I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8300 
To direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
to issue guidance on extreme temperature events and resilience goals, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 7, 2022 
Mr. BLUMENAUER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency to issue guidance on extreme tempera-
ture events and resilience goals, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Empowering Resilient 
Local Communities Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 203 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5133) is 
amended— 
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(1) by amending subsection (a) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(a) DEFINITION OF UNDERSERVED COMMUNITY.— 
In this section, the term ‘underserved community’ means 
a community, or a neighborhood within a community, 
that— 
‘‘(1) is classified as high risk according to cen-
sus tract risk ratings derived from a product that— 
‘‘(A) is maintained under a natural hazard 
assessment program; 
‘‘(B) is available to the public; 
‘‘(C) defines natural hazard risk across the 
United States; 
‘‘(D) reflects high levels of individual haz-
ard risk ratings; 
‘‘(E) reflects high social vulnerability rat-
ings and low community resilience ratings; 
‘‘(F) reflects the principal natural hazard 
risks identified for the respective census tracts; 
and 
‘‘(G) any other elements determined by the 
President; 
‘‘(2) is comprised of 50,000 or fewer individuals 
and is economically disadvantaged, as determined by 
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the State in which the community is located and 
based on criteria established by the President; or 
‘‘(3) is otherwise determined by the President 
based on factors including, high housing cost burden 
and substandard housing, percentage of homeless 
population, limited water and sanitation access, de-
mographic information such as race, age, and dis-
ability, language composition, transportation access 
or type, disproportionate environmental stressor bur-
den, and disproportionate impacts from climate 
change.’’; 
(2) in subsection (g)(9) by striking ‘‘small im-
poverished communities’’ and inserting ‘‘underserved 
communities’’; and 
(3) in subsection (h)(2)— 
(A) in the heading by striking ‘‘SMALL IM-
POVERISHED
COMMUNITIES’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘small impoverished com-
munity’’ and inserting ‘‘underserved commu-
nity’’. 
SEC. 3. GUIDANCE ON EXTREME TEMPERATURE EVENTS. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Emergency 
Management Administration shall issue guidance related 
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