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115TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION S. 1768

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition

to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Transportation and Infra-

structure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in

each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-

tion of the committee concerned

AN ACT To reauthorize and amend the National Earthquake Hazards

Reduction Program, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1

tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2

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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Earthquake 2

Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 3

2018’’. 4

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. 5

(a) FINDINGS.—Section 2 of the Earthquake Haz-6

ards Reduction Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7701) is amend-7

ed— 8

(1) in paragraph (1)— 9

(A) by inserting ‘‘, and the Commonwealth 10

of Puerto Rico,’’ after ‘‘States’’; 11

(B) by inserting ‘‘Oregon,’’ after ‘‘New 12

York,’’; and 13

(C) by inserting ‘‘Tennessee,’’ after ‘‘South 14

Carolina’’; 15

(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘prediction 16

techniques and’’; 17

(3) by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the 18

following: 19

‘‘(4) A well-funded seismological research pro-20

gram could provide the scientific understanding 21

needed to fully implement an effective earthquake 22

early warning system.’’; 23

(4) in paragraphs (6) and (7), by striking ‘‘life-24

lines’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘lifeline 25

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(5) by adding at the end the following: 1

‘‘(12) The built environment has generally been 2

constructed and maintained to meet the needs of the 3

users under normal conditions. When earthquakes 4

occur, the built environment is generally designed to 5

prevent severe injuries or loss of human life and is 6

not expected to remain operational or able to recover 7

under any specified schedule. 8

‘‘(13) The National Research Council published 9

a study on reducing hazards and risks associated 10

with earthquakes based on the goals and objectives 11

for achieving national earthquake resilience de-12

scribed in the strategic plan entitled ‘Strategic Plan 13

for the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction 14

Program’. The study and an accompanying report 15

called for work in 18 tasks focused on research, pre-16

paredness, and mitigation and annual funding of ap-17

proximately $300,000,000 per year for 20 years.’’. 18

(b) PURPOSE.—Section 3 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 19

7702) is amended— 20

(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), in 21

the first sentence, by inserting ‘‘and increase the re-22

silience of communities’’ after ‘‘future earthquakes’’; 23

(2) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘to individ-24

uals and the communities’’ after ‘‘an earthquake’’; 25


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(3) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘in time of 1

disaster’’ and inserting ‘‘to facilitate community- 2

wide post-earthquake recovery and in times of dis-3

aster’’; 4

(4) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘for predicting 5

damaging earthquakes and’’; 6

(5) in paragraph (4), by inserting ‘‘and plan-7

ning’’ after ‘‘model building’’; and 8

(6) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘reconstruc-9

tion’’ and inserting ‘‘re-occupancy, recovery, recon-10

struction,’’. 11

(c) DEFINITIONS.— 12

(1) LIFELINE INFRASTRUCTURE.— 13

(A) IN GENERAL.—Section 4(6) of such 14

Act (42 U.S.C. 7703(6)) is amended by striking 15

‘‘lifelines’’ and inserting ‘‘lifeline infrastruc-16

ture’’. 17

(B) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Such Act 18

(42 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.) is amended by striking 19

‘‘lifelines’’ each place it appears and inserting 20

‘‘lifeline infrastructure’’. 21

(2) COMMUNITY RESILIENCE.—Section 4 of 22

such Act (42 U.S.C. 7703) is amended by adding at 23

the end the following: 24


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‘‘(10) The term ‘community resilience’ means 1

the ability of a community to prepare and plan for, 2

absorb, recover from, and more successfully adapt to 3

adverse seismic events.’’. 4

SEC. 3. MODIFICATION OF NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE HAZ-5

ARDS REDUCTION PROGRAM. 6

(a) MODIFICATION OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES.—Sub-7

section (a)(2) of section 5 of the Earthquake Hazards Re-8

duction Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7704) is amended— 9

(1) in subparagraph (B)— 10

(A) in clause (iii), by inserting ‘‘, commu-11

nity resilience,’’ after ‘‘seismic risk’’; and 12

(B) by adding at the end the following: 13

‘‘(iv) publishing a systematic set of 14

maps of active faults and folds, lique-15

faction susceptibility, susceptibility for 16

earthquake induced landslides, and other 17

seismically induced hazards; and’’; and 18

(2) in subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘develop, 19

operate’’ and all that follows through ‘‘7708),’’ and 20

inserting ‘‘continue the development of the Advanced 21

National Seismic System, including earthquake early 22

warning capabilities’’. 23


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(b) AMENDMENTS RELATING TO INTERAGENCY CO-1

