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RCED-94-293R 1 (1994-08-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackqp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ACX United States GAOu, General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-258200 August 31, 1994 The Honorable Richard J. Durbin Co-Chairman The Honorable Bill Emerson Co-Chairman Congressional Task Force on Disasters House of Representatives The occurrence of several large disasters since 1989--including hurricanes Hugo, Andrew, and Iniki and the Loma Prieta and Northridge earthquakes--has led to unprecedented increases in the cost of disaster assistance. Since fiscal year 1988, the Congress has appropriated $17 billion in supplemental appropriations alone for disaster relief. The federal government has absorbed a substantial part of the losses from past disasters and is likely to absorb large amounts in the future. This correspondence responds to your May 1994 request that we summarize our work related to federal disaster assistance. To respond to your request, we identified our products on disaster assistance issued since 1985 and reviewed the products for their content and relevance to your request. We focused on key findings, recommendations to agencies that have not been fully implemented, and matters for congressional consideration that are relevant to the Task Force. For those products recommending that an agency take action, we reviewed our documentation indicating whether and how the agency had responded. We then followed up, where appropriate, with the agency to update the status of actions taken on our recommendations. Enclosure I discusses the federal government's role in each phase of disaster assistance, including coordination with state and local governments. GAO/RCED-94-293R, GAO Work on Disaster Assistance

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