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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 270 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To establish a Commission on Federal Natural Disaster Resilience and Recov- |
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| 6 | 6 | | ery to examine and recommend reforms to improve the efficiency and |
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| 7 | 7 | | effectiveness of the Federal Government’s approach to natural disaster |
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| 8 | 8 | | resilience and recovery, and for other purposes. |
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| 9 | 9 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 10 | 10 | | JANUARY28, 2025 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Mr. L |
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| 12 | 12 | | ANKFORDintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and |
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| 13 | 13 | | referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To establish a Commission on Federal Natural Disaster Re- |
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| 16 | 16 | | silience and Recovery to examine and recommend reforms |
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| 17 | 17 | | to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Federal |
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| 18 | 18 | | Government’s approach to natural disaster resilience and |
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| 19 | 19 | | recovery, and for other purposes. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 21 | 21 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Natural Disaster Resil-4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | ience and Recovery Accountability Act’’. 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | SEC. 2. COMMISSION ON FEDERAL NATURAL DISASTER RE-1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | SILIENCE AND RECOVERY. 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (a) D |
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| 31 | 31 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (1) C |
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| 33 | 33 | | OMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | means the Commission on Federal Natural Disaster 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | Resilience and Recovery established under subsection 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (b). 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (2) D |
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| 38 | 38 | | IRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | the Director of the Office. 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (3) N |
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| 41 | 41 | | ATURAL DISASTER.—The term ‘‘natural 10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | disaster’’ means— 11 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (A) a weather event relating to cold or hot 12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | weather, flood, earthquake, tornado, hurricane, 13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | or ice storm; and 14 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (B) an event meeting such other criteria as 15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | the Commission may determine appropriate. 16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (4) O |
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| 49 | 49 | | FFICE.—The term ‘‘Office’’ means the Of-17 |
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| 50 | 50 | | fice of Management and Budget. 18 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (b) E |
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| 52 | 52 | | STABLISHMENT.—There is established within 19 |
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| 53 | 53 | | the Office a Commission on Federal Natural Disaster Re-20 |
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| 54 | 54 | | silience and Recovery. 21 |
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| 55 | 55 | | (c) D |
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| 56 | 56 | | UTIES.—The duties of the Commission shall be 22 |
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| 57 | 57 | | to examine and recommend administrative and legislative 23 |
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| 58 | 58 | | reforms to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and budg-24 |
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| 59 | 59 | | et funding of programs and activities of Federal agencies 25 |
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| 60 | 60 | | supporting natural disaster resilience and recovery. 26 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (d) MEMBERSHIP.— 1 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (1) I |
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| 66 | 66 | | N GENERAL.—The Commission shall be 2 |
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| 67 | 67 | | composed of 15 members appointed by the Direc-3 |
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| 68 | 68 | | tor— 4 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (A) of which 1 shall be an employee of the 5 |
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| 70 | 70 | | Office; and 6 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (B) the remainder of which, to the extent 7 |
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| 72 | 72 | | practicable— 8 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (i) shall be an official, emergency 9 |
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| 74 | 74 | | manager, or emergency response provider 10 |
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| 75 | 75 | | from a State, local, or Tribal government, 11 |
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| 76 | 76 | | the private sector, or a nongovernmental 12 |
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| 77 | 77 | | organization; 13 |
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| 78 | 78 | | (ii) shall represent multiple geo-14 |
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| 79 | 79 | | graphic (including urban and rural) areas; 15 |
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| 80 | 80 | | and 16 |
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| 81 | 81 | | (iii) may include— 17 |
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| 82 | 82 | | (I) individuals from the emer-18 |
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| 83 | 83 | | gency management field and emer-19 |
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| 84 | 84 | | gency response providers, including 20 |
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| 85 | 85 | | fire service, law enforcement, haz-21 |
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| 86 | 86 | | ardous materials response, emergency 22 |
