To ensure that Federal disaster assistance is available for the most severe disasters, and for other purposes.

SA 3371. Mr. COBURN (for himself and Mr. McCain) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3338 proposed by Mr.
Leahy (for Mr. Inouye (for himself and Mr. Lautenberg)) to the bill
H.R. 1, making appropriations for the Department of Defense and the
other departments and agencies of the Government for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2011, and for other purposes; as follows:

At the appropriate place insert the following:
Sec. 52007.  (a) Not later than 180 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (in this section referred to as
the ``Administrator'') shall review the public assistance per
capita damage indicator and shall initiate rulemaking to
update such damage indicator. Such review and rulemaking
process shall ensure that the per capita indicator is fully
adjusted for annual inflation for all years since 1986, by
not later than January 1, 2016.
(b) Not later than 365 days after the date of enactment of
this Act, the Administrator shall--
(1) submit a report to the committees of jurisdiction in
Congress on the initiative to modernize the per capita damage
indicator; and
(2) present recommendations for new measures to assess the
capacities of States to respond and recover to disasters,
including threat and hazard identification and risk
assessments by States and total taxable resources available
within States for disaster recovery and response.
(c) As used in this section, the term ``State'' means--
(1) a State;
(2) the District of Columbia;
(3) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico;
(4) any other territory or possession of the United States;
and
(5) any land under the jurisdiction of an Indian tribe, as
defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and
Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b).
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