Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 68 — Disaster Relief
§ 5204a. Authorization of appropriations for insular areas
Statutory text
There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums as may be necessary to—
reconstruct essential public facilities damaged by disasters in the insular areas that occurred prior to ; and
enhance the survivability of essential public facilities in the event of disasters in the insular areas,
except that with respect to the disaster declared by the President in the case of Hurricane Hugo, September 1989, amounts for any fiscal year shall not exceed 25 percent of the estimated aggregate amount of grants to be made under sections 5170b and 5172 of this title for such disaster. Such sums shall remain available until expended.
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.
Omnibus Insular Areas Act of 1992
Pub. L. 102–247 title II § 202 · 106 Stat. 33
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 5204a
(Pub. L. 102–247, title II, § 202, Feb. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 37.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 102–247, title II, § 202, Feb. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 37.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 202. AUTHORIZATION. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums as may be necessary to— (1) reconstruct essential public facilities damaged by disasters in the insular areas that occurred prior to the date of the enactment of this Act; and (2) enhance the survivability of essential public facilities in the event of disasters in the insular areas, except that with respect to the disaster declared by the President in the case of Hurricane Hugo, September 1989, amounts for any fiscal year shall not exceed 25 percent of the estimated aggregate amount of grants to be made under sections 403 and 406 of The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170b, 5172) for such disaster. Such sums shall remain available until expended.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Omnibus Insular Areas Act of 1992, and not as part of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act which comprises this chapter.