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Union Calendar No. 356 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1066 
[Report No. 117–459] 
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
Act to provide flexibility with the cost share for fire management assist-
ance, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 15, 2021 
Mr. NEGUSE (for himself, Mr. CURTIS, Mr. O’HALLERAN, Mr. STEWART, Ms. 
NORTON, Ms. JACKSON LEE, and Mr. SAN NICOLAS) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure 
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022 
Additional sponsors: Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. STANTON, Mr. SIMPSON, Mr. 
GARAMENDI, Mr. GALLEGO, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Ms. LEE of California, 
Ms. ESHOO, Mr. LAMALFA, Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. HORSFORD, Ms. 
SCHRIER, Ms. JAYAPAL, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. BLU-
MENAUER, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. DESAULNIER, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. COSTA, Mrs. 
NAPOLITANO, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Mr. SWALWELL, Ms. 
BASS, Ms. CHU, Mr. MCNERNEY, Ms. STRICKLAND, Mr. PERLMUTTER, 
Mr. AGUILAR, Mr. KAHELE, Ms. STANSBURY, and Ms. LEGER 
FERNANDEZ 
SEPTEMBER 13, 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 February 15, 2021] 
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A BILL 
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer-
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share for fire management assistance, and for other pur-
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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 ‘‘Wildfire Recovery Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FIRE MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE COST SHARE. 
Section 420 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Emergency Assistance Act is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection 
(f); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(e) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share of assist-
ance under this section shall be not less than 75 percent 
of the eligible cost of such assistance.’’. 
SEC. 3. RULEMAKING. 
Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the President, acting through the Administrator 
of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, shall con-
duct and complete a rulemaking to provide criteria for the 
circumstances under which the Administrator may rec-
ommend the President increase the Federal cost share for 
section 420 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5187). Such criteria 
shall include a threshold metric that assesses the financial 
impact to a State or local government from responding to 
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a fire for which fire management assistance is being pro-
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