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Calendar No. 497 

118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3071 

[Report No. 118–218] 

To amend section 324 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to incentivize States, Indian Tribes, and Territories 

to close disaster recovery projects by authorizing the use of excess funds 

for management costs for other disaster recovery projects. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

OCTOBER 18, 2023 

Ms. HASSAN (for herself, Mr. LANKFORD, and Mr. ROUNDS) introduced the 

following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 

Reported by Mr. PETERS, with amendments 

[Omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic] 

A BILL 

To amend section 324 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 

Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to incentivize 

States, Indian Tribes, and Territories to close disaster 

recovery projects by authorizing the use of excess funds 

for management costs for other disaster recovery 

projects. 


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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 ‘‘Disaster Management 

5 Costs Modernization Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. USE OF EXCESS FUNDS FOR MANAGEMENT COSTS. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 324 of the Robert T. 

8 Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 

9 (42 U.S.C. 5165b) is amended— 

10 (1) in subsection (b)(2)— 

11 (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) 

12 and (B) as clauses (i) and (ii), respectively, and 

13 adjusting the margins accordingly; and 

14 (B) in the matter preceding clause (i), as 

15 so redesignated, by striking ‘‘provide the fol16 lowing percentage rates’’ and inserting ‘‘pro17 vide— 

18 ‘‘(A) excess funds for management costs as 

19 described in subsection (c); and 

20 ‘‘(B) the following percentage rates’’; 

21 (2) by redesignating subsection (c) as sub22 section (d); and 

23 (3) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol24 lowing: 


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1 ‘‘(c) USE OF EXCESS FUNDS FOR MANAGEMENT

2 COSTS.— 

3 ‘‘(1) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 

4 ‘excess funds for management costs’ means the dif5 ference between— 

6 ‘‘(A) the amount of the applicable specific 

7 management costs authorized under subsection 

8 (b)(1) and subsection (b)(2)(B); and 

9 ‘‘(B) as of the date on which the grant 

10 award is closed, the amount of funding for 

11 management costs activities expended by the 

12 grantee or subgrantee receiving the financial as13 sistance for costs described in subparagraph 

14 (A). 

15 ‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY OF EXCESS FUNDS FOR

16 MANAGEMENT COSTS.—The President may make 

17 available to a grantee or subgrantee receiving finan18 cial assistance under section 403, 404, 406, 407, or 

19 502 any excess funds for management costs. 

20 ‘‘(3) USE OF FUNDS.—Excess funds for man21 agement costs made available to a grantee or sub22 grantee under paragraph (2) may be used for— 

23 ‘‘(A) activities associated with building ca24 pacity to prepare for, recover from, or mitigate 

25 the impacts of a major disaster or emergency 


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1 declared under section 401 or 501, respectively; 

2 and 

3 ‘‘(B) management costs associated with 

4 any— 

5 ‘‘(i) major disaster; 

6 ‘‘(ii) emergency; 

7 ‘‘(iii) disaster preparedness measure; 

8 or 

9 ‘‘(iv) mitigation activity or measure 

10 authorized under section 203, 204, 205, or 

11 404. 

12 ‘‘(4) AVAILABILITY.—Excess funds for manage13 ment costs made available to a grantee or sub14 grantee under paragraph (2) shall remain available 

15 to the grantee or subgrantee until the date that is 

16 5 years after the date on which the excess funds for 

17 management costs are made available under para18 graph (2).’’. 

19 (b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by sub20 section (a) shall apply with respect to any grant award 

21 in relation to a major disaster or emergency declared 

22 under section 401 or 501, respectively, of the Robert T. 

23 Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 

24 (42 U.S.C. 5170, 5191)— 


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1 (1) the declaration of which is open on, or made 

2 on or after, the date of enactment of this Act; and 

3 (2) that is funded with amounts appropriated 

4 on or after the date of enactment of this Act. 

5 (c) GAO STUDY.—Not later than 180 days after the 

6 date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of 

7 the United States shall submit to the Committee on Home8 land Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and 

9 the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the 

10 House of Representatives a report— 

11 (1) on the actual management costs described in 

12 section 324 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 

13 and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5165b) 

14 during the period of a major disaster declaration 

15 under section 401 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5170) to de16 termine whether the amount set aside for those man17 agement costs after the date of enactment of this Act 

18 is appropriate; and 

19 (2) that includes the management costs described 

20 in section 324 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Re21 lief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5165b) 

22 for each disaster declared under during the period of 

23 a major disaster declaration under section 401 of such 

24 Act (42 U.S.C. 5170) during the 5-year period pre25 ceding the date of the report, the amount set aside for 


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1 those management costs, the use of those management 

2 costs, the length of each disaster, and the reason for 

3 the length of each disaster. 

4 (d) NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS.—No additional funds are 

5 authorized to be appropriated to carry out the amendments 

6 made by subsection (a). 


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Calendar No. 497 

118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3071 

[Report No. 118–218] 

A BILL 

To amend section 324 of the Robert T. Stafford 

other disaster recovery projects. the use of excess funds for management costs for to close disaster recovery projects by authorizing incentivize States, Indian Tribes, and Territories Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to 

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 

Reported with amendments 


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