eral statute, Executive order, or implementing 
regulation. 
‘‘(e) ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW.—Recipients of funds 
received under this section that use funds to supplement 
funds provided under section 402, 403, 404, 406, 407, 
408(c)(4), 428, or 502 may adopt, without review or pub-
lic comment, any environmental review, approval, or per-
mit performed by a Federal agency. 
‘‘(f) BEST PRACTICES.—The President shall identify 
best practices for grantees on issues including developing 
action plans, establishing financial controls, building 
grantee technical and administrative capacity, procure-
ment, and use of grant funds as local match for other 
sources of Federal funding. Not later than 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this section, the President shall 
publish a compilation of such identified best practices and 
share with all relevant grantees to facilitate a more effi-
cient and effective disaster recovery process. 
‘‘(g) NATURAL
DISASTER
RECOVERY
RESERVE 
FUND.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is established in the 
Treasury of the United States an account to be 
known as the Natural Disaster Recovery Reserve 
Fund (in this section referred to as the ‘Fund’). 
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‘‘(2) AMOUNTS.—The Fund shall consist of any 
amounts appropriated to or deposited into the Fund, 
including amounts deposited into the Fund pursuant 
to paragraph (4). 
‘‘(3) USE OF FUNDS.—Amounts in the Fund 
shall be available, pursuant to a declaration of a 
major disaster, only for providing technical assist-
ance and capacity building in connection with sub-
section (c)(4) for grantees that have been allocated 
assistance under this section in connection with such 
disaster to facilitate planning and increase capacity 
to administer assistance under this section. 
‘‘(4) UNUSED AMOUNTS.—If any amounts made 
available for assistance under this section to grant-
ees remain unexpended on the earlier of— 
‘‘(A) the date that the grantee of such 
amounts notifies the President that the grantee 
has completed all activities; or 
‘‘(B) except as provided in paragraph (5), 
the expiration of the 6-year period beginning 
when the President obligates such amounts to 
the grantee, the President shall transfer such 
unexpended amounts to the Secretary of the 
Treasury for deposit into the Fund, except that 
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the President may permit the grantee to retain 
amounts needed to close out the grant. 
‘‘(5) EXTENSION
OF
PERIOD
FOR
USE
OF 
FUNDS.—The period under paragraph (4)(B) may 
be extended by not more than 4 years if, before the 
expiration of such 6-year period, the President 
waives this requirement and submits a written jus-
tification for such waiver to the Committees on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate that specifies the period of such extension. 
‘‘(h) WAIVER AUTHORITY.—Until such time as the 
President issues regulations to implement this section, the 
President may— 
‘‘(1) waive notice and comment rulemaking, if 
the President determines the waiver is necessary to 
expeditiously implement the provisions of this sec-
tion; and 
‘‘(2) carry out the grant program under this 
section as a pilot program. 
‘‘(i) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section, the 
following terms shall apply: 
‘‘(1) STATE AUDITOR.—The term ‘State audi-
tor’ means the individual selected by each State or 
the Chief Executive to submit information pursuant 
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to subsection (c)(3) and a certification in accordance 
with subsection (d)(2)(A). 
‘‘(2) UNMET NEED.—The term ‘unmet need’ 
means any unresourced item, support, or assistance 
that has been assessed and verified as necessary for 
a survivor to recover from a major disaster, includ-
ing food, clothing, shelter, first aid, emotional and 
spiritual care, household items, home repair, or re-
building.’’. 
Æ 
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