To require grants for Emergency Operations Centers and financial assistance for the predisaster mitigation program to be awarded without regard to earmarks.

SA 1402. Mr. FEINGOLD (for himself and Mr. McCAIN) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1373 proposed by Mr.
Reid (for Mr. Byrd (for himself, Mr. Inouye, and Mrs. Murray)) to the
bill H.R. 2892, making appropriations for the Department of Homeland
Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 32, strike line 19 and all that follows through
page 33, line 22, and insert the following:

Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5196c), which shall be awarded on a
competitive basis: Provided, That the Administrator of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency shall award financial
assistance using amounts made available under the heading
``national predisaster mitigation fund'' under the heading
``Federal Emergency Management Agency'' under this title--
(A) in accordance with section 203 of the Robert T.
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 5133); and
(B) without regard to any congressionally directed spending
item (as defined in rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the
Senate) or any congressional earmark (as defined in rule XXI
of the Rules of the House of Representatives) in a committee
report or joint explanatory statement relating to this Act.
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