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U.S.GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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115THCONGRESS REPT.115-1107
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
REFORMING DISASTER RECOVERY ACT OF 2018
DECEMBER 22, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. HENSARLING, from the Committee on Financial Services,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 4557]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Financial Services, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 4557) to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development to provide disaster assistance to States and units of
general government under a community development block grant
disaster recovery program, and for other purposes, having consid-
ered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and
recommend that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Reforming Disaster Recovery Act of 2018.
SEC. 2. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT DISASTER RECOVERY PROGRAM.
(a) IN GENERAL.-Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
(42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
SEC. 123. CDBG-DISASTER RECOVERY ASSISTANCE.
(a) AUTHORITY; USE.-The Secretary may provide assistance under this section
to States, units of general local government, and Indian tribes for necessary ex-
penses for activities authorized under this title related to disaster relief, resiliency,
long-term recovery, restoration of infrastructure and housing, mitigation, and eco-
nomic revitalization in the most impacted and distressed areas resulting from a
major disaster declared pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.).
(b) TIMING.-
(1) DEADLINES FOR ALLOCATION OF AMOUNTS.-Except as provided in para-
graph (2), after the enactment of an Act making funds available for assistance
under this section, the Secretary shall allocate for grantees, based on the best
available data-
(A) not less than one-third of funds provided for assistance under this
section, within 60 days of the date of the enactment of such Act; and
(B) all remaining unallocated funds to be provided to grantees, within
180 days of such date of enactment.
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