with amounts made available for the Community 
Development Block Grant—Disaster Recovery 
account, in connection with two or more major 
disasters declared pursuant to the Robert T. 
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.). 
‘‘(3) DURATION.—Pre-certification under the 
program under this subsection shall be effective for a 
term of 10 years. 
‘‘(n) DEPOSIT OF UNUSED AMOUNTS IN FUND.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If any amounts made avail-
able for assistance under this section to grantees re-
main unexpended upon the earlier of— 
‘‘(A) the date that the grantee of such 
amounts notifies the Secretary that the grantee 
has completed all activities identified in the 
grantee’s plan for use of such amounts that was 
approved by the Secretary in connection with 
such grant; or 
‘‘(B) the expiration of the 6-year period be-
ginning upon the Secretary obligating such 
amounts to the grantee, as such period may be 
extended pursuant to paragraph (2), 
the Secretary shall transfer such unexpended amounts 
to the Secretary of the Treasury for deposit into the 
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Community Development Block Grant Disaster Re-
covery Reserve Fund established under section 124, 
except that the Secretary may, by regulation, permit 
the grantee to retain amounts needed to close out the 
grant. 
‘‘(2) EXTENSION
OF
PERIOD
FOR
USE
OF 
FUNDS.—The period under paragraph (1)(B) shall be 
extended by not more than 3 years if, before the expi-
ration of such 6-year period, the Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget, upon a request by the 
Secretary, waives this requirement and submits a 
written justification for such waiver to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate that specifies the period of such 
extension. 
‘‘SEC. 124. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT DIS-
ASTER RECOVERY RESERVE FUND. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the 
Treasury of the United States an account to be known as 
the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recov-
ery Reserve Fund (in this section referred to as the ‘Fund’). 
‘‘(b) AMOUNTS.—The Fund shall consist of any 
amounts appropriated to or deposited into the Fund, in-
cluding amounts deposited into the Fund pursuant to sec-
tion 123(n). 
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‘‘(c) USE.—Amounts in the Fund shall be available 
only for providing assistance under section 123, but only 
to the extent provided in advance in appropriations Acts.’’. 
(b) REGULATIONS.—Not later than the expiration of 
the 12-month period beginning on the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment shall issue regulations to carry out sections 123 and 
124 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
1974, as added by the amendment made by subsection (a) 
of this section. 
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Union Calendar No. 870 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4557 
[Report No. 115–1107, Part I] 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development to provide disaster assistance to 
States and units of general government under a 
community development block grant disaster re-
covery program, and for other purposes. 
DECEMBER 28, 2018 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure dis-
charged; committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union and ordered to be 
printed 
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