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| 87 | 87 | | medical services, and emergency man-23 |
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| 88 | 88 | | agement personnel, or organizations 24 |
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| 89 | 89 | | representing such individuals; 25 |
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| 93 | 93 | | (II) health scientists, emergency 1 |
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| 94 | 94 | | and inpatient medical providers, and 2 |
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| 95 | 95 | | public health professionals; 3 |
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| 96 | 96 | | (III) experts from the Federal 4 |
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| 97 | 97 | | Government and State, local, and 5 |
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| 98 | 98 | | Tribal governments and the private 6 |
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| 99 | 99 | | sector that represent standards-set-7 |
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| 100 | 100 | | ting and accrediting organizations, in-8 |
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| 101 | 101 | | cluding representatives from the vol-9 |
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| 102 | 102 | | untary consensus codes and standards 10 |
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| 103 | 103 | | development community, particularly 11 |
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| 104 | 104 | | individuals with expertise in the emer-12 |
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| 105 | 105 | | gency preparedness and response 13 |
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| 106 | 106 | | field; 14 |
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| 107 | 107 | | (IV) State, local, and Tribal gov-15 |
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| 108 | 108 | | ernmental officials with expertise in 16 |
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| 109 | 109 | | preparedness, protection, response, re-17 |
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| 110 | 110 | | covery, and mitigation, including adju-18 |
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| 111 | 111 | | tants general; 19 |
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| 112 | 112 | | (V) elected State, local, and Trib-20 |
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| 113 | 113 | | al governmental executives; 21 |
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| 114 | 114 | | (VI) experts in public and private 22 |
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| 115 | 115 | | sector infrastructure protection, cyber-23 |
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| 116 | 116 | | security, and communications; 24 |
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| 120 | 120 | | (VII) representatives of individ-1 |
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| 121 | 121 | | uals with disabilities and other popu-2 |
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| 122 | 122 | | lations with special needs; and 3 |
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| 123 | 123 | | (VIII) such other individuals as 4 |
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| 124 | 124 | | the Director determines appropriate. 5 |
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| 125 | 125 | | (2) E |
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| 126 | 126 | | XPERTISE.—In making appointments 6 |
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| 127 | 127 | | under paragraph (1), the Director shall give consid-7 |
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| 128 | 128 | | eration to individuals with expertise in— 8 |
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| 129 | 129 | | (A) natural disaster resilience and recov-9 |
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| 130 | 130 | | ery; 10 |
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| 131 | 131 | | (B) emergency management at the Fed-11 |
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| 132 | 132 | | eral, State, local, territorial or Tribal level; 12 |
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| 133 | 133 | | (C) critical infrastructure; 13 |
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| 134 | 134 | | (D) transportation; 14 |
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| 135 | 135 | | (E) housing; and 15 |
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| 136 | 136 | | (F) intergovernmental relations. 16 |
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| 137 | 137 | | (3) A |
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| 138 | 138 | | PPOINTMENT DEADLINE .—All appoint-17 |
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| 139 | 139 | | ments to the Commission shall be made not later 18 |
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| 140 | 140 | | than 120 days after the date of enactment of this 19 |
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| 141 | 141 | | Act. 20 |
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| 142 | 142 | | (4) C |
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| 143 | 143 | | HAIR AND VICE CHAIR.—The Commission 21 |
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| 144 | 144 | | shall have a chair and vice chair. The chair shall be 22 |
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| 145 | 145 | | a member of the Commission elected by an affirma-23 |
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| 146 | 146 | | tive vote of not less than 8 members of the Commis-24 |
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| 150 | 150 | | sion, and the vice chair shall be the Commission 1 |
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| 151 | 151 | | member who is an employee of the Office. 2 |
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| 152 | 152 | | (5) C |
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| 153 | 153 | | OMPENSATION.— 3 |
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| 154 | 154 | | (A) I |
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| 155 | 155 | | N GENERAL.—A member of the Com-4 |
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| 156 | 156 | | mission who is not an officer or employee of the 5 |
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| 157 | 157 | | Federal Government— 6 |
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| 158 | 158 | | (i) shall not be considered a Federal 7 |
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| 159 | 159 | | employee for any purpose other than for 8 |
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| 160 | 160 | | purposes of— 9 |
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| 161 | 161 | | (I) chapter 81 of title 5, United 10 |
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| 162 | 162 | | States Code (relating to compensation 11 |
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| 163 | 163 | | for injury); and 12 |
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| 164 | 164 | | (II) sections 2671 through 2680 13 |
