§ 5158. Availability of materials

Statutory text

The President is authorized, at the request of the Governor of an affected State, to provide for a survey of construction materials needed in the area affected by a major disaster on an emergency basis for housing repairs, replacement housing, public facilities repairs and replacement, farming operations, and business enterprises and to take appropriate action to assure the availability and fair distribution of needed materials, including, where possible, the allocation of such materials for a period of not more than one hundred and eighty days after such major disaster. Any allocation program shall be implemented by the President to the extent possible, by working with and through those companies which traditionally supply construction materials in the affected area. For the purposes of this section “construction materials” shall include building materials and materials required for repairing housing, replacement housing, public facilities repairs and replacement, and for normal farm and business operations.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1974
Pub. L. 93–288 title III § 315 · 88 Stat. 143
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 5158
Pub. L. 93–288, title III, § 315, formerly § 318, May 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 152
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 93–288, title III, § 315, formerly § 318, May 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 152
Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 315. (a) The President, in consultation with the head of each 42 USC 5155. Federal agency administering any program providing financial assistance to persons, business concerns, or other entities suffering losses as the result of a major disaster, shall assure that no such person, business concern, or other entity will receive such assistance with respect to any part of such loss as to which he has received financial assistance under any other program. (b) The President shall assure that no person, business concern, or other entity receives any Federal assistance for any part of a loss suffered as the result of a major disaster if such person, concern, or entity received compensation from insurance or any other source for that part of such a loss. Partial compensation for a loss or a part of a loss resulting from a major disaster shall not preclude additional Federal assistance for any part of such a loss not compensated otherwise. (c) Whenever the President determines (1) that a person, business concern, or other entity has received assistance under this Act for a loss and that such person, business concern or other entity received assistance for the same loss from another source, and (2) that the amount received from all sources exceeded the amount of the loss, he shall direct such person, business concern, or other entity to pay to the Treasury an amount, not to exceed the amount of Federal assistance received, sufficient to reimburse the Federal Government for that part of the assistance which he deems excessive.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 315 of Pub. L. 93–288 was classified to section 5155 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 100–707.

Credits

1974–1988 · 2 acts

1974Pub. L. 93–288, title III, § 315, formerly § 318, May 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 152
1988renumbered § 315, Pub. L. 100–707, title I, § 105(l), Nov. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 4694.

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(Pub. L. 93–288, title III, § 315, formerly § 318, May 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 152; renumbered § 315, Pub. L. 100–707, title I, § 105(l), Nov. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 4694.)