ORDINATING COMMITTEE ON EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS RE-2

DUCTION.— 3

(1) CLARIFICATION REGARDING MEMBER-4

SHIP.—Subparagraph (B) of subsection (a)(3) of 5

such section is amended, in the matter preceding 6

clause (i), by striking ‘‘The committee’’ and insert-7

ing ‘‘In addition to the Director, the committee’’. 8

(2) REDUCTION IN MINIMUM FREQUENCY OF 9

MEETINGS OF INTERAGENCY COORDINATING COM-10

MITTEE ON EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS REDUCTION.— 11

Subparagraph (C) of such subsection is amended by 12

striking ‘‘not less than 3 times a year’’ and inserting 13

‘‘not less frequently than once each year’’. 14

(3) EXPANSION OF DUTIES.—Subparagraph 15

(D) of such subsection is amended to read as fol-16

lows: 17

‘‘(D) DUTIES.— 18

‘‘(i) GENERAL DUTY.—The Inter-19

agency Coordinating Committee shall over-20

see the planning, management, and coordi-21

nation of the Program. 22

‘‘(ii) SPECIFIC DUTIES.—The duties 23

of the Interagency Coordinating Committee 24

include the following: 25


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‘‘(I) Developing, not later than 6 1

months after the date of the enact-2

ment of the National Earthquake 3

Hazards Reduction Program Reau-4

thorization Act of 2004 and updating 5

periodically— 6

‘‘(aa) a strategic plan that 7

establishes goals and priorities 8

for the Program activities de-9

scribed under subsection (a)(2); 10

and 11

‘‘(bb) a detailed manage-12

ment plan to implement such 13

strategic plan. 14

‘‘(II) Developing a coordinated 15

interagency budget for the Program 16

that will ensure appropriate balance 17

among the Program activities de-18

scribed under subsection (a)(2), and, 19

in accordance with the plans devel-20

oped under subclause (I), submitting 21

such budget to the Director of the Of-22

fice of Management and Budget at 23

the time designated by the Director 24


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for agencies to submit biennial budg-1

ets. 2

‘‘(III) Developing interagency 3

memorandums of understanding with 4

any relevant Federal agencies on data 5

sharing and resource commitment in 6

the event of an earthquake disaster. 7

‘‘(IV) Coordinating with the 8

Interagency Coordinating Committee 9

on Windstorm Impact Reduction and 10

other natural hazards coordination 11

committees as the Director determines 12

appropriate to share data and best 13

practices. 14

‘‘(V) Coordinating with the Ad-15

ministrator of the National Aero-16

nautics and Space Administration and 17

the Administrator of the National 18

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra-19

tion on data sharing and resource al-20

location to ensure judicious use of 21

Government resources and the free- 22

flowing exchange of information re-23

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‘‘(VI) Coordinating with the Sec-1

retary of Agriculture and the Sec-2

retary of the Interior on the use of 3

public lands for earthquake moni-4

toring and research stations, and re-5

lated data collection. 6

‘‘(VII) Coordinating with the 7

Secretary of Transportation and the 8

Secretary of Housing and Urban De-9

velopment on the effects of earth-10

quakes on transportation and housing 11

stocks. 12

‘‘(iii) ASSISTANCE FROM SECRETARY 13

OF AGRICULTURE AND SECRETARY OF THE 14

INTERIOR.—To the extent practicable, the 15

Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary 16

of the Interior shall expedite any request 17

for a permit to use public land under 18

clause (ii)(VI).’’. 19

(4) REDUCTION IN FREQUENCY OF REPORTING 20

BY INTERAGENCY COORDINATING COMMITTEE ON 21

EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS REDUCTION.— 22

(A) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (a)(4) of 23

such section is amended— 24


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(i) in the paragraph heading, by strik-1

ing ‘‘ANNUAL’’ and inserting ‘‘BIENNIAL’’; 2

(ii) by redesignating subparagraphs 3

(A) through (F) as clauses (i) through (vi), 4

respectively, and adjusting the indentation 5

of the margin of such clauses, as so redes-6

ignated, two ems to the right; 7

(iii) in clause (v), as so redesignated, 8

by striking ‘‘; and’’ and inserting a semi-9

colon; 10

(iv) in clause (vi), as so redesignated, 11

by striking the period at the end and in-12

serting ‘‘; and’’; 13

(v) by inserting after clause (vi), as so 14

redesignated, the following: 15

‘‘(vii) a statement regarding whether 16

the Administrator of the Federal Emer-17

gency Management Agency has lowered or 18

waived the cost share requirement for as-19

sistance provided under subsection 20

(b)(2)(A)(i).’’; 21

(vi) in the matter preceding clause (i), 22

as so redesignated, by striking ‘‘The Inter-23

agency’’ and all that follows through ‘‘Sen-24

ate’’ and inserting the following: 25


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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not less frequently 1

