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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
116TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-575
PRELIMINARY DAMAGE ASSESSMENT IMPROVEMENT
ACT OF 2020
NOVEMBER 16, 2020.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and 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. 4358]
The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to whom
was referred the bill (H.R. 4358) to direct the Administrator of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency to submit to Congress a
report on preliminary damage assessment and to establish damage
assessment teams in the Federal Emergency Management Agency,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favor-
ably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as
amended do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
Purpose of Legislation ............................................................................................ 2
Background and Need for Legislation ................................................................... 3
Hearings ................................................................................................................... 3
Legislative H istory and Consideration .................................................................. 4
Committee Votes ...................................................................................................... 4
Com m ittee Oversight Findings .............................................................................. 4
New Budget Authority and Tax Expenditures ..................................................... 4
Congressional Budget Office Cost Estim ate ......................................................... 5
Perform ance Goals and Objectives ......................................................................... 5
Duplication of Federal Program s ............................................................................ 5
Congressional Earmarks, Limited Tax Benefits, and Limited Tariff Benefits ... 5
Federal M andates Statem ent ................................................................................. 5
Preemption Clarification ......................................................................................... 5
A dvisory Com m ittee Statem ent ............................................................................. 6
Applicability to Legislative Branch ....................................................................... 6
Section-by-Section Analysis of the Legislation ..................................................... 6
Changes in Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported ..................................... 6
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