Order Code RL33226
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations
Legislation for Disaster Assistance:
Summary Data, FY1989 to FY2007
Updated March 8, 2007
Justin Murray
Information Research Specialist
Knowledge Services Group
Keith Bea
Specialist, American National Government
Government and Finance Division

Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Legislation
for Disaster Assistance: Summary Data,
FY1989 to FY2007
Summary
This report provides summary information on emergency supplemental
appropriations enacted after major disasters since 1989. During the 18-year span
from FY1989 through FY2006, Congress appropriated roughly $200 billion for
disaster assistance. Most of the appropriations were preceded by a presidential
request for supplemental funding. Some appropriations have been offset by
rescissions.
The most recent and costly disasters occurred in the summer of 2005 when
Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma made landfall in Gulf Coast states. To date,
Congress has appropriated over $110 billion in four supplementals, largely in
response to those hurricanes. Portions of the appropriations were offset by rescinding
over $34 billion in previously appropriated funds, explained in the section titled
“Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma.”
Prior to FY2005 and the hurricanes, only the terrorist attacks of 2001 led to
supplemental appropriations legislation that exceeded $20 billion. Congress
appropriated a total of more than $26 billion for disaster assistance in response to the
attacks. Other supplemental appropriations legislation enacted after catastrophic
disasters (or several significant disasters that occurred in short time intervals) range
from almost $366 million in FY2001 before the terrorist attacks (largely due to the
Nisqually earthquake in the summer of 2001) to over $12 billion for the Midwest
floods of 1993 and the Northridge earthquake of 1994. In the latter instances,
Congress appropriated funds to address the needs caused by more than one disaster.
At times, the supplementals enacted by Congress have included only disaster
funding. The supplementals enacted after Hurricane Hugo and the Loma Prieta
earthquake, in addition to the first two enacted after Hurricane Katrina, serve as
examples. On other occasions, however, disaster funding has been part of larger
pieces of legislation that appropriated funds for purposes other than disaster
assistance. In the latter category of statutes, disaster funding ranges from less than
1% (wildfires and Hurricane Isabel, FY2004) to almost 90% of the total
appropriations (Oklahoma City bombing of 2005).
President Bush submitted a request to Congress for FY2007 supplemental
funding along with the FY2008 budget request. The majority of the supplemental
funds requested would be used for the military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The request includes $3.4 billion for recovery costs associated with Hurricane
Katrina.
This report will be updated as events warrant to reflect any additional
supplemental disaster assistance appropriations in the 110th Congress.

Contents
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Selected CRS Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
List of Tables
Table 1. Presidential Requests and Appropriations, Emergency Appropriations
for Disaster Assistance, FY1989-FY2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Table 2. FY2005-FY2006 Supplemental Disaster Appropriations
After Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Table 3. Rescissions and Offsets, P.L. 109-148 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Emergency Supplemental Appropriations
Legislation for Disaster Assistance:
Summary Data, FY1989 to FY2007
Overview
From FY1989 through FY2006, Congress appropriated almost $200 billion for
disaster assistance in 30 appropriations measures, primarily supplemental
appropriations acts, after significant catastrophes occurred in the United States.1 The
median annual funding during the 18-year period FY1989 through FY2006 was $2.2
billion; the mean annual funding during that period was $11 billion ($199 billion/18).
The mean funding for all 30 enacted emergency supplemental bills was $6.6 billion
($199 billion/30).2
Disasters during 2001 and 2005 were especially costly. In FY2001 and FY2002,
supplemental appropriations for disaster assistance exceeded $26 billion, most of
which went toward recovery following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
In FY2005 and FY2006, after Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma struck the Gulf
Coast in the summer of 2005, supplemental appropriations for disaster assistance
reached an all-time high of $110.6 billion — roughly 55% of the total appropriated
for disaster assistance for the entire 18-year period FY1989 through FY2006.
The most recent action by Congress occurred on June 15, 2006, when the
President signed into law P.L. 109-234, legislation providing $94.5 billion in
emergency FY2006 supplemental spending for military operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan, foreign assistance in support of the war on terror and other international
crises, additional relief for victims of Gulf Coast hurricanes, and other matters. Of
the $94.5 billion, the legislation provided $19.3 billion in additional relief for victims
of Gulf Coast hurricanes and other disasters. Included in the $19.3 billion is $5.2
1 This amount does not include disaster assistance funding made available through regular
annual appropriations legislation (with one exception in FY2000 after Hurricane Floyd) or
funding enacted for agricultural disasters. For information on emergency agricultural
funding, see CRS Report RL31095, Emergency Funding for Agriculture: A Brief History
of Supplemental Appropriations, FY1989-FY2006
, by Ralph Chite.
2 Mean annual funding reflects the total funding for the period divided by 18, representing
each of the 18 fiscal years in FY1989-FY2006. The mean funding for the set of all of the
enacted bills reflects the total funding for the period divided by the total number of 30
enacted measures.