than once every two years, the Interagency Co-2

ordinating Committee shall submit to the Com-3

mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor-4

tation, the Committee on Energy and Natural 5

Resources, and the Committee on Homeland 6

Security and Governmental Affairs of the Sen-7

ate and the Committee on Science, Space, and 8

Technology, the Committee on Energy and 9

Commerce, the Committee on Natural Re-10

sources, and the Committee on Homeland Secu-11

rity of the House of Representatives a report on 12

the Program’’; and 13

(vii) by adding at the end the fol-14

lowing: 15

‘‘(B) SUPPORT FOR PREPARATION OF RE-16

PORT.—Each head of a Program agency shall 17

submit to the Director of the National Institute 18

of Standards and Technology such information 19

as the Director may request for the preparation 20

of a report under subparagraph (A) not later 21

than 90 days after the date on which the Direc-22

tor requests such information.’’. 23

(B) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments 24

made by subparagraph (A) shall take effect on 25


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the first day of the first fiscal year beginning 1

after the date of the enactment of this Act. 2

(c) MODIFICATION OF RESPONSIBILITIES OF NA-3

TIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY.— 4

Subsection (b) of such section is amended— 5

(1) in paragraph (1)— 6

(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘and 7

constructing,’’ and inserting ‘‘constructing, 8

evaluating, and retrofitting’’; and 9

(B) in subparagraph (D), by inserting 10

‘‘provide new and’’ after ‘‘research to’’; and 11

(2) in paragraph (5), in the matter preceding 12

subparagraph (A), in the first sentence, by inserting 13

‘‘community resilience through’’ after ‘‘improve’’. 14

(d) MODIFICATION OF RESPONSIBILITIES OF FED-15

ERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY.—Paragraph 16

(2) of subsection (b) of such section is amended to read 17

as follows: 18

‘‘(2) DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; 19

FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY.— 20

‘‘(A) PROGRAM RESPONSIBILITIES.—The 21

Administrator of the Federal Emergency Man-22

agement Agency— 23

‘‘(i) shall operate a program of grants 24

and assistance to enable States to develop 25


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mitigation, preparedness, and response 1

plans, purchase necessary instrumentation, 2

prepare inventories and conduct seismic 3

safety inspections of critical structures and 4

lifeline infrastructure, update building, 5

land use planning, and zoning codes and 6

ordinances to enhance seismic safety, in-7

crease earthquake awareness and edu-8

cation, and provide assistance to multi- 9

State groups for such purposes; 10

‘‘(ii) shall support the implementation 11

of a comprehensive earthquake education, 12

outreach, and public awareness program, 13

including development of materials and 14

their wide dissemination to all appropriate 15

audiences and support public access to lo-16

cality-specific information that may assist 17

the public in preparing for, mitigating 18

against, responding to and recovering from 19

earthquakes and related disasters; 20

‘‘(iii) shall, in conjunction with the 21

Director of the National Institute of 22

Standards and Technology, other Federal 23

agencies, and private sector groups, use re-24

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maintenance, and wide dissemination of 1

seismic resistant design guidance and re-2

lated information on building codes, stand-3

ards, and practices for new and existing 4

buildings, structures, and lifeline infra-5

structure, aid in the development of per-6

formance-based design guidelines and 7

methodologies, and support model codes 8

that are cost effective and affordable in 9

order to promote better practices within 10

the design and construction industry and 11

reduce losses from earthquakes; 12

‘‘(iv) shall enter into cooperative 13

agreements or contracts with States and 14

local jurisdictions and other Federal agen-15

cies to establish demonstration projects on 16

earthquake hazard mitigation, to link 17

earthquake research and mitigation efforts 18

with emergency management programs, or 19

to prepare educational materials for na-20

tional distribution; and 21

‘‘(v) shall support the Director of the 22

National Institute of Standards and Tech-23

nology in the completion of programmatic 24

goals. 25


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‘‘(B) STATE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM CRI-1