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| 165 | 165 | | of title 28, United States Code, (relat-14 |
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| 166 | 166 | | ing to tort claims); and 15 |
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| 167 | 167 | | (ii) shall be allowed travel expenses, 16 |
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| 168 | 168 | | including per diem in lieu of subsistence, 17 |
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| 169 | 169 | | at rates authorized for employees of agen-18 |
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| 170 | 170 | | cies under subchapter I of chapter 57 of 19 |
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| 171 | 171 | | title 5, United States Code, while away 20 |
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| 172 | 172 | | from their homes or regular places of busi-21 |
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| 173 | 173 | | ness in the performance of services for the 22 |
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| 174 | 174 | | Commission. 23 |
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| 175 | 175 | | (B) F |
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| 176 | 176 | | EDERAL EMPLOYEES .—A member of 24 |
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| 177 | 177 | | the Commission who is an officer or employee 25 |
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| 181 | 181 | | of the Federal Government shall not receive any 1 |
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| 182 | 182 | | additional compensation for service as such a 2 |
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| 183 | 183 | | member. 3 |
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| 184 | 184 | | (e) A |
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| 185 | 185 | | DMINISTRATION.— 4 |
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| 186 | 186 | | (1) M |
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| 187 | 187 | | EETINGS.— 5 |
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| 188 | 188 | | (A) F |
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| 189 | 189 | | IRST MEETING.—The Commission 6 |
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| 190 | 190 | | shall first meet not later than 240 days after 7 |
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| 191 | 191 | | the date of the enactment of this Act. 8 |
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| 192 | 192 | | (B) O |
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| 193 | 193 | | THER MATTERS.—The Commission 9 |
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| 194 | 194 | | may, for the purpose of carrying out this Act, 10 |
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| 195 | 195 | | meet virtually or in-person to hold hearings, sit 11 |
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| 196 | 196 | | and act at times and places, take testimony, 12 |
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| 197 | 197 | | and receive evidence as the Commission con-13 |
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| 198 | 198 | | siders appropriate. 14 |
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| 199 | 199 | | (2) E |
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| 200 | 200 | | XECUTIVE BRANCH ASSISTANCE .—The 15 |
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| 201 | 201 | | heads of the following Federal agencies shall advise 16 |
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| 202 | 202 | | and consult with the Commission on matters within 17 |
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| 203 | 203 | | the respective areas of responsibility of the Federal 18 |
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| 204 | 204 | | agency: 19 |
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| 205 | 205 | | (A) The Small Business Administration. 20 |
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| 206 | 206 | | (B) The Department of Agriculture. 21 |
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| 207 | 207 | | (C) The Department of Homeland Secu-22 |
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| 208 | 208 | | rity. 23 |
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| 209 | 209 | | (D) The Department of Labor. 24 |
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| 210 | 210 | | (E) The Department of the Interior. 25 |
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| 214 | 214 | | (F) The Department of Energy. 1 |
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| 215 | 215 | | (G) The Department of Transportation. 2 |
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| 216 | 216 | | (H) The Department of Housing and 3 |
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| 217 | 217 | | Urban Development. 4 |
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| 218 | 218 | | (I) The Environmental Protection Agency. 5 |
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| 219 | 219 | | (J) The Department of Justice. 6 |
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| 220 | 220 | | (K) The Federal Emergency Management 7 |
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| 221 | 221 | | Agency. 8 |
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| 222 | 222 | | (L) The United States Army Corps of En-9 |
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| 223 | 223 | | gineers. 10 |
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| 224 | 224 | | (M) The Corporation for National and 11 |
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| 225 | 225 | | Community Service. 12 |
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| 226 | 226 | | (N) The Department of Commerce. 13 |
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| 227 | 227 | | (O) The Department of the Treasury. 14 |
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| 228 | 228 | | (P) The Office. 15 |
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| 229 | 229 | | (Q) Any other Federal agency, as deter-16 |
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| 230 | 230 | | mined by the Commission. 17 |
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| 231 | 231 | | (3) I |
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| 232 | 232 | | NFORMATION FROM FEDERAL AGENCIES .— 18 |
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| 233 | 233 | | The Commission may request from any Federal 19 |
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| 234 | 234 | | agency such information as the Commission con-20 |
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| 235 | 235 | | siders necessary to carry out its duties. Upon re-21 |
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| 236 | 236 | | quest of the chair of the Commission, the head of a 22 |
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| 237 | 237 | | Federal agency shall furnish such information to the 23 |
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| 238 | 238 | | Commission. 24 |