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billion for Community Development Block Grants. The measure also appropriated
$3.7 billion for levee repair and flood control projects.3
The most recent action taken by the Administration consists of a supplemental
FY2007 request submitted to Congress along with the FY2008 budget.4
This report provides summary information on emergency supplemental
appropriations legislation enacted since 1989 after significant catastrophes. The data
in this report include funds appropriated to the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF)
administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as well as
funds appropriated to other agencies.5 Emergency assistance funding includes
appropriations for disaster relief, repair of federal facilities, and hazard mitigation
activities directed at reducing the impact of future disasters. DRF appropriations are
obligated for all major disasters and emergencies issued under the Stafford Act,6 not
only those significant events that lead to supplemental appropriations.
Counterterrorism, law enforcement, and national security appropriations are not
included in this compilation.
3 For additional details on P.L. 109-234, The Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act
for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006, see CRS Report
RL33298, FY2006 Supplemental Appropriations: Iraq and Other International Activities;
Additional Hurricane Katrina Relief
, coordinated by Paul Irwin and Larry Nowels.
4 See U.S. President, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2008 Appendix
(Washington: 2007), [http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/pdf/
appendix/sup.pdf], visited Feb. 26, 2007.
5 Disaster relief funding allocated in P.L. 107-117 is not included in Table 1 because it was
an allocation of funding appropriated in P.L. 107-38. The majority of federal emergency
assistance funding listed in this report was provided through the Disaster Relief Fund. More
information on the emergency funding provided to the DRF appears in CRS Report
RL33053, Federal Stafford Act Disaster Assistance: Presidential Declarations, Eligible
Activities, and Funding
, by Keith Bea.
6 The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121 et
seq.

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As reflected in Table 1 below, supplemental appropriations have been enacted
as stand-alone legislation. However, in some instances, emergency disaster relief
funding has been enacted as part of regular appropriations measures, continuing
appropriations acts (continuing resolutions), or in omnibus appropriations legislation.
Requested funding levels noted in the third column of Table 1 reflect House
Appropriations Committee data on total requested funding for the entire enacted bill.
Where possible, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) data taken from
correspondence to Congress requesting emergency supplemental funding are used to
identify dates of Administration requests for supplemental funding.7
7 The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) website on Supplementals, Amendments,
and Releases [http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/amendments.htm] contains a list of
the presidential submission transmittals and estimates from calendar year 2003 to the
present. Calendar year OMB 2004 submissions and estimates are available at
[http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/04amendments.htm]; calendar year OMB 2003
submissions and estimates are available at [http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/
03amendments.htm]. All three websites visited Feb. 26, 2007.