TERIA.—In order to qualify for assistance 2

under subparagraph (A)(i), a State must— 3

‘‘(i) demonstrate that the assistance 4

will result in enhanced seismic safety in 5

the State; 6

‘‘(ii) provide 25 percent of the costs of 7

the activities for which assistance is being 8

given, except that the Administrator may 9

lower or waive the cost-share requirement 10

for these activities for a small impover-11

ished community, as defined in section 203 12

of the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (42 13

U.S.C. 5133(a)); and 14

‘‘(iii) meet such other requirements as 15

the Administrator shall prescribe.’’. 16

(e) MODIFICATION OF RESPONSIBILITIES OF UNITED 17

STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.—Subsection (b)(3) of such 18

section is amended— 19

(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), 20

in the first sentence— 21

(A) by inserting ‘‘report on significant do-22

mestic and international earthquakes and’’ after 23

‘‘Survey shall’’; and 24


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(B) by striking ‘‘predictions.’’ and insert-1

ing ‘‘forecasts.’’; 2

(2) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘pre-3

dictions, including aftershock advisories’’ and insert-4

ing ‘‘alerts and early warnings’’; 5

(3) by striking subparagraph (D) and inserting 6

the following: 7

‘‘(D) issue when necessary and feasible, 8

and notify the Administrator of the Federal 9

Emergency Management Agency, the Director 10

of the National Institute of Standards and 11

Technology, and State and local officials, an 12

alert and an earthquake warning;’’; 13

(4) in subparagraph (E), in the matter pre-14

ceding clause (i), by striking ‘‘using’’ and inserting 15

‘‘including’’; 16

(5) in subparagraph (I), by striking ‘‘; and’’ 17

and inserting a semicolon; 18

(6) in subparagraph (J)— 19

(A) by inserting ‘‘and data’’ after ‘‘hazard 20

maps’’; and 21

(B) by striking the period at the end and 22

inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 23



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‘‘(K) support the Director of the National 1

Institute of Standards and Technology in the 2

completion of programmatic goals.’’. 3

(f) MODIFICATION OF RESPONSIBILITIES OF NA-4

TIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION.—Subsection (b)(4) of 5

such section is amended— 6

(1) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ‘‘, State 7

agencies, State geological surveys,’’ after ‘‘con-8

sortia’’; 9

(2) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ‘‘to sup-10

port applied science in the production of a system-11

atic series of earthquake-related geologic hazard 12

maps, and’’ after ‘‘Survey’’; 13

(3) in subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘large- 14

scale experimental and computational facilities of the 15

George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engi-16

neering Simulation and other institutions engaged in 17

research and the implementation of the National 18

Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program’’ and in-19

serting ‘‘experimental and computational facilities’’; 20

(4) in subparagraph (G), by striking ‘‘; and’’ 21

and inserting a semicolon; 22

(5) in subparagraph (H), by striking the period 23

at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; 24



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‘‘(I) support the Director of the National 1

Institute of Standards and Technology in the 2

completion of programmatic goals.’’; 3

(7) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) through 4

(I) as clauses (i) through (ix), respectively, and in-5

denting such clauses accordingly; 6

(8) in the matter before clause (i), as redesig-7

nated by paragraph (7), in the first sentence, by 8

striking ‘‘The National Science Foundation’’ and in-9

serting the following: 10

‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The National Science 11

Foundation’’; and 12


‘‘(B) IDENTIFICATION OF FUNDING.—The 14

National Science Foundation shall— 15

‘‘(i) to the extent practicable, note in 16

any notice of Program funding or other 17

funding possibilities under the Program 18

that the funds are part of the Program; 19

‘‘(ii) to the extent practicable, track 20

the awarding of Federal funds through the 21

Program; and 22

‘‘(iii) not less frequently than once 23

every 2 years, submit to the director of the 24

Program a report specifying the amount of 25


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Federal funds awarded to conduct research 1

that enhances the understanding of earth-2

quake science.’’. 3

SEC. 4. REVIEW OF THE NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE HAZARD 4

