Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1992, for Disaster Assistance To Meet Urgent Needs Because of Calamities Such as Those Which Occurred in Los Angeles and Chicago
PL 102-302 (H.R.5132), enacted 06/22/1992

106 STAT. 248 
PUBLIC LAW 102-302-JUNE 22, 1992 
Public Law 102-302 
102d Congress 
An Act 
June 22,1992 
[H.R. 5132] 
Dire Emergency 
Supplemental 
Appropriations 
Act, 1992, for 
Disaster 
Assistance 
To Meet Urgent 
Needs Because 
of Calamities 
Such as Those 
Which Occurred 
in Los Angeles 
and Chicago. 
Making dire emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster assistance to meet 
urgent needs because of calamities svich as those which occiurred in Los Angeles 
and Chicago, for the fiscal year ending September 30,1992, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 
following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the TVeasury 
not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending Septem-
ber 30,1992, and for other purposes, namely: 
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 
DISASTER LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For an additional amount for the cost of direct loans, 
$169,650,000, to remain available imtil expended, of which 
$50,895,000 shall be available only to the extent that a Presidential 
designation of a specific dollar amount as an emergency requirement 
as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985 is transmitted to the Congress, to subsidize additional 
gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans not to 
exceed $500,000,000, and in addition, for administrative expenses 
to ceirry out the disaster loan program, an additional $25,000,000, 
to remain available until e^>ended, which may be transferred to 
and merged with appropriations for "Salaries and expenses": Pro-
vided, That Congress hereby designates these amounts as emer-
gency requirements for all piuposes of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
BUSINESS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For an additional amount for the cost of section 7(a) guaranteed 
loans (15 U.S.C. 636(a)), $70,325,000, to remain available until 
expended, and in addition, for administrative expenses to carry 
out the Business Loan Program, an additional $2,000,000, to remain 
available luitil expended, which may be transferred to and merged 
with appropriations for "Salaries and expenses": Provided, TTiat 
Congress hereby designates these €unounts as emergency require-
ments for all purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
In addition, for the cost of direct loans authorized under the 
Microloan Demonstration Program (15 U.S.C. 636(m)), $5,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, and in addition, for grants 
in conjunction with such direct loans, $4,000,000, to remain avail-
able imtil expended and to be merged with appropriations for "Sala-
ries and expenses": Provided, ITiat Congress hereby designates 
these amounts as emergency requirements for all purposes of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
PUBLIC LAW 102-302—JUNE 22,1992 
106 STAT. 249 
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 
FEDERAL BUREAU OP INVESTIGATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
The language under this heading in the Departments of Com-
merce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1992 (Public Law 102-140; 105 Stat. 788-
789), is amended by deleting the following: *
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f which not to exceed 
$500,000 is authorized to be made available for making payments 
or advances for esroenses arising out of contractual or reimbursable 
agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies while 
engaged in cooperative activities related to terrorism and drug 
investigations", and inserting in Ueu thereof: "of which not to exceed 
$5,000,000 is authorized to be made available for making payments 
or advances for expenses arising out of contractual or reimbursable 
agreements with State and local law enforcement agencies while 
engaged in cooperative activities related to terrorism, violent crime 
and Gb:iig investigations". 
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY 
DISASTER RELIEF 
For emergency disaster assistance payments necessary to provide 
for expenses in presidentially-declared disasters under the Robert 
T. Stafford Disaster ReUef and Emergency Assistance Act, an addi-
tional amoimt for "Disaster reher, $300,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That Congress hereby designates 
this amount as an emergency requirement for all purposes of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
DISASTER ASSISTANCE DIRECT LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
The limitation on direct loans in the current fiscal year for the 
"Disaster assistance direct loan program account" is increased, 
within existing funds, by $22,000,000 to not exceed $28,000,000. 
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 
EMPLOYMENT A
N
D TRAINING ADMINISTRATION 
TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES 
For an additional amount for "Training and Employment Serv-
ices," $500,000,000, to be available for obUgation for the period 
July 1, 1991, through June 30, 1992, to carry out part B of title 
II of the Job Training Partnership Act: Provided, That notice of 
eligibility of funds shall be given by July 1, 1992: Provided further, 
That the Secretary, to the extent practicable consistent with the 
preceding proviso, shall utilize the 1990 census data in allocating 
the funds appropriated herein: Provided further. That, for the pur-
poses of this Act, of the funds appropriated herein, the first 
$100,000,000 will be made available by the Secretary to the service 
delivery areas containing the seventy-five cities with the largest 
population as determined by the 1990 census data, in accordance 
with the formula criteria contained in section 201(bXl) of the Job 
Training Partnership Act: Provided further. That Congress hereby 
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PUBLIC LAW 102-302—JUNE 22, 1992 
designates these amounts as emergency requirements for all pur-
poses of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $1,500,000 
for law enforcement training activities of the Center, to remain 
available until expended. 
BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For £in additional amoimt for "Salaries and expenses", $5,500,000 
for the hiring, trsdning and equipping of additional full-time equiva-
lent positions for violent crime task forces and for increased costs 
associated with the Los Angeles riot, to remedn avedlable imtil 
expended. 
UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR AND MARINE INTERDICTION 
PROGRAMS 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the funds made available under this heading in PubUc Law 
102-141, $3,400,000 are rescinded. 
UNITED STATES MINT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the funds made available under this heading in Public Law 
102-141, $500,000 are rescinded. 
BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the funds made available under this heading in Public Law 
102-141, $800,000 are rescinded. 
UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the funds made available under this heading in PubUc Law 
102-141, $1,765,000 are rescinded. 
PUBLIC LAW 102-302—JUNE 22,1992 
106 STAT. 251 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 
OFFICE O
F NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL PoucY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the funds made available under this heading in Public Law 
102-141, $1,000,000 are rescinded. 
SENSE OF THE SENATE WITH RESPECT TO FEDERAL ENTERPRISE ZONES 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Senate finds that: 
(1) The crisis of poverty and high unemployment in America's 
inner cities and rural areas demands an appropriate and timely 
response 
from 
Congress; 
(2) Manufacturing and industry has largely disappeared frx)m 
many United States inner cities which, in turn, led to the 
severe decline in good high-wage jobs, wholesale trade, retail 
businesses, and a large source of local tax revenues; 
(3) Encouraging small and medium-sized businesses, which 
create the msgority of new jobs in the United States economy, 
to locate and invest in poor neighborhoods is one of the keys 
to revitalizing urban America; 
(4) Enterprise Zones will help convince businesses to build 
and grow in poor neighborhoods; they will give people incentives 
to invest in such businesses and to hire and train both 
unemployed and economically disadvantaged individuals; they 
will create jobs and stimulate entrepreneurship; and they wiU 
help restore the local tax revenue base to these communities; 
(5) Enterprise Zones have been tested in 37 States since 
1982 and have proven to be successful, having generated capital 
investments in poor neighborhoods in excess of $28,000,000,000 
and having created more than 258,000 jobs; and 
(6) Enterprise Zones have been endorsed by, among others, 
the National Governors Association, the National Council of 
State Legislators, the Council of Black State Legislators, the 
Conference of Mayors, and the Conference of Black Mayors. 
(b) SENSE O
F T
H
E SENATE.—It is the sense of the Senate that— 
(1) Enterprise 2k)nes are a vital, proven tool for inner-city 
revitalization; and 
(2) Congress should adopt Federal enterprise zone legisla-
tion and that such legislation should include the following 
provisions: 
(A) Competitive designation which will maximize State 
and local participation; 
(B) Tax incentives addressing both capital and labor 
costs; 
(C) Tax incentives aimed at attracting investment in 
small business; and 
(D) Tax incentives to encourage the hiring and training 
of economically disadvantaged individuals. 
106 STAT. 252 
PUBLIC LAW 102-302—JUNE 22, 1992 
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION 
49USCapp. 
For fisceil years 1992 and 1993, funds provided under section 
1607a note. 
9 ^f ^Q Federal Transit Act shall be exempt from requirements 
for any non-Federal share, in the same manner as specified in 
section 1054 of PubUc Law 102-240. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 101. EMERGENCY RELIEF. 
Subsection (b) of section 125 of title 23, United States Code, 
is amended by striking "on the Federal-aid highway systems includ-
ing the Interstate System" in two places and inserting in each 
place "on Federal-aid highways". 
SEC. 102. RURAL AGRICULTURAL DISASTERS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— 
(1) Hke the residents of Chicago and Los Angeles who have 
suffered severe losses due to recent disasters, agricultural pro-
ducers suffered severe losses as a result of natural disasters 
; during the 1990 through 1992 crop years; 
(2) repeated operating losses due to natured disasters have 
placed agricultural producers in financial stress and have 
caused increased loan deUnquencies to agricultural lenders; 
(3) the economics of communities in affected areas have been 
depressed as a result of crop failures; and 
C4) the matter under the heading "COMMODITY CREDIT COR-
PORATION" of chapter III of title I of PubUc Law 102-229 (105 
Stat. 1712) grants the President the authority to declare 
$755,000,000 as emergency appropriations for agricultural dis-
asters during the 1990 through 1992 crop years. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—^It is the sense of Congress that the 
President should exercise the authority referred to in subsection 
(a)(4) to make emergency designations for rural agricultural disas-
ters, as well as the urban disasters in Chicago and Los Angeles. 
