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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4391 
To authorize the President to provide disaster assistance for the repair, 
restoration, reconstruction, or replacement of a privately-owned power 
transmission facility damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina or 
Hurricane Rita. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 18, 2005 
Mr. YOUNG
of Alaska (for himself, Mr. SHUSTER, Mr. BAKER, Mr. 
BOUSTANY, Mr. JINDAL, Mr. JEFFERSON, Mr. MELANCON, and Mr. 
PICKERING) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To authorize the President to provide disaster assistance 
for the repair, restoration, reconstruction, or replacement 
of a privately-owned power transmission facility damaged 
or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 
1. 
DISASTER 
ASSISTANCE 
FOR 
PRIVATELY- 
OWNED POWER TRANSMISSION FACILITIES 
DAMAGED OR DESTROYED BY HURRICANE 
KATRINA OR HURRICANE RITA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the requirements of 
this section, the President may make contributions under 
section 406 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5172) to a person 
that owns or operates a power transmission facility for the 
costs of repair, restoration, reconstruction, or replacement 
of those portions of the facility damaged or destroyed by 
Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita and associated ex-
penses incurred by such person. 
(b) ELIGIBILITY
FOR CONTRIBUTIONS.—A person 
that owns or operates a power transmission facility shall 
be eligible for contributions under this section if— 
(1) as a result of Hurricane Katrina or Hurri-
cane Rita the facility suffered an outage during 
which the facility was not able to provide service to 
more than 25 percent of the customers of the facility 
or was not able to provide service over more than 25 
percent of the transmission miles of the facility; and 
(2) the total of the costs of repair, restoration, 
reconstruction, and replacement of all power trans-
mission facilities owned or operated by such person 
that were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane
Katrina and Hurricane Rita and associated expenses 
exceed $50,000,000. 
(c) LIMITATIONS ON CONTRIBUTIONS.—Repair, res-
toration, reconstruction, and replacement costs of a person 
that owns or operates one or more power transmission fa-
cilities and associated expenses shall be eligible for con-
tributions under subsection (a) only to the extent that the 
total of such costs and expenses exceed $50,000,000 and 
such person does not receive funds from an insurer for 
such costs and expenses. 
(d) FEDERAL SHARE.—The President shall credit to-
ward the non-Federal share of the costs of repair, restora-
tion, reconstruction, or replacement of a power trans-
mission facility and associated expenses under this section 
all amounts incurred in connection with such costs and 
expenses by the person that owns or operates the facility, 
including the first $50,000,000 of such costs and ex-
penses. 
(e) POWER TRANSMISSION FACILITY DEFINED.—In 
this section, the term ‘‘power transmission facility’’ means 
a privately-owned electric transmission or distribution fa-
cility obligated under State law to provide electricity serv-
ice to retail customers and a privately-owned natural gas 
transmission or distribution facility. Such term includes 
leased facilities.
(f) APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS.— 
The President shall approve or disapprove an application 
for assistance submitted by a person under this section 
not later than 30 days after the date of receipt of the ap-
plication. 
(g) FUNDING.—Amounts appropriated for providing 
disaster relief under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Re-
lief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et 
seq.) shall be available to carry out this section, including 
amounts appropriated before the date of enactment of this 
Act. 
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