AMENDMENTS TO TITLE I.

SEC. 103. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE I. (a) Findings and Declarations.—Section 101(b) (42 U.S.C. 5121(b)) is amended— (1) by striking out paragraph (7); (2) by striking out “; and” at the end of paragraph (6); and (3) by inserting “and” at the end of paragraph (5). (b) Definition of Emergency.—Section 102(1) is amended to read as follows: “(1) Emergency.—‘Emergency’ means any occasion or instance for which, in the determination of the President, Federal assistance is needed to supplement State and local efforts and capabilities to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in any part of the United States.”. (c) Definition of Major Disaster.—Section 102(2) is amended to read as follows: 102 STAT. 4690 “(2) Major disaster.—‘Major disaster’ means any natural catastrophe (including any hurricane, tornado, storm, high water, winddriven water, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudslide, snowstorm, or drought), or, regardless of cause, any fire, flood, or explosion, in any part of the United States, which in the determination of the President causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant major disaster assistance under this Act to supplement the efforts and available resources of States, local governments, and disaster relief organizations in alleviating the damage, loss, hardship, or suffering caused thereby.”. (d) Technical Amendments.—Paragraphs (3) and (4) of section 102 are each amended by striking out “the Canal Zone,”. (e) Local Government.— (1) In general.—The term “local government” is deemed to have the same meaning in the Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, as amended by this Act, as that term had on October 1, 1988, under section 102(6) of the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 and regulations implementing the Disaster Relief Act of 1974. (2) Termination of effectiveness.—Paragraph (1) shall not be effective on and after the 90th day after the President transmits to the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate a report which includes an interpretation of the term “local government” for purposes of the Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, as amended by this Act. (f) Definitions of Public and Private Nonprofit Facilities.—Section 102 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraphs: “(8) Public facility.—‘Public facility’ means the following facilities owned by a State or local government: “(A) Any flood control, navigation, irrigation, reclamation, public power, sewage treatment and collection, water supply and distribution, watershed development, or airport facility. “(B) Any non-Federal-aid street, road, or highway. “(C) Any other public building, structure, or system, including those used for educational, recreational, or cultural purposes. “(D) Any park. “(9) Private nonprofit facility.—‘Private nonprofit facility’ means private nonprofit educational, utility, emergency, medical, rehabilitational, and temporary or permanent custodial care facilities (including those for the aged and disabled), other private nonprofit facilities which provide essential services of a governmental nature to the general public, and facilities on Indian reservations as defined by the President.”.