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| 242 | 242 | | (4) POSTAL SERVICES.—The Commission may 1 |
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| 243 | 243 | | use the United States mails in the same manner and 2 |
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| 244 | 244 | | under the same conditions as other departments and 3 |
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| 245 | 245 | | agencies of the Federal Government. 4 |
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| 246 | 246 | | (5) R |
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| 247 | 247 | | ULES OF PROCEDURE .—The chair and 5 |
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| 248 | 248 | | vice chair of the Commission shall, with an affirma-6 |
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| 249 | 249 | | tive vote of not less than 8 members of the Commis-7 |
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| 250 | 250 | | sion, establish written rules of procedure for the 8 |
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| 251 | 251 | | Commission, which shall include a quorum require-9 |
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| 252 | 252 | | ment to conduct official business. 10 |
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| 253 | 253 | | (6) S |
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| 254 | 254 | | TAFF.— 11 |
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| 255 | 255 | | (A) I |
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| 256 | 256 | | N GENERAL.—The chair of the Com-12 |
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| 257 | 257 | | mission may, without regard to the civil service 13 |
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| 258 | 258 | | laws and regulations, appoint and terminate 14 |
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| 259 | 259 | | support personnel as may be necessary to en-15 |
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| 260 | 260 | | able the Commission to perform the duties of 16 |
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| 261 | 261 | | the Commission. 17 |
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| 262 | 262 | | (B) E |
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| 263 | 263 | | XECUTIVE DIRECTOR.—The Commis-18 |
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| 264 | 264 | | sion, by an affirmative vote of not less than 8 19 |
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| 265 | 265 | | members of the Commission, shall appoint an 20 |
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| 266 | 266 | | executive director of the Commission. 21 |
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| 267 | 267 | | (C) C |
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| 268 | 268 | | OMPENSATION.—The chair of the 22 |
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| 269 | 269 | | Commission may fix the compensation of the 23 |
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| 270 | 270 | | executive director and other personnel without 24 |
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| 271 | 271 | | regard to chapter 51 and subchapter III of 25 |
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| 275 | 275 | | chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code, relat-1 |
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| 276 | 276 | | ing to classification of positions and General 2 |
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| 277 | 277 | | Schedule pay rates, except that the rate of pay 3 |
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| 278 | 278 | | for the executive director and other personnel 4 |
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| 279 | 279 | | may not exceed the rate payable for level V of 5 |
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| 280 | 280 | | the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of 6 |
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| 281 | 281 | | such title. 7 |
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| 282 | 282 | | (D) D |
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| 283 | 283 | | ETAIL OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOY -8 |
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| 284 | 284 | | EES.—A Federal Government employee may be 9 |
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| 285 | 285 | | detailed to the Commission, without reimburse-10 |
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| 286 | 286 | | ment, and such detail shall be without interrup-11 |
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| 287 | 287 | | tion or loss of civil service status or privilege. 12 |
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| 288 | 288 | | (f) R |
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| 289 | 289 | | EPORTS.— 13 |
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| 290 | 290 | | (1) F |
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| 291 | 291 | | INAL REPORT.—Not later than 2 years 14 |
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| 292 | 292 | | after the date of the first meeting of the Commis-15 |
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| 293 | 293 | | sion, the Commission shall submit to the Committee 16 |
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| 294 | 294 | | on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of 17 |
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| 295 | 295 | | the Senate and the Committee on Oversight and 18 |
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| 296 | 296 | | Government Reform of the House of Representatives 19 |
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| 297 | 297 | | a report describing recommendations to improve the 20 |
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| 298 | 298 | | Federal Government’s approach to natural disaster 21 |
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| 299 | 299 | | resilience and recovery. Such report shall include the 22 |
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| 300 | 300 | | following: 23 |
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| 301 | 301 | | (A) Specific and actionable policy rec-24 |
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| 302 | 302 | | ommendations, including legislative rec-25 |
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| 306 | 306 | | ommendations, as applicable, to improve the ef-1 |
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| 307 | 307 | | fectiveness of the Federal approach to natural 2 |
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| 308 | 308 | | disaster resilience and recovery, including con-3 |
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| 309 | 309 | | sideration of the 11 options presented in the re-4 |
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| 310 | 310 | | port of the Government Accountability Office 5 |
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| 311 | 311 | | entitled ‘‘Disaster Recovery: Actions Needed to 6 |
