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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6478 
To authorize the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agen-
cy to provide certain assistance for Guam or the Commonwealth of 
the Northern Mariana Islands, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 24, 2023 
Mr. MOYLAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Com-
mittees on Natural Resources, and the Judiciary, for a period to be sub-
sequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of 
such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To authorize the Administrator of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency to provide certain assistance for 
Guam or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, 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 ‘‘Typhoon Mawar Re-
construction Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. TYPHOON MAWAR RECONSTRUCTION AND RESIL-
IENCY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the Administrator of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency may provide repair and replacement 
assistance for hospital facilities, navigational waterways, 
power generation and transmission, and communication, 
pursuant to section 406 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5172) 
for major disaster declarations covering Guam or the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands declared 
after the enactment of this Act, and the major disaster 
declarations DR–4715–GU and DR–4716–MP to— 
(1) replace or restore the function of the dam-
aged facility, or any system necessary for the oper-
ation of such facility, to industry standards for safe-
ty, security, and resilience of the facility and system 
to future threats; and 
(2) direct any Federal agency, with reimburse-
ment by the Administrator, to utilize the authorities 
and the resources of such agency granted to such 
agency under Federal law (including personnel, 
equipment, supplies, facilities, and managerial, tech-
nical, and advisory services) to provide repair and 
restoration assistance directly to the Guam commu-
nities, in lieu of financial reimbursement by grant. 
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(b) FEDERAL SHARE.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the Federal share of assistance, including 
direct Federal assistance, provided for the repair, replace-
ment assistance, and restoration of navigational water-
ways, power generation and transmission, for hospital fa-
cilities, and communication pursuant to sections 406 and 
428 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer-
gency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5172 and 5189f) for the 
major disaster declarations DR–4715–GU and DR–4716– 
MP, shall be 100 percent of the eligible costs described 
in subsection (a). 
(c) CLARIFICATION.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, for the purposes section 6(b)(1)(B)(i) of 
the Joint Resolution entitled ‘‘A Joint Resolution to ap-
prove the ‘Covenant To Establish a Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union With the 
United States of America’, and for other purposes’’, ap-
proved March 24, 1976 (48 U.S.C. 1806(b)(1)(B)(i)), any 
repair or replacement project funded by the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency under the major disaster 
declarations DR–4715–GU and DR–4716–MP shall be 
considered directly connected to, supporting, associated 
with, or adversely affected by the military realignment oc-
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curring on Guam and in the Commonwealth of the North-
ern Mariana Islands. 
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