FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY Disaster Relief (including transfer of funds) For emergency disaster assistance payments necessary to provide for expenses in presidentially-declared disasters under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, an additional amount for “Disaster relief”, $943,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which $143,000,000 shall be available only after submission to the Congress of a formal budget request by the President designating the $143,000,000 as an emergency: Provided, That up to $1,250,000 of the funds made available under this heading may be transferred to, and merged with, amounts made available to the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the heading “Salaries and expenses” in the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992 (Public Law 102–139): Provided further, That hereafter, beginning in fiscal year 1993, and in each year thereafter, notwithstanding any other provision of law, all amounts appropriated for disaster assistance payments under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) that are in excess of either the historical annual average obligation of $320,000,000, or the amount submitted in the President’s initial budget request, whichever is lower, shall be considered as “emergency requirements” pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and such amounts shall hereafter be so designated.