Offsets Supplemental Appropriations And The Disaster Relief Fund

Author : Bruce R. Lindsay
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437930271
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Disaster Relief Funding and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations written by Bruce R. Lindsay and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a state is overwhelmed by an emergency or disaster, the governor may request assistance from the federal government. Federal assistance is contingent on whether the President issues an emergency or major disaster declaration. Once the declaration has been issued, FEMA provides disaster relief through the use of the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF). Contents of this report: (1) DRF; (2) Past and Present Authorities Related to the DRF: Public Laws Influencing the Administration of Disaster Relief; (3) How the DRF is Funded; (4) The Debate over Emergency Supplemental Appropriations; (5) Emergency Supplemental Appropriations: FY 1989 ¿ FY 2008; (6) Issues for Congress; (7) Concluding Policy Questions. Illus. A print on demand report.

Author : William L. Painter
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Offsets, Supplemental Appropriations, and the Disaster Relief Fund written by William L. Painter and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses the recent history of offsetting rescissions in paying for supplemental appropriations to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Relief Fund (DRF).

Author : William L. Painter
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781481908061
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Offsets, Supplemental Appropriations, and the Disaster Relief Fund: FY1990-FY2013 written by William L. Painter and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication discusses the recent history of offsetting rescissions in paying for supplemental appropriations to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Relief Fund (DRF). As Congress has debated the growing size of the budget deficit and national debt in recent years, efforts have intensified to control spending and offset the costs of legislation. In 1995, 2011, and again in 2012, the question of offsetting disaster relief spending emerged in congressional debate. In 2011, a series of disasters threatened to deplete the DRF, which is the primary source of assistance to state and local governments as well as individuals in the wake of disasters. Hurricane Sandy struck the east coast of the United States on October 29, 2012. The storm caused tens of billions of dollars in damage along the coast. As damage estimates became public in the weeks after the storm, calls for supplemental appropriations to help pay for recovery efforts were met with calls for offsets from some quarters. Traditionally, supplemental disaster relief funding has been treated as emergency spending, not counted against discretionary budget caps, and not requiring an offset. However, supplemental spending packages have at times carried rescissions that have offset, to one degree or another, their budgetary impact. In some instances, the supplemental spending packages have contained both appropriations for the DRF and offsetting rescissions. This publication examines the use of offsets in connection with supplemental funding for the DRF since FY1990, reviewing three specific incidences where bills that had an impact on the level of funding available in the DRF were fully offset, and points out a number of issues Congress may wish to consider in this debate. Since FY1990, there has only been one case in which supplemental funding for the DRF was completely offset by rescissions.

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Total Pages : 21 pages
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Download or read book Offsets, Supplemental Appropriations, and the Disaster Relief Fund written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce R. Lindsay
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
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Download or read book Disaster Relief Funding and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations written by Bruce R. Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce A. Lindsay
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Download or read book Disaster Relief Funding and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations written by Bruce A. Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes the various components of the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), including (1) what authorities have shaped it over the years; (2) how FEMA determines the amount of the appropriation requested to Congress (pertaining to the DRF); and (3) how emergency supplemental appropriations are requested. In addition to the DRF, information is provided on funds appropriated in supplemental appropriations legislation to agencies other than the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Aspects of debate concerning how disaster relief is budgeted are also highlighted and examined, and alternative budgetary options are summarized.

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disaster Relief Fund written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Legislation for Disaster Assistance written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other supplemental appropriations legislation enacted after catastrophic disasters (or several significant disasters that occurred in short time intervals) range from almost $366 million in FY2001 before the terrorist attacks (largely due to the Nisqually earthquake in the summer of 2001) to more than $12 billion for the Midwest floods of 1993 and the Northridge earthquake of 1994. [...] The mean funding for the set of all of the enacted bills reflects the total funding for the period divided by the total number of 34 enacted measures. [...] The June 9, 2008 amendment to the FY2009 budget request did include increased funding of $989,000 for the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding for continued operations. [...] Division B contains additional disaster and non- disaster funding as follows: a total $6.355 billion for FEMA Disaster Relief funding, Housing and Urban Development funding for the Road Home project, Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management funding for Wildland Fire Management, $165,200 for the traditional payment to the heirs of the late Jo Ann Davis, and $1,025,398,000 for the Census Bureau' [...] FEMA for disaster relief for Hurricane Isabel and the California wildfires was added to the legislation, bringing the total enacted funding for P. L. 108-106 to $87.5 billion.

Author : Thomas L Hungerford
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Supplemental Appropriations written by Thomas L Hungerford and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Hurricane Katrina Relief written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the widespread destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, the 109th Congress enacted two FY2005 emergency supplemental appropriations bills (P.L. 10961 and P.L. 109-62), which together provided $62.3 billion for emergency response and recovery needs. The FY2006 appropriations legislation for the Department of Defense (P.L. 109-148) reallocated some of those funds primarily to pay for the restoration of damaged federal facilities, largely through a government-wide rescission and also through the reallocation of $23.4 billion from the Disaster Relief Fund administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In addition, Congress agreed to transfer $712 million from FEMA to the Small Business Administration for disaster loans (P.L. 109-174). In FY2006, Congress agreed to an administration request for further funding; $19.3 billion was appropriated in supplemental legislation (P.L. 109234) for recovery assistance. This CRS report summarizes federal disaster assistance funding legislation in the 109th Congress and presents some information on federal expenditures and obligations for disaster recovery activities. This report will be updated as events warrant.