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Table 1. Presidential Requests and Appropriations, Emergency
Appropriations for Disaster Assistance, FY1989-FY2006
(dollars in thousands)
Emergency
Assistance
Total
Emergency
Administration
Date Signed into
Funding and
Disaster Event and Date of
Appropriation in
Assistance
Fiscal Year
Request, by Date
Law and
Percentage of
Major Disaster Declaration A
Current Year
Funding in
and Amount B
P.L. Number
Appropriation
Dollars
FY2007 Dollars
Current Year
Dollars
2007
Hurricane Katrina
Feb. 5, 2007




Aug. 29, 2005
$3,400,000
2006
Hurricanes Katrina, Rita,
Feb. 16, 2006
June 15, 2006
$94,520,000
$19,340,000
$19,764,722
Wilma; Aug. - Sept. 2005
$19,800,000
P.L. 109-234
20.4%
2006
Hurricanes Katrina, Rita,
Oct. 28, 2005
Dec. 30, 2005
$453,500,000
$29,046,985
$29,684,880
Wilma; Aug. - Sept. 2005
$17,100,000 C
P.L. 109-148
6.4%
2005
Hurricane Katrina
Sept. 7, 2005
Sept. 8, 2005
$51,800,000
$51,800,000
$54,800,000
Aug. 29, 2005
$51,800,000
P.L. 109-62
100%
2005
Hurricane Katrina
Sept. 1, 2005
Sept. 2, 2005
$10,500,000
$10,500,000
$11,000,983
Aug. 29, 2005
$10,500,000
P.L. 109-61
100%
2005
Hurricanes Ivan, Jeanne
Sept. 14, 2004
Oct. 13, 2004
$14,500,000
$11,103,887
$11,633,636
Sept. 1, 2004
$3,100,000
P.L. 108-324
76.6%

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Emergency
Assistance
Total
Emergency
Administration
Date Signed into
Funding and
Disaster Event and Date of
Appropriation in
Assistance
Fiscal Year
Request, by Date
Law and
Percentage of
Major Disaster Declaration A
Current Year
Funding in
and Amount B
P.L. Number
Appropriation
Dollars
FY2007 Dollars
Current Year
Dollars
2004
Hurricanes Charley, Frances
Sept. 6, 2004
Sept. 8, 2004
$2,000,000
$2,000,000
$2,153,126
Sept. 1, 2004
$2,000,000
P.L. 108-303
100%
2004
Wildfires
D
Aug. 8, 2004
$417,500,000
$500,000
$538,281
various dates
P.L. 108-287
0.12%
2004
Hurricane Isabel
$87,000,000
Nov. 6, 2003
$87,500,000
$813,000
$875,246
Sept. 18, 2003
Sept. 17, 2003 E
P.L. 108-106
0.93%
2003
Storms
July 7, 2003
Sept. 30, 2003
$3,500,000
$820,700
$904,714
various 2003 dates
(continued from
P.L. 108-83
23.4%
$1,900,000 request
below)
2003
Tornadoes
July 7, 2003
Aug. 8, 2003
$983,600
$983,600
$1,084,290
May 6, 2003
$1,900,000
P.L. 108-69
100%
2002
Terrorist attacks
Mar. 21, 2002
Aug. 2, 2002
$26,600,000
$6,167,600
$6,933,229
Sept. 11, 2001
$27,100,000
P.L. 107-206
23.2%
2001
Terrorist attacks
Sept. 12, 2001
Sept. 18, 2001
$40,000,000 F
$20,000,000
$22,913,247
Sept. 11, 2001
$20,000,000
P.L. 107-38
50%
G
2001
Nisqually Earthquake
July 24, 2001
$8,980,000
$365,700
$418,969
P.L. 107-20
4.9%

