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Union Calendar No. 204 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5689 
[Report No. 117–277] 
To improve the provision of Federal resources to help build capacity and 
fund risk-reducing, cost-effective mitigation projects for eligible State, 
local, Tribal, and territorial governments and certain private nonprofit 
organizations, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 22, 2021 
Mr. DEFAZIO (for himself, Mr. GRAVES of Missouri, Ms. TITUS, and Mr. 
WEBSTER of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
MARCH 24, 2022 
Additional sponsors: Ms. NORTON and Ms. HOULAHAN 
MARCH 24, 2022 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on October 22, 2021] 
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A BILL 
To improve the provision of Federal resources to help build 
capacity and fund risk-reducing, cost-effective mitigation 
projects for eligible State, local, Tribal, and territorial 
governments and certain private nonprofit organizations, 
and for other purposes. 
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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 ‘‘Resilient Assistance for 
Mitigation for Environmentally Resilient Infrastructure 
and Construction by Americans Act’’ or the ‘‘Resilient 
AMERICA Act’’. 
SEC. 2. UNSPENT FUNDS. 
(a) REDISTRIBUTION OF UNCLAIMED AMOUNTS.—Sec-
tion 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as 
subsections (g) and (h), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (e) the following: 
‘‘(f) REDISTRIBUTION
OF UNCLAIMED
OR UNOBLI-
GATED AMOUNTS.—The President may— 
‘‘(1) withdraw any portion of financial assist-
ance made available to a State or Indian tribal gov-
ernment under subsection (a) for which the State or 
Indian tribal government has failed to submit an ap-
plication upon the expiration of the application sub-
mission time limit or that remains unobligated for a 
major disaster or event eligible for assistance pursu-
ant to section 420 upon the expiration of 84 months 
or the closeout of the grant, whichever is sooner; and 
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‘‘(2) transfer the financial assistance withdrawn 
under paragraph (1) to any other amounts otherwise 
available to be awarded under section 203.’’. 
(b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendment made by sub-
section (a) shall apply to any major disaster declared by 
the President under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Emergency Assistance Act on or after November 23, 
1988. 
SEC. 3. PREDISASTER HAZARD MITIGATION. 
Section 203(i) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5133) is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘6 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘15 percent’’. 
SEC. 4. NONPROFIT FACILITIES. 
Section 203 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5133) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in subsection (b) by striking ‘‘and local gov-
ernments’’ and inserting ‘‘, local governments, and 
private nonprofit facilities’’; 
(2) in subsection (c) by striking ‘‘or local govern-
ment’’ in each place it appears and inserting ‘‘, local 
government, or private nonprofit facility’’; 
(3) in subsection (d)— 
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(A) in paragraph (1)(A) by striking ‘‘local 
governments’’ and inserting ‘‘local governments 
and private nonprofit facilities’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘local governments’’ in 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘local 
governments or private nonprofit facilities’’; 
and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B) by striking 
‘‘local government’’ and inserting ‘‘local 
government or private nonprofit facility’’; 
and 
(C) in paragraph (3) by inserting ‘‘or pri-
vate nonprofit facilities’’ after ‘‘any local govern-
ments of the State’’. 
(4) in subsection (e)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)(A) by striking ‘‘and 
local governments’’ and inserting ‘‘, local govern-
ments, and private nonprofit facilities’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘or local 
government’’ in each place it appears and insert-
ing ‘‘, local government, or private nonprofit fa-
cility’’; 
(5) in subsection (f)— 
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(A) in paragraph (2) by inserting ‘‘or pri-
vate nonprofit facilities located in the State’’ 
after ‘‘local governments of the State’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (3)(A) by inserting ‘‘or 
private nonprofit facilities located in the State’’ 
after ‘‘local governments of a State’’; and 
(6) in subsection (g) by striking ‘‘or local govern-
ment’’ in each place it appears and inserting ‘‘, local 
government, or private nonprofit facility’’. 
SEC. 5. BUILDING CODE IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCE-
MENT SET ASIDE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 203(f) of the Robert T. 
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5133(m)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para-
graph (4); and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(3) BUILDING CODE IMPLEMENTATION AND EN-
FORCEMENT SET-ASIDE.—Of the amounts made avail-
able under this section for any given year, the Ad-
ministrator may use not less than 10 percent to carry 
out eligible activities that further the implementation 
and enforcement of the latest published editions of rel-
evant consensus-based codes, specifications, and 
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standards, including any amendments made by State, 
local, Tribal, or territorial governments to such codes, 
specifications, and standards, that incorporate the 
latest hazard-resistant designs and establish min-
imum acceptable criteria for the design, construction, 
and maintenance of facilities and residential struc-
tures that may be eligible for assistance under this 
Act. In any fiscal year in which requests for assist-
ance for such activities do not total at least 10 per-
cent of assistance under this section, any remaining 
funds may be used as additional assistance for the 
purposes of paragraph (1).’’. 
(b) LATEST PUBLISHED EDITIONS.—Section 203(m) 
of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5133(m)) is amended by insert-
ing ‘‘, (f)(3),’’ after ‘‘subsections (e)(1)(B)(iv)’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 1234 of the 
Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018 (42 U.S.C. 5133 
note) is amended by striking subsection (d). 
SEC. 6. RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE. 
(a) USE OF ASSISTANCE.—Subsection (g) of section 
404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer-
gency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c(g)) (as redesignated 
by section 2) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (12)— 
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(A) by inserting ‘‘, wildfire, and ice storm’’ 
after ‘‘windstorm’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘including replacing’’ and 
inserting the following: ‘‘including— 
‘‘(A) replacing’’; 
(C) in subparagraph (A) (as so des-
ignated)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘, wildfire,’’ after ‘‘ex-
treme wind’’; and 
(ii) by adding ‘‘and’’ after the semi-
colon at the end; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(B) the installation of fire-resistant wires 
and infrastructure and the undergrounding of 
wires;’’; 
(2) in paragraph (13) by striking ‘‘and’’; and 
(3) by striking paragraph (14) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(14) replacing water systems that have been 
burned, caused contamination, or are at risk from 
wildfire impacts with resilient, non-combustible mate-
rials; 
‘‘(15) repairing, replacing, or retrofitting infra-
structure damaged by ice storms to be resilient to the 
impacts of such storms; 
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