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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 9375 

To require an earthquake resilience risk assessment, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

AUGUST 16, 2024 

Mr. MULLIN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Natural Resources, for 

a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 

consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To require an earthquake resilience risk assessment, and 

for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Earthquake Resilience 

5 Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. EARTHQUAKE RESILIENCY. 

7 (a) NATIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT.—Not later than 

8 two years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 

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1 nology, in collaboration with the Administrator of the Fed2 eral Emergency Management Agency, the Director of the 

3 National Science Foundation, and the Director of the 

4 United States Geological Survey, and in coordination with 

5 appropriate representatives of Federal, State, local, Trib6 al, and territorial governments and other stakeholders, 

7 shall submit to the Committee on Science, Space, and 

8 Technology of the House of Representatives and the Com9 mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the 

10 Senate a national risk assessment to identify the following: 

11 (1) The progress made by communities to 

12 strengthen earthquake resilience. 

13 (2) Any gaps in such resilience that remain as 

14 of the date of the risk assessment. 

15 (b) NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS REDUCTION

16 PROGRAM.—Section 5 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduc17 tion Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7704) is amended— 

18 (1) in subsection (a)— 

19 (A) in paragraph (2)(B)— 

20 (i) in clause (ii), by inserting ‘‘and 

21 post-earthquake recovery-based perform22 ance objectives that address functional re23 covery and reoccupancy’’ after ‘‘earthquake 

24 hazards reduction’’; 


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1 (ii) by redesignating clauses (iii) and 

2 (iv) as clauses (iv) and (v), respectively; 

3 (iii) by inserting after clause (ii) the 

4 following new clause: 

5 ‘‘(iii) development of standards, guide6 lines, and consensus codes for improved 

7 post-earthquake recovery of services pro8 vided by lifeline infrastructure coordinated, 

9 as appropriate, by a national lifeline infra10 structure organization;’’; and 

11 (iv) in clause (v), as so redesignated, 

12 by striking ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; and 

13 (B) in paragraph (4)(A)(iii), by inserting 

14 ‘‘, including pursuant to paragraph (2),’’ after 

15 ‘‘results of the Program’’; and 

16 (2) in subsection (b)(3)— 

17 (A) in subparagraph (G)— 

18 (i) by inserting ‘‘, real-time global 

19 navigation satellite system (GNSS) net20 work data streams, and geodetic network 

21 data’’ after ‘‘regional seismic networks’’; 

22 and 

23 (ii) by striking ‘‘and’’ after the semi24 colon; and 


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1 (B) in subparagraph (H), by striking the 

2 period and inserting ‘‘; and’’. 

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