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Emergency
Assistance
Total
Emergency
Administration
Date Signed into
Funding and
Disaster Event and Date of
Appropriation in
Assistance
Fiscal Year
Request, by Date
Law and
Percentage of
Major Disaster Declaration A
Current Year
Funding in
and Amount B
P.L. Number
Appropriation
Dollars
FY2007 Dollars
Current Year
Dollars
2000
Hurricane Floyd
Sept. 21, 1999
Oct. 20, 1999
$99,500,000
$2,480,425
$2,908,794
Sept. 16, 1999
$97,500 H
P.L. 106-74
2.5%
I
1999
Tornadoes
May 21, 1999
$13,100,000
$1,296,723
$1,551,384
various dates
P.L. 106-31
9.9%
1999
Hurricanes Georges, Bonnie
$7,780,000 J
Oct. 21, 1998
$21,000,000
$1,830,977
$2,190,560
flooding
P.L. 105-277
8.7%
various dates
1998
El Niño floods
Mar. 24, 1998
May 1, 1998
$6,006,000
$2,602,173
$3,154,076
Feb. 9, 1998
$22,560,000
P.L. 105-174
43.3%
1997
Dakotas flooding
Mar. 19, 1997
June 12, 1997
$9,163,000
$5,863,883
$7,193,823
Apr. 7, 1997
$3,480,000
P.L. 105-18
64%
K
1995
Oklahoma City bombing
July 27, 1995
$7,453,000
$6,599,531
$8,395,823
Apr. 25, 1995
P.L. 104-19
88.6%
1995
Northridge Earthquake,
$90,100,000 L
Sept. 28, 1994
$90,100,000
$417,500 M
$531,137
Tropical Storm Alberto
P.L. 103-327
0.46%
various dates

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Emergency
Assistance
Total
Emergency
Administration
Date Signed into
Funding and
Disaster Event and Date of
Appropriation in
Assistance
Fiscal Year
Request, by Date
Law and
Percentage of
Major Disaster Declaration A
Current Year
Funding in
and Amount B
P.L. Number
Appropriation
Dollars
FY2007 Dollars
Current Year
Dollars
1994
Midwest floods, CA fires, and
Sept. 28, 1994
Feb. 12, 1994
$11,535,000
$8,837,952
$11,480,135
Northridge earthquake
$11,430,000
P.L. 103-211
76.6%
Jan. 17, 1994
1993
Midwest floods
July 14, 1993
Aug. 12, 1993
$4,411,000
$3,494,750
$4,637,128
June 11, 1993
$3,980,000
P.L. 103-75
79.2%
N
1993
Hurricanes Andrew, Iniki
July 2, 1993
$3,500,000
$52,345
$69,456
various dates
P.L. 103-50
1.5%
1992
Hurricanes Andrew, Iniki
Sept. 8, 1992
Sept. 23, 1992
$12,775,00
$5,767,116
$7,825,847
Aug. 24, 1992
$6,530,000
P.L. 102-368
45.1%
O
1992
L.A. riots/Chicago flood
June 22, 1992
$1,191,000
$ 469,650
$637,305
various dates
P.L. 102-302
39.4%
1992
Hurricane Bob
June 28, 1991
Dec. 12, 1991
$6,849,000
$943,000
$1,279,630
various dates
$693,000
P.L.102-229
13.8%
P
1990
Hurricane Hugo/Exxon Valdez
May 25, 1990
$4,300,000
$670,412
$967,621
various dates
P.L. 101-302
15.6%
Q
1990
Hurricane Hugo
Oct. 26, 1989
$ 2,850,000
$2,850,000
$4,113,471
Loma Prieta Earthquake
P.L. 101-130
100%
Oct. 18, 1989