SEC. 103. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS. 
Section 115 of title 23, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking the heading of subsection (a) and inserting 
the following new heading: "SUBSTITUTE, CONGESTION MITIGA-
TION AND AIR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT, SURFACE TRANSPOR-
TATION, BRIDGE, PLANNING, AND RESEARCH PROJECTS"; 
(2) in subsection (a)— 
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(A) by striking clause (i) of paragraph (1)(A) and inserting 
the following new clause: 
"(i) has obligated all funds apportioned or allocated to 
it under section 103(e)(4XH), 104(b)(2), 104(bX3), 104(f), 
144, or 307 of this title, or"; 
(B) by striking subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) and 
inserting the following new subparagraph: 
"(A) prior to commencement of the project the Secretary 
approves the project in the same manner as the Secretary 
approves other projects, and"; and 
(C) by striking paragraph (3); 
(3) in the heading of subsection (b), by striking "PRIMARY" 
and inserting "NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM"; 
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106 STAt. 253 
(4) in paragraph (1) of subsection (b), by striking "Federal-
aid primary system" and inserting "National Highway System"; 
(5) in subsection (c), by striking "152"; and 
(6) by striking subsection (d) of section 115 and inserting 
the following new subsection: 
"(d) LIMITATION ON ADVANCED FUNDING.—^The Secretary may not 
approve an application under this section unless an authorization 
for section 103(eX4), 104, 144, or 307 of this title, as the case 
may be, is in effect for the fiscal year for which the application 
is sought beyond the currently authorized funds for each State. 
No applications may be approved which will exceed the State's 
expected apportionment of such authorizations.". 
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ADVERTISING. 
Section 131(n) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new sentence: "Funds apportioned 
to a State under section 104 of this title shall not be treated 
for purposes of the preceding sentence as being available to the 
State for making such a payment except to the extent that the 
State, in its discretion, expends such funds for such a pa3naient.". 
SEC. 105. 
(a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to provide any grant, loan, or other assistance to any person who 
is convicted of committing a riot-related crime of violence in the 
City or County of Los ^ g e l e s , California, during the period of 
unrest occurring April 29 through May 9,1992. 
(b) None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to provide any grant, loan, or other assistance to any person who— 
(1) is under arrest for, or 
(2) is subject to a pending chEirge of committing a riot-related 
crime of violence in the City or County of Los Angeles, Califor-
nia, during the period of unrest occurring April 29 through 
May 9, 1992: Provided, That the prohibition on the use of 
funds in (b) shall not apply if a period of 90 days or more 
has elapsed firom the date of such person being arrested for 
or charged with such crime: Provided further, 
That should 
such person be convicted of a riot-related crime of violence 
cited in (a)v^and (b), such person shall provide to the agency 
or agencies \ ^ c h provided such assistance, payments equiva-
lent to the amount of assistance provided. 
(c) All appropriate Federal agencies shall take the necessary 
actions to carry out the provisions of this section. 
(d) APPLICANT CERTIFICATION.—^Any apphcant for aid provided 
iinder this Act shall certify to the Federcd agency providing such 
aid that the apphcant is not a person described in subsection 
(a) or acting on behalf of such person. 
(e) DEFINITION.—^For purposes of this section, the term "riot-
related crime of violence" means any State or Federal offense as 
defined in section 16 of title 18, United States Code. 
SEC. 106. HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, up to $5,000,000 
of the funds made available for foreign operations, export financing, 
and related programs in Public Law 102-145, as amended by PubUc 
Laws 102-163 and 102-266, and previous Acts making appropria-
tions for foreign operations, export fineuicing, and related programs, 
shall be made available for humanitarian assistance to Bosnia-
106 STAT. 254 
PUBLIC LAW 102-302—JUNE 22, 1992 
Hercegovina: Provided, That such assistance may only be made 
available through private voluntary organizations, the United 
Nations and other international and nongovernmental organiza-
tions: Provided further, That funds made available under this para-
graph shall be made available only through the regular notification 
procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 
TTiis Act may be cited as the "Dire Emergency Supplemental 
Appropriations Act, 1992, for Disaster Assistance To Meet Urgent 
Needs Because of Calamities Such as Those Which Occiured in 
Los Angeles and Chicago". 
Approved June 22, 1992. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 5132: 
HOUSE REPORTS: Nos. 102-518 (Ck>nun. on Appropriations) and 102-577 
(Conun. of Conference). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 138 (1992): 
May 14, considered and passed House. 
May 20, 21, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
June 18, House agreed to conference report; receded and concurred in certain 
Senate amendment, in others with amendments. Senate agreed to conference 
report; concurred in House amendments. 
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 28 (1992): 
June 22, Presidential remarks and statement.