I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6109 
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
Act to reauthorize the pre-disaster hazard mitigation program, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 21, 2008 
Mr. OBERSTAR (for himself, Mr. MICA, Ms. NORTON, and Mr. GRAVES) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Trans-
portation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer-
gency Assistance Act to reauthorize the pre-disaster haz-
ard mitigation program, 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 ‘‘Pre-Disaster Mitiga-
tion Act of 2008’’. 
SEC. 2. PRE-DISASTER HAZARD MITIGATION. 
(a) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.—Section 203(f) of such 
Act (42 U.S.C. 5133(f)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(f) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.— 
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‘‘(1) BASE AMOUNT.—The amount of financial 
assistance made available to a State (including 
amounts made available to local governments of the 
State) under this section for a fiscal year— 
‘‘(A) shall be not less than the lesser of— 
‘‘(i) $575,000; or 
‘‘(ii) the amount that is equal to 1.0 
percent of the total funds appropriated to 
carry out this section for the fiscal year; 
and 
‘‘(B) shall be subject to the criteria speci-
fied in subsection (g). 
‘‘(2) COMPETITIVE PROGRAM.—Other than the 
amounts described in paragraph (1), financial assist-
ance made available to a State (including amounts 
made available to local governments of the State) 
under this section shall be awarded on a competitive 
basis subject to the criteria in subsection (g). 
‘‘(3) MAXIMUM AMOUNT.—The amount of fi-
nancial assistance made available to a State (includ-
ing amounts made available to local governments of 
the State) for a fiscal year shall not exceed 15 per-
cent of the total amount of funds appropriated to 
carry out this section for the fiscal year.’’. 
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(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
203(m) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5133(m)) is amended to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(m) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$250,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009, 2010, and 
2011.’’. 
(c) REFERENCES.—Section 203 of such Act (42 
U.S.C. 5133) is amended— 
(1) 
in 
the 
section 
heading 
by 
striking 
‘‘PREDISASTER’’ and inserting ‘‘PRE-DISASTER’’; 
(2) in the subsection heading for subsection (i) 
by striking ‘‘PREDISASTER’’ and inserting ‘‘PRE- 
DISASTER’’; 
(3) by striking ‘‘Predisaster’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘Pre-Disaster’’; and 
(4) by striking ‘‘predisaster’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘pre-disaster’’. 
Æ 
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