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| 312 | 312 | | Improve the Federal Approach’’, issued on No-7 |
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| 313 | 313 | | vember 15, 2022 (GAO–23–104956). 8 |
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| 314 | 314 | | (B) A comprehensive review all federally 9 |
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| 315 | 315 | | funded activities, Federal financial assistance 10 |
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| 316 | 316 | | and grants, and Federal agency programs re-11 |
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| 317 | 317 | | lated to natural disaster resilience and recovery 12 |
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| 318 | 318 | | using, to the extent practical, data systems and 13 |
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| 319 | 319 | | metrics consistently across the Federal agen-14 |
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| 320 | 320 | | cies, including budget information and the Fed-15 |
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| 321 | 321 | | eral program inventory established under sec-16 |
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| 322 | 322 | | tion 1122(a)(2)(B)(i) of title 31, United States 17 |
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| 323 | 323 | | Code, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of 18 |
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| 324 | 324 | | such activities and programs to meet estab-19 |
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| 325 | 325 | | lished goals and statutory requirements. 20 |
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| 326 | 326 | | (C) A complete list of all federally funded 21 |
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| 327 | 327 | | natural disaster resilience and recovery pro-22 |
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| 328 | 328 | | grams and activities and prior funding informa-23 |
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| 329 | 329 | | tion, program goals, statutory authority of such 24 |
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| 330 | 330 | | programs and activities with relevant law cita-25 |
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| 334 | 334 | | tions, and reference to related financial assist-1 |
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| 335 | 335 | | ance and grant programs. 2 |
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| 336 | 336 | | (D) Consideration of potential administra-3 |
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| 337 | 337 | | tive changes to the roles and responsibilities of 4 |
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| 338 | 338 | | the various Federal agencies involved in natural 5 |
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| 339 | 339 | | disaster resilience and recovery. 6 |
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| 340 | 340 | | (E) Policies that aim to improve the effi-7 |
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| 341 | 341 | | ciency and effectiveness of the Federal Govern-8 |
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| 342 | 342 | | ment’s approach to natural disaster resilience 9 |
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| 343 | 343 | | and recovery, to increase the access and efficacy 10 |
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| 344 | 344 | | of respective Federal programs to all impacted 11 |
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| 345 | 345 | | individuals and entities, and to recommend ap-12 |
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| 346 | 346 | | propriate investments in natural disaster resil-13 |
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| 347 | 347 | | ience to reduce duplication and inefficiency. 14 |
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| 348 | 348 | | (F) Other areas of natural disaster resil-15 |
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| 349 | 349 | | ience and recovery that are not described in this 16 |
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| 350 | 350 | | section, as determined by the Commission. 17 |
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| 351 | 351 | | (2) S |
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| 352 | 352 | | PECIFIC POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS .—To 18 |
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| 353 | 353 | | the maximum extent practicable, the report under 19 |
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| 354 | 354 | | paragraph (1) shall include specific short-term and 20 |
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| 355 | 355 | | long-term legislative and administrative policy rec-21 |
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| 357 | 357 | | (3) I |
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| 358 | 358 | | NTERIM REPORTS.—Not later than 180 23 |
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| 359 | 359 | | days after the date of enactment of this Act, and 24 |
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| 360 | 360 | | every 180 days thereafter, the Commission shall sub-25 |
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| 364 | 364 | | mit to the Committee on Homeland Security and 1 |
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| 365 | 365 | | Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Com-2 |
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| 366 | 366 | | mittee on Oversight and Government Reform of the 3 |
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| 367 | 367 | | House of Representatives an interim report relating 4 |
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| 368 | 368 | | to any matter described in paragraph (1). 5 |
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| 369 | 369 | | (g) T |
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| 370 | 370 | | ERMINATION.—The Commission shall terminate 6 |
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| 371 | 371 | | on the date that is 60 days after the date on which the 7 |
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| 372 | 372 | | Commission submits the report required under subsection 8 |
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| 373 | 373 | | (f)(1). 9 |
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| 374 | 374 | | (h) U |
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| 375 | 375 | | SE OFAPPROPRIATIONS.—Amounts used to 10 |
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| 376 | 376 | | carry out this section shall be derived solely from amounts 11 |
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| 377 | 377 | | otherwise appropriated to the Office, and no additional 12 |
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| 378 | 378 | | funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this 13 |
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| 379 | 379 | | Act. 14 |
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