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Emergency
Assistance
Total
Emergency
Administration
Date Signed into
Funding and
Disaster Event and Date of
Appropriation in
Assistance
Fiscal Year
Request, by Date
Law and
Percentage of
Major Disaster Declaration A
Current Year
Funding in
and Amount B
P.L. Number
Appropriation
Dollars
FY2007 Dollars
Current Year
Dollars
R
1989
Hurricane Hugo
Sept. 29, 1989
$1,108,000
$1,108,000
$1,658,606
Sept. 20, 1989
P.L. 101-100
100%
1989
Fires on federal lands
June 30, 1989
$3,564,000
$348,969
$522,384
S
various dates
P.L. 101-45
9.8%
Sources: Supplemental funding totals based on compiled CRS data on Emergency Appropriations After Disasters, FY1989-FY2005. Other supplemental funding totals obtained from Congressional
Budget Office (CBO) Supplemental Appropriations series, including “CBO Data on Supplemental Budget Authority for the 2000s” at [http://cbo.gov/ftpdocs/66xx/doc6630/SuppApprop.pdf], visited
Feb. 27, 2007.
Totals for Administration requests were obtained from OMB correspondence to Congress and from the House Appropriations Committee Budget Estimates volumes, Table VIIIa. Editions for recent
Congresses (through the 107th) are on the Government Printing Office GPO Access Congressional Documents site at [http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/cdocuments/budgets.html], visited Feb. 27, 2007.
FY2007 dollar conversions were calculated using GDP Chained Price Index data in Table 10.1, FY2007 budget Historical Tables volume.
A. Data in this column represent the date the President issued a major disaster declaration for the disaster that appeared to be the primary catalyst for the supplemental appropriations legislation. In a
series of disasters (such as the Midwest floods of 1993), this date represents the first of several declarations associated with that particular disaster. In some instances, identifying which disasters
were primarily associated with consideration of the supplemental appropriations was not possible.
B. Data in this column represent the date the President submitted a request to Congress for supplemental funds. In some instances, funding was not requested by the White House but was included by
Congress in regular appropriations measures.
C. On October 28, 2005, the President submitted to Congress a request to “reallocate” $17.1 billion previously appropriated for FEMA. See [http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/
amendments/rescission_package_10_28_05.pdf], visited Feb. 27, 2007. Congress modified this request by redirecting roughly $12 billion to the request in provisions in P.L.109-148, the FY2006
Department of Defense Appropriations Act. Because Congress appropriated the rescinded funds, the funding is considered supplemental appropriations for the purpose of this report, even though
some might contend that this does not represent an additional cost to the Treasury. The President also submitted that same day a budget amendment that sought the rescission of “$2.3 billion from
lower-priority federal programs and excess funds.” See Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, “Estimate No.14,” at
[http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/amendments/rescission_package_10_28_05.pdf], visited Feb. 27, 2007.

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D. FY2004 supplemental funds to meet wildfire suppression requirements were included in the FY2005 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, P.L. 108-287. For more information on the statute,
see CRS Report RL32783, FY2005 Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq and Afghanistan, Tsunami Relief, and Other Activities, by Amy Belasco and Larry Nowels.
E. The President submitted a supplemental request of $87 billion for ongoing military operations and for reconstruction assistance in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. During conference on H.R. 3289
(P.L. 108-106, the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan Act, 2004), $500 million for FEMA for disaster relief for Hurricane
Isabel and the California wildfires was added to the legislation, bringing the total enacted funding for P.L. 108-106 to $87.5 billion.
F. P.L. 107-117 allocated funds appropriated in P.L. 107-38, which was enacted shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Under P.L. 107-38, $20 billion was available immediately, whereas
the remaining $20 billion became available when allocated in P.L. 107-117, enacted on January 10, 2002. Of the second half of the $40 billion, $11.579 billion was provided for emergency disaster
assistance.
G. An OMB supplemental request for the Nisqually earthquake could not be identified.
H. The appropriations associated with Hurricane Floyd were not supplemental appropriations but were incorporated into the regular FY2000 appropriations legislation, P.L. 106-74, Department of Veterans
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000. These data are included because Congress increased FY2000 DRF funding primarily in response
to Hurricane Floyd.
I. The initial Administration request of $687 million was submitted on February 16, 1999 (see discussion in H.Rept. 106-064, p. 7) for relief funding for Hurricanes Georges and Bonnie. However,
additional emergency disaster funding was later sought to address tornado damage and other natural disasters during 1999.
J. Emergency relief funding for flooding caused by Hurricanes Georges and Bonnie was included in P.L. 105-277, the FY2000 Consolidated Appropriations Act.
K. P.L. 103-211 provided $11.53 billion in DRF appropriations largely in response to the Northridge earthquake in California. See White House press release from FEMA Director James Lee Witt, Jan.
12, 1995, at [http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/archives/whitehouse-papers/1995/Jan/1995-01-12-fema-director-witt-on-california-flood-relief.text], visited, Feb. 27, 2007. Administration supplemental
request correspondence to Congress for subsequent funding for Northridge and Oklahoma City could not be identified.
L. An OMB supplemental request or requested Administration funding level for Tropical Storm Alberto could not be identified. Tropical Storm Alberto disaster funding was included in P.L. 103-327,
the FY1995 Department of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act.
M. The CBO scored supplemental funding as $357.0 million.
N. An OMB supplemental request for Hurricanes Andrew and Iniki could not be identified.
O. An OMB supplemental request for the Los Angeles riots and Chicago flood could not be identified.
P. An OMB supplemental request for Hurricane Hugo and the Exxon Valdez incident could not be identified.
Q. No OMB request for this funding could be identified. Disaster funding in P.L. 101-130 was enacted as a continuing resolution, which amended the previous continuing resolution enacted as P.L. 101-
100 to extend its provision until November 15, 1989.
R. No request could be identified.
S. An OMB supplemental request for the 1989 fires on federal lands or the requested Administration funding level could not be identified.

