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Problem:SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''National Emergency Management
Restoration and Improvement Act''.

TITLE I--FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

SEC. 101. FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY.

(a) Independent Establishment.--The Federal Emergency Management
Agency shall be an independent establishment in the executive branch.
(b) Director.--
(1) In general.--The Agency shall be headed by a Director,
who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate, and who shall report directly to the
President. The Director of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency shall be compensated at the rate provided for at level I
of the Executive Schedule under section 5312 of title 5, United
States Code.
(2) Qualifications.--The Director of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency shall be appointed from among persons who
have significant experience, knowledge, training, and expertise
in the area of emergency preparedness, response, recovery, and
mitigation as related to natural disasters and other national
cataclysmic events.
(c) Deputy Director.--
(1) In general.--There shall be in the Federal Emergency
Management Agency one Deputy Director, who shall be appointed
by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate. The Deputy Director shall be compensated at the rate
provided for at level II of the Executive Schedule under
section 5313 of title 5, United States Code.
(2) Qualifications.--The Deputy Director shall be appointed
from among persons who have extensive background in disaster
response and disaster preparedness.
(3) Responsibilities.--Subject to the direction and control
of the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the
Deputy Director shall have primary responsibility within the
Agency for natural disasters and non-natural disasters,
including large-scale terrorist attacks.

TITLE II--TRANSFER AND SAVINGS PROVISIONS

SEC. 201. TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS.

There shall be transferred to the Director of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency--
(1) the functions (including the functions under paragraphs
(3) and (8) of section 430(c) of the Homeland Security Act of
2002 (6 U.S.C. 238(c)), personnel, assets, and liabilities of
the Department of Homeland Security relating to the Federal
Emergency Management Agency; and
(2) the functions of the Department of Homeland Security
under sections 502 (other than paragraph (2)) and 503(2) of the
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 312, 313), and the
personnel, assets, and liabilities of the Department relating
to such functions.

SEC. 202. TRANSITION PERIOD.

The transfers under this title shall be carried out as soon as
practicable after the date of enactment of this Act. During the
transition period, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide to
the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency such
assistance, including the use of personnel and assets, as the Director
may request in preparing for the transfer.

SEC. 203. PERSONNEL PROVISIONS.

(a) Appointments.--The Director of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency may appoint and fix the compensation of such officers and
employees, including investigators, attorneys, and administrative law
judges, as may be necessary to carry out the respective functions
transferred under this title. Except as otherwise provided by law, such
officers and employees shall be appointed in accordance with the civil
service laws and their compensation fixed in accordance with title 5,
United States Code.
(b) Experts and Consultants.--The Director of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency may obtain the services of experts and consultants in
accordance with section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, and
compensate such experts and consultants for each day (including
traveltime) at rates not in excess of the rate of pay for level IV of
the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of such title. The Director
of the Federal Emergency Management Agency may pay experts and
consultants who are serving away from their homes or regular place of
business, travel expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence at rates
authorized by sections 5702 and 5703 of such title for persons in
Government service employed intermittently.

SEC. 204. DELEGATION AND ASSIGNMENT.

Except where otherwise expressly prohibited by law or otherwise
provided by this title, the Director of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency may delegate any of the functions transferred to the
Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency by this title and
any function transferred or granted to such Director after the
effective date of this title to such officers and employees of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency as the Director may designate, and
may authorize successive redelegations of such functions as may be
necessary or appropriate. No delegation of functions by the Director of
the Federal Emergency Management Agency under this section or under any
other provision of this title shall relieve such Director of
responsibility for the administration of such functions.

SEC. 205. REORGANIZATION.

The Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is
authorized to allocate or reallocate any function transferred under
section 201 among the officers of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency, and to establish, consolidate, alter, or discontinue such
organizational entities in the Federal Emergency Management Agency as
may be necessary or appropriate.

SEC. 206. RULES.

The Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is
authorized to prescribe, in accordance with the provisions of chapters
5 and 6 of title 5, United States Code, such rules and regulations as
the Director determines necessary or appropriate to administer and
manage the functions of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

SEC. 207. TRANSFER AND ALLOCATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS AND PERSONNEL.

Except as otherwise provided in this title, the personnel employed
in connection with, and the assets, liabilities, contracts, property,
records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, authorizations,
allocations, and other funds employed, used, held, arising from,
available to, or to be made available in connection with the functions
transferred by this title, subject to section 1531 of title 31, United
States Code, shall be transferred to the Federal Emergency Management
Agency. Unexpended funds transferred pursuant to this section shall be
used only for the purposes for which the funds were originally
authorized and appropriated.

SEC. 208. INCIDENTAL TRANSFERS.

The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, at such time
or times as the Director shall provide, is authorized to make such
determinations as may be necessary with regard to the functions
transferred by this title, and to make such additional incidental
dispositions of personnel, assets, liabilities, grants, contracts,
property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations,
authorizations, allocations, and other funds held, used, arising from,
available to, or to be made available in connection with such
functions, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this
title. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall
provide for the termination of the affairs of all entities terminated
by this title and for such further measures and dispositions as may be
necessary to effectuate the purposes of this title.

