S.Amdt. 413

SA 413. Ms. LANDRIEU submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill H.R. 1268, making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, to establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal, to ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border fence, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

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sense of congress on a comprehensive evacuation plan

(a) Congress makes the following findings:

(1) In the United States, 122,000,000 people, approximately 53 percent of the population, live in coastal countries or parishes.

(2) In the annual occurrence of massive and deadly hurricanes that affect coastal areas in the United States, the lack of adequate highways, planning, and communication sends many people scrambling into grid-locked traffic jams where they are vulnerable to injury and unable to evacuate to safe areas in a reasonable amount of time.

(3) Federal interstate and other highways may be used in an efficient and safe manner to quickly evacuate large populations to safer areas in the event of natural disasters that occur and affect low-lying coastal communities.

(b) It is the sense of Congress that the head of the Federal Highway Administration should develop a comprehensive plan for evacuation of the coastal areas of the United States during any of the variety of natural disasters that affect coastal populations. The plan should include plans for evacuation in the event of a hurricane, flash flooding, tsunami, or other natural or man-made disaster that require mass evacuation.