REDUCTION PROGRAM. 5

(a) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable, but not 6

later than such date as is necessary for the Comptroller 7

General of the United States to submit the report required 8

by subsection (c) in accordance with such subsection, the 9

Comptroller General shall complete a review of Federal 10

earthquake hazard risk reduction efforts. 11

(b) ELEMENTS.—The review conducted under sub-12

section (a) shall include the following: 13

(1) A comprehensive assessment of— 14

(A) the extent to which the United States 15

Geological Survey has identified the risks and 16

hazards to the United States posed by earth-17

quakes, including risks and hazards resulting 18

from tsunamis and landslides that are gen-19

erated by earthquakes; 20

(B) the efforts of the Federal Emergency 21

Management Agency and the National Institute 22

of Standards and Technology to improve the re-23

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to identify important gaps in the resilience of 1

the United States to earthquakes; 2

(C) the progress made by the National In-3

stitute of Standards and Technology and the 4

Interagency Coordinating Committee (as de-5

fined in section 4 the Earthquake Hazards Re-6

duction Act of 1977 of the Earthquake Hazards 7

Reduction Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7703)) to co-8

ordinate effectively the budget and activities of 9

the Program agencies (as defined in such sec-10

tion 4) in advancing the plans and goals of the 11

Program (as defined in such section 4) and how 12

coordination among the Program agencies may 13

be improved; 14

(D) the extent to which the results of re-15

search in earthquake risk and hazards reduc-16

tion supported by the National Science Founda-17

tion during the 40 years of the Program has 18

been effectively disseminated to Federal, State, 19

local, and private sector stakeholders; and 20

(E) the extent to which the research done 21

during the 40 years of the Program has been 22

applied to both public and private earthquake 23

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(2) Recommendations to improve the Program 1

and the resiliency of the United States to earth-2

quake risks. 3

(c) REPORT.—As soon as practicable, but not later 4

than 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, 5

the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committee 6

on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, the Com-7

mittee on Energy and Natural Resources, and the Com-8

mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 9

of the Senate and the Committee on Science, Space, and 10

Technology, the Committee on Natural Resources, and the 11

Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Rep-12

resentatives a report on the findings of the Comptroller 13

General with respect to the review completed under sub-14

section (a). 15

SEC. 5. SEISMIC STANDARDS. 16

Section 8 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act 17

of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7705b) is amended to read as follows: 18

‘‘SEC. 8. SEISMIC STANDARDS. 19

‘‘(a) ASSESSMENT AND RECOMMENDATIONS.—Not 20

later than December 1, 2019, the Director of the National 21

Institute of Standards and Technology and the Adminis-22

trator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 23

shall jointly convene a committee of experts from Federal 24

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entities, disaster management professional associations, 1

engineering professional associations, and professional 2

construction and homebuilding industry associations, to 3

assess and recommend options for improving the built en-4

vironment and critical infrastructure to reflect perform-5

ance goals stated in terms of post-earthquake reoccupancy 6

and functional recovery time. 7

‘‘(b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than June 8

30, 2020, the committee convened under paragraph (1) 9

shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 10

Transportation, the Committee on Energy and Natural 11

Resources, and the Committee on Homeland Security and 12

Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee 13

on Science, Space, and Technology, the Committee on 14

Natural Resources, and the Committee on Homeland Se-15

curity of the House of Representatives a report on rec-16

ommended options for improving the built environment 17

and critical infrastructure to reflect performance goals 18

stated in terms of post-earthquake reoccupancy and func-19

tional recovery time.’’. 20

SEC. 6. MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR ADVANCED NATIONAL 21

SEISMIC SYSTEM. 22

(a) PLAN REQUIRED.—Not later than 1 year after 23

the date of the enactment of this Act, the United States 24

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agement plan for the continued operation of the Advanced 1

National Seismic System. 2

(b) ELEMENTS.—The plan required by subsection (a) 3

shall include the following: 4

(1) Strategies to continue the development of 5

an earthquake early warning system. 6

(2) A mechanism for securing the participation 7

of State and regional level earthquake monitoring 8

entities, including those defunded by the Advanced 9

National Seismic System in the last five years. 10

(3) A plan to encourage and support the inte-11

gration of geodetic and geospatial data products into 12

earthquake monitoring in regions experiencing large 13

earthquakes. 14

(4) A plan to identify and evaluate existing 15

data sets available across commercial, civil, and de-16

fense entities to determine if there are additional 17

data sources to inform the development and deploy-18

ment of the Advanced National Seismic System and 19

an earthquake early warning system. 20

(5) A plan to ensure that there is an active, 21

geographically diverse, management and advisory 22

structure for the Advanced National Seismic Sys-23

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SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 1