SEC. 209. EFFECT ON PERSONNEL.

(a) In General.--Except as otherwise provided by this title, the
transfer pursuant to this title of full-time personnel (except special
Government employees) and part-time personnel holding permanent
positions shall not cause any such employee to be separated or reduced
in grade or compensation for one year after the date of transfer of
such employee under this title.
(b) Executive Schedule Positions.--Except as otherwise provided in
this title, any person who, on the day preceding the effective date of
this title, held a position compensated in accordance with the
Executive Schedule prescribed in chapter 53 of title 5, United States
Code, and who, without a break in service, is appointed in the Federal
Emergency Management Agency to a position having duties comparable to
the duties performed immediately preceding such appointment shall
continue to be compensated in such new position at not less than the
rate provided for such previous position, for the duration of the
service of such person in such new position.

SEC. 210. SAVINGS PROVISIONS.

(a) Continuing Effect of Legal Documents.--All orders,
determinations, rules, regulations, permits, agreements, grants,
contracts, certificates, licenses, registrations, privileges, and other
administrative actions--
(1) which have been issued, made, granted, or allowed to
become effective by the President, any Federal agency or
official thereof, or by a court of competent jurisdiction, in
the performance of functions which are transferred under this
title, and
(2) which are in effect at the time this title takes
effect, or were final before the effective date of this title
and are to become effective on or after the effective date of
this title,
shall continue in effect according to their terms until modified,
terminated, superseded, set aside, or revoked in accordance with law by
the President, the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
or other authorized official, a court of competent jurisdiction, or by
operation of law.
(b) Proceedings not Affected.--The provisions of this title shall
not affect any proceedings, including notices of proposed rulemaking,
or any application for any license, permit, certificate, or financial
assistance pending before the Federal Emergency Management Agency at
the time this title takes effect, with respect to functions transferred
by this title 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
proceedings shall continue in effect until modified, terminated,
superseded, or revoked by a duly authorized official, by a court of
competent jurisdiction, or by operation of law. Nothing in this
subsection shall be deemed to prohibit the discontinuance or
modification of any such proceeding under the same terms and conditions
and to the same extent that such proceeding could have been
discontinued or modified if this title had not been enacted.
(c) Suits not Affected.--The provisions of this title shall not
affect suits commenced before the effective date of this title, and in
all such suits, proceedings shall be had, appeals taken, and judgments
rendered in the same manner and with the same effect as if this title
had not been enacted.
(d) Nonabatement of Actions.--No suit, action, or other proceeding
commenced by or against the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or by
or against any individual in the official capacity of such individual
as an officer of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, shall abate
by reason of the enactment of this title.
(e) Administrative Actions Relating to Promulgation of
Regulations.--Any administrative action relating to the preparation or
promulgation of a regulation by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
relating to a function transferred under this title may be continued by
the Federal Emergency Management Agency with the same effect as if this
title had not been enacted.

SEC. 211. REFERENCES.

Any reference in any other Federal law, Executive order, rule,
regulation, or delegation of authority, or any document of or
pertaining to a department, agency, or office from which a function is
transferred by this title--
(1) to the head of such department, agency, or office is
deemed to refer to the head of the department, 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. 212. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS AND REPEALS.

(a) Homeland Security Act of 2002.--
(1) Section 504.--Section 504(a) of the Homeland Security
Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 314(a)) is amended by striking '', major
disaster,''.
(2) Repeals.--The following provisions of the Homeland
Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101 et seq.) are repealed:
(A) Section 2(11).
(B) Section 503(1).
(C) Section 507.
(D) Section 508.
(b) Title 5, United States Code.--
(1) Director.--Section 5312 of title 5, United States Code,
is amended by adding at the end the following:
''Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.''.
(2) Deputy director.--Section 5313 of title 5, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
''Deputy Director of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency.''.
(c) Additional Conforming Amendments.--
(1) Recommended legislation.--After consultation with the
appropriate committees of the Congress and the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget, the Director of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency shall prepare and submit to
Congress recommended legislation containing technical and
conforming amendments to reflect the changes made by this Act.
(2) Submission to congress.--Not later than 6 months after
the effective date of this title, the Director of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency shall submit the recommended
legislation referred to under subsection (a).

SEC. 213. LIMITATION ON STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION.

Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the primary mission
of the Department of Homeland Security set forth in subparagraphs (A),
(B), (E), (F), (G), and (H) of section 101(b) of the Homeland Security
Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 111(b)).
Solution:
National Emergency Management Restoration and Improvement Act - Establishes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as an independent establishment in the executive branch.

Requires the FEMA Director to be appointed, by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, from among persons who have significant expertise in the area of emergency preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation as related to natural disasters and other national cataclysmic events.