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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6128 
To provide for the distribution of excess manufactured housing units located 
at Hope Municipal Airport, Arkansas, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 
Mr. ROSS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To provide for the distribution of excess manufactured hous-
ing units located at Hope Municipal Airport, Arkansas, 
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. DISTRIBUTION OF EXCESS MANUFACTURED 
HOUSING UNITS LOCATED AT HOPE MUNIC-
IPAL AIRPORT, ARKANSAS. 
(a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—Subject to the require-
ments of this section, the Director of the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency shall establish and carry out 
a program to designate and distribute to eligible govern-
ment entities, without payment of consideration, excess 
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manufactured housing units located at Hope Municipal 
Airport, Arkansas. 
(b) USE OF MANUFACTURED HOUSING UNITS.—An 
eligible government entity receiving excess manufactured 
housing units under the program shall use such housing 
units to provide affordable rental housing. 
(c) DEADLINE FOR ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director 
shall establish the program not later than 120 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act. 
(d) DESIGNATION
OF
EXCESS
MANUFACTURED 
HOUSING UNITS.—Not later than 120 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Director shall— 
(1) determine the number, not to exceed 3,000, 
of manufactured housing units located at Hope Mu-
nicipal Airport, Arkansas, as of the date of enact-
ment of this Act, that the Director needs to retain 
at such airport for emergency preparedness and re-
sponse purposes; and 
(2) designate any manufactured housing units 
located at such airport, as of the date of enactment 
of this Act, in excess of the number determined by 
the Director under paragraph (1) as excess manu-
factured housing units for distribution under the 
program. 
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(e) ELIGIBLE GOVERNMENT ENTITIES.—For pur-
poses of this section, an eligible government entity is a 
unit of local government, including a city, county, or par-
ish, that is located in an area affected by a major disaster 
declared by the President— 
(1) at any time during the 24-month period 
ending on the date of enactment of this Act; or 
(2) at any time after the date of enactment of 
this Act. 
(f) SITE REQUIREMENT.—In order to receive manu-
factured housing units under the program, an eligible gov-
ernment entity shall provide suitable sites, connected to 
water and sewer lines, to which the manufactured housing 
units may be relocated. 
(g) APPLICATION.—An eligible government entity 
seeking to receive manufactured housing units under the 
program shall submit an application to the Director at 
such time, in such manner, and containing such informa-
tion as the Director may require. 
(h) DETERMINATION.—Not later than 60 days after 
the date of receipt of an application under subsection (g), 
the Director shall approve or deny the application. 
(i) PRIORITY.—In making determinations under sub-
section (h), the Director shall give priority to eligible gov-
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ernment entities representing areas with a high rate of 
poverty. 
(j) RELOCATION
OF
MANUFACTURED
HOUSING 
UNITS.—The Director shall relocate the manufactured 
housing units to the sites provided by the recipients of 
manufactured housing units under the program at full 
Federal expense. 
(k) MAXIMUM NUMBER OF UNITS FOR DISTRIBU-
TION.—An eligible government entity may receive 6 manu-
factured housing units under the program for every acre 
of land provided as sites to which such housing units may 
be relocated, but in no case may a government entity re-
ceive more than 100 housing units under the program. 
(l) MAJOR DISASTER DEFINED.—In this section, the 
term ‘‘major disaster’’ has the meaning given that term 
in section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122). 
SEC. 2. DISPOSAL OF TEMPORARY HOUSING UNITS. 
Section 408(d)(2)(B) of the Robert T. Stafford Dis-
aster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
5174(d)(2)(B)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(B) OTHER METHODS OF DISPOSAL.—If 
not disposed of under subparagraph (A), a tem-
porary housing unit purchased under this sec-
tion by the President for the purpose of housing 
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disaster victims shall be transferred to the Ad-
ministrator of General Services for disposal as 
excess property.’’. 
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