To authorize appropriations for carrying out the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 for fiscal years 2000 and 2001, and for other purposes.
Earthquake Hazards Reduction Authorization Act of 1999 - Amends the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 to authorize appropriations to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for earthquake hazards reduction for FY 2000 and 2001.
Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 and 2001 to the Secretary of the Interior for carrying out, through the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), responsibilities assigned under the Act, with specified amounts available for the Global Seismic Network and the Scientific Earthquake Studies Advisory Committee. Makes specified amounts available for FY 2000 and 2001 for a related USGS grant program.
Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 2000 and 2001 for a USGS program to develop a prototype real-time seismic warning system.
Authorizes appropriations under the Act for FY 2000 and 2001 for National Science Foundation (NSF) engineering and geosciences research and for the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Repeals a provision regarding non-Federal cost sharing for supplemental funds.
Requires the USGS Director to: (1) establish an Advanced National Seismic Research and Monitoring System to modernize, standardize, and stabilize the national, regional, and urban seismic monitoring systems in the United States into a coordinated system; and (2) transmit a five-year management plan for the System to Congress. Authorizes appropriations.
Requires the NSF Director to establish a Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation that will upgrade, link, and integrate a system of geographically distributed experimental facilities for earthquake engineering testing of full-sized structures and their components and partial-scale physical models. Authorizes appropriations.
Requires the USGS Director to establish a Scientific Earthquake Studies Advisory Committee.
Requires the FEMA Director to report to Congress on elements of the earthquake hazards reduction program that specifically address the needs of at-risk populations, including the elderly, persons with disabilities, non-English-speaking families, single-parent households, and the poor. Requires such report to make recommendations for additional legislative authority required to address such needs.
Sets forth Buy American requirements with respect to assistance expended by entities under this Act. Expresses the sense of Congress that entities receiving assistance under this Act should purchase only American-made equipment and products with such assistance. Makes persons who have labeled products not made in the United States as "Made in America" ineligible for contracts made with funds provided by this Act.
Held at the desk.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Science. H. Rept. 106-99, Part I.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Science. H. Rept. 106-99, Part I.
House Committee on Resources Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than April 19, 1999.
Committee on Resources discharged.
Committee on Resources discharged.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 56.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 142 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 1184 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by section. Bill is open to amendments. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Science now printed in the bill.
Rule H. Res. 142 passed House.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 142. (consideration: CR H2219-2225)
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 1184 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by section. Bill is open to amendments. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Science now printed in the bill.
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House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 142 and Rule XXIII.
The Speaker designated the Honorable Ray LaHood to act as Chairman of the Committee.
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 1184.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 1184.
The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 414 - 3 (Roll no. 95).
Roll Call #95 (House)On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 414 - 3 (Roll no. 95).
Roll Call #95 (House)Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.