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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6478 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6478

  To authorize the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management 
 Agency to provide certain assistance for Guam or the Commonwealth of 
         the Northern Mariana Islands, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 24, 2023

  Mr. Moylan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the 
Committees on Natural Resources, and the Judiciary, 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

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                                 A BILL

 
  To authorize the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management 
 Agency to provide certain assistance for Guam or the Commonwealth of 
         the Northern Mariana Islands, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Typhoon Mawar Reconstruction Act''.

SEC. 2. TYPHOON MAWAR RECONSTRUCTION AND RESILIENCY.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency may provide 
repair and replacement assistance for hospital facilities, navigational 
waterways, power generation and transmission, and communication, 
pursuant to section 406 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5172) for major disaster 
declarations covering Guam or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands declared after the enactment of this Act, and the major 
disaster declarations DR-4715-GU and DR-4716-MP to--
            (1) replace or restore the function of the damaged 
        facility, or any system necessary for the operation of such 
        facility, to industry standards for safety, security, and 
        resilience of the facility and system to future threats; and
            (2) direct any Federal agency, with reimbursement by the 
        Administrator, to utilize the authorities and the resources of 
        such agency granted to such agency under Federal law (including 
        personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, and managerial, 
        technical, and advisory services) to provide repair and 
        restoration assistance directly to the Guam communities, in 
        lieu of financial reimbursement by grant.
    (b) Federal Share.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Federal share of assistance, including direct Federal assistance, 
provided for the repair, replacement assistance, and restoration of 
navigational waterways, power generation and transmission, for hospital 
facilities, and communication pursuant to sections 406 and 428 of the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5172 and 5189f) for the major disaster declarations DR-4715-GU 
and DR-4716-MP, shall be 100 percent of the eligible costs described in 
subsection (a).
    (c) Clarification.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
the purposes section 6(b)(1)(B)(i) of the Joint Resolution entitled ``A 
Joint Resolution to approve the `Covenant To Establish a Commonwealth 
of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union With the United 
States of America', and for other purposes'', approved March 24, 1976 
(48 U.S.C. 1806(b)(1)(B)(i)), any repair or replacement project funded 
by the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the major disaster 
declarations DR-4715-GU and DR-4716-MP shall be considered directly 
connected to, supporting, associated with, or adversely affected by the 
military realignment occurring on Guam and in the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands.
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