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Calendar No. 550
106TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 106-295
DISASTER MITIGATION ACT OF 1999
MAY 16, 2000.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire, from the Committee on
Environment and Public Works, submitted the following
REPORT
[to accompany S. 1691]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred the bill (S. 1691), to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize programs for
predisaster mitigation, to streamline the administration of disaster
relief, to control the Federal costs of disaster assistance, and for
other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill, as
amended, do pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT
This legislation amends the Stafford Act to authorize a new
predisaster hazard mitigation program (Project Impact), stream-
line management and reduce associated costs thereof, and make
other changes and clarifications to existing law. The authority pro-
vided in this 3-year authorization is intended to formally authorize
the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to encourage
and promote predisaster mitigation in different localities through-
out the country.
Background
The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance
Act originally was enacted in 1974 and amended in 1988 and 1993
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