Title: Relief for Recovering Communities Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Relief for Recovering Communities Act
This bill requires the Department of Transportation to treat an area as an "urbanized area" following a major disaster under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act until the second decennial census conducted after such disaster if:
An area treated as an urbanized area shall be assigned the population and square miles of the urban cluster with respect to the area designated by Commerce in the most recent decennial census. This designation as an urbanized area permits an application for federal transit funding based upon population levels in the area prior to the major disaster.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3452 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3452

To amend section 5307 of title 49, United States Code, with respect to 
  the treatment of a community as an urbanized area following a major 
                               disaster.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2017

Mr. Weber of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
           the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend section 5307 of title 49, United States Code, with respect to 
  the treatment of a community as an urbanized area following a major 
                               disaster.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Relief for Recovering Communities 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AVAILABILITY OF URBANIZED AREA FORMULA GRANTS FOLLOWING A MAJOR 
              DISASTER.

    Section 5307 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(i) Urbanized Areas Following a Major Disaster.--
            ``(1) Major disaster defined.--In this section, the term 
        `major disaster' has the meaning given such term in section 
        102(2) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
        Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122(2)).
            ``(2) Urbanized area major disaster population criteria.--
        Notwithstanding section 5302, the Secretary shall treat an area 
        as an `urbanized area' for purposes of this section until the 
        second decennial census conducted after a major disaster in 
        such area if--
                    ``(A) the population of the area fell below 50,000 
                as a result of such major disaster;
                    ``(B) the area was defined and designated as an 
                `urbanized area' by the Secretary of Commerce in the 
                decennial census immediately preceding such major 
                disaster, beginning with the 2000 decennial census; and
                    ``(C) the area was not so defined and designated in 
                the decennial census immediately following such major 
                disaster.
            ``(3) Population calculation.--An area treated as an 
        `urbanized area' under this subsection shall be assigned the 
        population and square miles of the urban cluster with respect 
        to the area designated by the Secretary of Commerce in the most 
        recent decennial census.
            ``(4) Savings provision.--Nothing in this subsection may be 
        construed to affect apportionments made under this chapter 
        before the date of the enactment of this subsection.''.
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