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Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.","cite":{"label":"Title VI, “DISASTER RELIEF FUND”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#idEDB621D86B8C47E3AC4CE0F12056E987"}},{"text":"Provides $1,450,000,000 to the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire Assistance Account to carry out the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire Assistance Act.","cite":{"label":"Title VI, “HERMIT’S PEAK/CALF CANYON FIRE ASSISTANCE ACCOUNT”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id1E277BA08E364F5F97B9C2256B43D119"}},{"text":"Provides $519,200,000 to the Army Corps of Engineers' Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies account to prepare for and respond to floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.","cite":{"label":"Title IV, “FLOOD CONTROL AND COASTAL EMERGENCIES”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#idFF4FF8DE09E3447FAE78BE946B4049FA"}},{"text":"Provides $3,000,000,000 to the Community Development Fund, for the same purposes and under the same terms as the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022, but for major disasters that occurred in 2022 or later.","cite":{"label":"Title X, “COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id0851BAA1D33442B6AF9E5C150991284F"}},{"text":"Provides $1,000,000,000 and a further $2,500,000,000 under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance heading for payments under section 2602(b) of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981.","cite":{"label":"Title VIII, “LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id9A06C85121CC44DC9464BE873EAC4046"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"off_subject","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Title I, “BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id662B653910C0430488F5D256BCD01119"},"heading":"","effect":"Provides $58,000,000 for \"Buildings and Facilities\" under the Department of Agriculture title, to remain available until expended.","amount":"$58,000,000","quote":"For an additional amount for “Buildings and Facilities”, $58,000,000, to remain available until expended."},{"cite":{"label":"Title I, “Food safety and inspection service”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id7FCF419C708242C29B5FF3260F3FDB9B"},"heading":"","effect":"Provides $29,700,000 for the Food Safety and Inspection Service, to remain available until expended.","amount":"$29,700,000","quote":"For an additional amount for “Food Safety and Inspection Service”, $29,700,000, to remain available until expended."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 102","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id8C689F8856C7431EB0393A0877D5BBFD"},"heading":"","effect":"Appropriates $125,000,000 for Agriculture Quarantine and Inspection Services salaries to offset lost quarantine and inspection fee collections.","amount":"$125,000,000","quote":"to offset the loss of quarantine and inspection fees collected pursuant to sections 2508 and 2509 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990"},{"cite":{"label":"Title II, “ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id2CBD906618C44B2EA7FF81237848C723"},"heading":"","effect":"Provides $500,000,000 for disaster-area economic development and, in a separate paragraph, $618,000,000 for grants under sections 28 and 29 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act; it also lets the Commerce Secretary hire temporary staff outside competitive service rules.","amount":"$618,000,000","quote":"For an additional amount for “Economic Development Assistance Programs” for grants authorized by sections 28 and 29 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3722a and 3722b), $618,000,000"},{"cite":{"label":"Title II, “INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id6F35AF2732D1445196FA34E90EA298E2"},"heading":"","effect":"Provides $27,000,000 to implement the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act, with $13,000,000 for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership and $14,000,000 for the Manufacturing USA Program.","amount":"$27,000,000","quote":"to implement the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act (division B of Public Law 117–167), of which $13,000,000 shall be for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership"},{"cite":{"label":"Title II, “OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id5DEC2AE6F98347C7B254C2FCD1C04ECE"},"heading":"","effect":"Provides $29,000,000 for hurricane and wildfire consequences and, in a second paragraph, $62,000,000, of which $20,000,000 is for fishing gear activities to reduce entanglement risk to North Atlantic right whales.","amount":"$20,000,000","quote":"to support the adoption of innovative fishing gear deployment and fishing techniques to reduce entanglement risk to North Atlantic right whales"},{"cite":{"label":"Title II, “PROCUREMENT, ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#idB659D4621F17475F8B07C90CD68B0A56"},"heading":"","effect":"Provides $327,701,000 for hurricane hunter aircraft and related expenses, and a separate $108,838,000 to remain available until September 30, 2025.","amount":"$108,838,000","quote":"For an additional amount for “Procurement, Acquisition and Construction”, $108,838,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025."},{"cite":{"label":"Title II, “BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id8641C52D54DF416EAAB295E435105FD8"},"heading":"","effect":"Provides $182,000,000 for \"Buildings and 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Law 117–167)"},{"cite":{"label":"Title IV, “Electricity”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#idB3E338F743094288AA97F17938E85F48"},"heading":"","effect":"Provides $1,000,000,000 to improve the resilience of the Puerto Rican electric grid, including grants to low and moderate income households and households with individuals with disabilities for renewable energy and storage.","amount":"$1,000,000,000","quote":"to carry out activities to improve the resilience of the Puerto Rican electric grid, including grants for low and moderate income households and households that include individuals with disabilities"},{"cite":{"label":"Title IV, “Construction, Rehabilitation, Operation and Maintenance, Western Area Power Administration”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id078617F6358E4D2885D3E72586F83911"},"heading":"","effect":"Provides $520,000,000 to the Western Area Power Administration for purchase of power and transmission services, reimbursable from its collections, and allows up to $100,000,000 to be transferred to its Colorado River Basins Power Marketing Fund.","amount":"$520,000,000","quote":"for the purchase of power and transmission services: Provided, That the amount made available under this heading in this Act shall be derived from the general fund of the Treasury"},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 602","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id731A1A51F54B48E19A3BE322B0B4A73D"},"heading":"","effect":"Appropriates $309,000,000 for customs and immigration inspection and pre-inspection services at ports of entry to offset lost Immigration User Fee receipts and certain customs service fees.","amount":"$309,000,000","quote":"to offset the loss of