 (1994). 1Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. § 5121 et seg. (1994). 2Exec. Order No. 12148, 3 C.F.R., 1979 Comp., p. 412. 307423

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