Section 12 of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act 2

of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7706) is amended— 3

(1) in subsection (a)(8)— 4

(A) in subparagraph (D), by striking 5

‘‘and’’ at the end; and 6

(B) by inserting before the language fol-7

lowing subparagraph (E) the following: 8

‘‘(F) $8,758,000 for fiscal year 2019, 9

‘‘(G) $8,758,000 for fiscal year 2020, 10

‘‘(H) $8,758,000 for fiscal year 2021, 11

‘‘(I) $8,758,000 for fiscal year 2022, and 12

‘‘(J) $8,758,000 for fiscal year 2023,’’; 13

(2) in subsection (b)(2)— 14

(A) in subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘; 15

and’’ and inserting a semicolon; 16

(B) in subparagraph (E), by striking the 17

period at the end and inserting a semicolon; 18

and 19

(C) by adding at the end the following: 20

‘‘(F) $83,403,000 for fiscal year 2019, of 21

which not less than $30,000,000 shall be made 22

available for completion of the Advanced Na-23

tional Seismic System established under section 24

7707 of this title; 25


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‘‘(G) $83,403,000 for fiscal year 2020, of 1





‘‘(H) $83,403,000 for fiscal year 2021, of 6





‘‘(I) $83,403,000 for fiscal year 2022, of 11




7707 of this title; and 15

‘‘(J) $83,403,000 for fiscal year 2023, of 16




7707 of this title.’’; 20

(3) in subsection (c)(2)— 21


‘‘and’’ at the end; 23


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(B) in subparagraph (E), by striking the 1

period at the end and inserting a semicolon; 2

and 3

(C) by adding at the end the following: 4

‘‘(F) $54,000,000 for fiscal year 2019, 5

‘‘(G) $54,000,000 for fiscal year 2020, 6

‘‘(H) $54,000,000 for fiscal year 2021, 7


‘‘(J) $54,000,000 for fiscal year 2023.’’; 9

and 10

(4) in subsection (d)(2)— 11


‘‘and’’ at the end; and 13

(B) by inserting before the language fol-14

lowing subparagraph (E) the following: 15

‘‘(F) $5,900,000 for fiscal year 2019, 16

‘‘(G) $5,900,000 for fiscal year 2020, 17

‘‘(H) $5,900,000 for fiscal year 2021, 18


‘‘(J) $5,900,000 for fiscal year 2023.’’. 20

SEC. 8. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS. 21

(a) CORRECTION OF TITLE OF ADMINISTRATOR OF 22

THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY.— 23

The Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (42 24

U.S.C. 7701 et seq.) is amended— 25


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(1) in section 5 (42 U.S.C. 7704)— 1

(A) in subsection (a)(3)(B), as amended by 2

section 3(b)(1) of this Act— 3

(i) in the matter preceding clause (i), 4

by striking ‘‘the directors of’’; 5

(ii) in clause (i), by inserting ‘‘the Ad-6

ministrator of’’ before ‘‘the’’; and 7

(iii) in clauses (ii) through (v), by in-8

serting ‘‘the Director of’’ before ‘‘the’’ each 9

place it appears; and 10

(B) in subsection (b)(3)(C), as amended by 11

section 3(e), by striking ‘‘Director of the Fed-12

eral’’ and inserting ‘‘Administrator of the Fed-13

eral’’; and 14

(2) in section 9 (42 U.S.C. 7705c), by striking 15

‘‘Director of the Agency’’ and inserting ‘‘Adminis-16

trator of the Federal Emergency Management Agen-17

cy’’ each place it appears. 18

(b) REFERENCES TO THE ADVANCED NATIONAL 19

SEISMIC SYSTEM.—Such Act is amended— 20

(1) in section 13 (42 U.S.C. 7707), in the sec-21

tion heading, by striking ‘‘ADVANCED NATIONAL 22

SEISMIC RESEARCH AND MONITORING SYS-23

TEM’’ and inserting ‘‘ADVANCED NATIONAL SEIS-24

MIC SYSTEM’’; and 25


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(2) by striking ‘‘Advanced National Seismic Re-1

search and Monitoring System’’ each place it ap-2

pears and inserting ‘‘Advanced National Seismic 3

System’’. 4

(c) INCORRECT CROSS-REFERENCES.—Paragraph 5

(4) of section 5(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 7704(a)), as 6

amended by section 3(b)(4)(A) of this Act, is amended— 7

(1) in clauses (i) and (ii) of subparagraph (A), 8

as redesignated by such section 3(b)(4)(A), by strik-9

ing ‘‘subparagraph (3)(A)’’ both places it appears 10

and inserting ‘‘paragraph (3)(D)(i)(I)’’; and 11

(2) in clause (iii), as so redesignated, by strik-12

ing ‘‘under (3)(A)’’ and inserting ‘‘under paragraph 13

(3)(D)(i)(I)’’. 14

Passed the Senate September 27, 2018.

Attest: JULIE E. ADAMS,

Secretary.


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