effective on or after such date, shall continue in 
effect according to their terms until modified, 
terminated, superseded, set aside, or revoked in 
accordance with law by the President, the Ad-
ministrator, or other authorized official, a court 
of competent jurisdiction, or by operation of 
law. 
(2) PROCEEDINGS NOT AFFECTED.—The provi-
sions of this title shall not affect any proceedings, 
including notices of proposed rulemaking, or any ap-
plication for any license, permit, certificate, or finan-
cial assistance pending before the Agency on the 
date of the transfers of functions under section 105, 
with respect to functions transferred by section 105 
but such proceedings and applications shall continue. 
Orders shall be issued in such proceedings, appeals 
shall be taken therefrom, and payments shall be 
made pursuant to such orders, as if this title had 
not been enacted, and orders issued in any such pro-
ceedings shall continue in effect until modified, ter-
minated, superseded, or revoked by a duly author-
ized official, by a court of competent jurisdiction, or 
by operation of law. Nothing in this paragraph shall 
be deemed to prohibit the discontinuance or modi-
fication of any such proceeding under the same 
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terms and conditions and to the same extent that 
such proceeding could have been discontinued or 
modified if this title had not been enacted. 
(3) SUITS NOT AFFECTED.—The provisions of 
this title shall not affect suits commenced before the 
date of the transfers of functions under section 105, 
and in all such suits, proceedings shall be had, ap-
peals taken, and judgments rendered in the same 
manner and with the same effect as if this title had 
not been enacted. 
(4) NONABATEMENT OF ACTIONS.—No suit, ac-
tion, or other proceeding commenced by or against 
the Agency, or by or against any individual in the 
official capacity of such individual as an officer of 
the Agency, shall abate by reason of the enactment 
of this title. 
(5) ADMINISTRATIVE
ACTIONS
RELATING
TO 
PROMULGATION OF REGULATIONS.—Any administra-
tive action relating to the preparation or promulga-
tion of a regulation by the Agency relating to a 
function transferred under section 105 may be con-
tinued by the Agency with the same effect as if this 
title had not been enacted. 
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in any other Fed-
eral law, Executive order, rule, regulation, or delegation 
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of authority, or any document of or pertaining to a depart-
ment, agency, or office from which a function is trans-
ferred by section 105— 
(1) to the head of such department, agency, or 
office is deemed to refer to the head of the depart-
ment, agency, or office to which such function is 
transferred; or 
(2) to such department, agency, or office is 
deemed to refer to the department, agency, or office 
to which such function is transferred. 
SEC. 108. CONFORMING AND TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS. 
(a) CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.—Section 901(b)(2) 
of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following: 
‘‘(H) The Federal Emergency Management 
Agency.’’. 
(b) INSPECTOR GENERAL ACT OF 1978.—Section 
12(1) of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. 
App.) is amended by striking ‘‘Director of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency’’ and inserting ‘‘Admin-
istrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’’. 
(c) TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO REFERENCES.— 
The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) is amended— 
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(1) in section 602(a) by striking paragraph (7) 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘(7) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘Adminis-
trator’ means the Administrator of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency.’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘Director’’ each place it appears 
and inserting ‘‘Administrator’’, except— 
(A) the second and fourth places it appears 
in section 622(c); and 
(B) in section 626(b). 
SEC. 109. AMENDMENTS TO HOMELAND SECURITY ACT OF 
2002. 
(a) EVACUATION PLANS AND EXERCISES.—Section 
512(c) of such Act (6 U.S.C. 321a(c)) is amended by 
striking ‘‘Administrator’’ each place it appears and insert-
ing ‘‘Secretary’’. 
(b) ASSISTANT SECRETARY
FOR CYBERSECURITY 
AND COMMUNICATIONS; NATIONAL OPERATIONS CEN-
TER.—Sections 514 and 515 of such Act (6 U.S.C. 321c 
and 321d) are amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 514. ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CYBERSECURITY 
AND COMMUNICATIONS. 
‘‘There is in the Department an Assistant Secretary 
for Cybersecurity and Communications. 
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