Immigration User Fee receipts collected pursuant to section 286(h) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356(h))"}]},{"category":"named_funding","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Title II, “PAYMENT TO THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#idEC84B396FF2C44AF8CC5380781B8DD48"},"heading":"","effect":"Provides $20,000,000 to the Legal Services Corporation for expenses related to the consequences of 2022 hurricanes, flooding, wildfires and other extreme weather, and applies funding restrictions from earlier appropriations laws.","amount":"$20,000,000","quote":"to carry out the purposes of the Legal Services Corporation Act by providing for necessary expenses related to the consequences of hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, and other extreme weather"},{"cite":{"label":"Title VII, “United States Fish and Wildlife Service — CONSTRUCTION”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id129313E05DF64C7DA01566B83F94DC7C"},"heading":"","effect":"Provides $247,000,000 for construction related to wildfires, hurricanes and other natural disasters, and names winter storm damages at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge among the covered costs.","amount":"$247,000,000","quote":"including winter storm damages at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge"},{"cite":{"label":"Title VII, “EDUCATION CONSTRUCTION”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id58A3179178D44E3592C38D03A88D5856"},"heading":"","effect":"Provides $90,465,000 for Education Construction expenses related to flooding at the To’Hajiilee Community School.","amount":"$90,465,000","quote":"for necessary expenses related to the consequences of flooding at the To’Hajiilee Community School"}]},{"category":"place_specific_amount","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Title VII, “State and Tribal Assistance Grants”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id72F8EA255C564953AE708C6DBD4AAC9B"},"heading":"","effect":"Directs $1,067,210,000 in State Revolving Fund grants to States or Territories in EPA Regions 2 and 4, and $450,000,000 to EPA Region 4 areas where an emergency was declared in August of fiscal year 2022; a separate $150,000,000 covers the same declared-emergency areas. The funds are exempt from matching requirements.","amount":null,"quote":"shall be provided to States or Territories in EPA Region 4 in amounts determined by the Administrator in areas where there the President declared an emergency in August of fiscal year 2022"},{"cite":{"label":"Title X, “EMERGENCY RELIEF PROGRAM”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id93F79CCC67C04BA08F8E9534A6354B9B"},"heading":"","effect":"Provides $803,000,000 for the Emergency Relief Program and sets the Federal share at 100 percent for emergency relief funds responding to damage caused by Hurricane Fiona, notwithstanding section 120(e) of title 23.","amount":null,"quote":"the Federal share for Emergency Relief funds made available under section 125 of such title to respond to damage caused by Hurricane Fiona, shall be 100 percent"}]},{"category":"selective_carve_out","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 601","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#idF990A5B26E0F4AC4B61985808E8237E6"},"heading":"","effect":"Notwithstanding parts of the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire Assistance Act, lets FEMA compensate for replacement of water treatment facilities instead of temporary injury, up to $140,000,000.","amount":"$140,000,000","quote":"the Federal Emergency Management Agency may compensate for the replacement of water treatment facilities, to the extent necessitated by the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, in lieu of compensating for temporary injury"},{"cite":{"label":"Title VIII, “LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id9A06C85121CC44DC9464BE873EAC4046"},"heading":"","effect":"Provides $1,000,000,000 for Low Income Home Energy Assistance and directs that $500,000,000 be allocated as though the fiscal year 2023 total appropriation was less than $1,975,000,000; a second paragraph adds $2,500,000,000.","amount":"$500,000,000","quote":"$500,000,000 shall be allocated as though the total appropriation for such payments for fiscal year 2023 was less than $1,975,000,000"},{"cite":{"label":"Title IV, “CONSTRUCTION”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id7DD8303C97EA41AAA861C4BAC4D8662B"},"heading":"","effect":"Provides Corps of Engineers construction funds and states that the total project cost limitation in section 902 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 does not apply to projects funded under the first paragraph; it also sets full Federal expense for certain ongoing projects.","amount":null,"quote":"for projects receiving funding in this paragraph in this Act, the limitation concerning total project costs in section 902 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (Public Law 99–662), as amended, shall not apply"},{"cite":{"label":"Title VIII, “PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES EMERGENCY FUND”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#idBB21E9FB567E4C65B159C6CE09418543"},"heading":"","effect":"Provides $128,792,000 for Hurricanes Fiona and Ian consequences, and exempts the transferred Health Centers funds from a time limitation in section 330(e)(3) of the PHS Act and the transferred aging and disability funds from Older Americans Act and Rehabilitation Act allotment and matching requirements.","amount":null,"quote":"the time limitation in section 330(e)(3) of the PHS Act shall not apply to funds made available under the preceding proviso"}]},{"category":"process_change","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 801","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id58A1765E82044C64AFF9136E85F50CC3"},"heading":"","effect":"Lets the Health and Human Services Secretary appoint candidates directly to certain emergency response positions without regard to the competitive hiring provisions of title 5, for 270 days.","amount":null,"quote":"after providing public notice and without regard to the provisions of sections 3309 through 3319 of title 5, United States Code, the Secretary may appoint candidates directly"},{"cite":{"label":"Title IX, “Military Construction, Navy and Marine Corps”","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps#id8F0227EAD7A249DAA6EDBD690E372B15"},"heading":"","effect":"Provides $41,040,000 for Navy and Marine Corps military construction related to Hurricanes Ian and Fiona and allows use for planning, design and military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law.","amount":"$41,040,000","quote":"such funds may be obligated or expended for planning and design and military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law"}]}],"version":{"type":"Failed Passage Senate","date":"2022-12-22","rule":"nearest","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text/fps"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-15","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/5355/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/117-s-5355.png","v":"6d7c659443f5","alt":"Votes on Record. S. 5355, 117th Congress: Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023. Senate: 22 Yea, 73 Nay. Outcome: Failed Senate, 22 Dec 2022."}}