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Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma
In response to the widespread destruction caused by three catastrophic
hurricanes at the end of the 2005 summer, the 109th Congress enacted four emergency
supplemental appropriations bills.
Two of the statutes were enacted as FY2005 supplementals after Hurricane
Katrina devastated parts of Florida and Alabama and resulted in presidential major
disaster declarations for all jurisdictions in Louisiana and Mississippi. The two
supplementals (P.L. 109-61 and P.L. 109-62) together provided $62.3 billion for
emergency response and recovery needs; most of the funding in these two bills was
provided for the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) administered by FEMA.
After Hurricanes Rita and Wilma struck, Congress enacted two other
supplementals; the costs of both were offset by rescissions. The FY2006
appropriations legislation for the Department of Defense (P.L. 109-148) rescinded
roughly $34 billion in funds previously appropriated (almost 70% of which was taken
from funds previously appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security) and
appropriated $29 billion to other accounts primarily to pay for the restoration of
federal facilities damaged by the hurricanes.8 Also in FY2006, Congress agreed to
an Administration request for further funding; $19.3 billion was appropriated in
supplemental legislation (P.L. 109-234) for recovery assistance, with roughly $64
million rescinded from two accounts ($15 million from flood control, Corps of
Engineers, and $49.5 million from Navy Reserve construction, Department of
Defense).
As a result, the total amount appropriated by Congress in supplemental funding
after the 2005 hurricanes passed the $110 billion mark. Table 2 provides
information on the appropriations made in the four supplementals enacted after
Hurricane Katrina. Table 3 identifies the departments and agencies from which
funds were rescinded in P.L. 109-148.
In addition to these rescissions and appropriations, Congress enacted other
funding changes by transferring $712 million from FEMA to the Small Business
Administration for disaster loans (P.L. 109-174).
8 In requests to Congress, President Bush termed the sequence of events as a “reallocation”
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Table 2. FY2005-FY2006 Supplemental Disaster Appropriations After Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma
(millions of dollars)
FY2005
FY2006
Department
P.L. 109-61
P.L. 109-62
P.L. 109-148
P.L. 109-234
Agriculture

$1,183
A $152
Commerce
$55
$150
Defense-Military
$500
$1,400
$5,754
B $1,488
Defense-Civil/Corps of Engineers
$400
$2,900
C $3,686
Education and related agencies
$1,600
$285
Health and Human Services
$640
$12
Homeland Security
$10,000
$50,000
$285
$6,662
Housing and Urban Development
$11,890
$5,200
Interior
$70
$256
Justice
$229
$9
Labor
$125
$16
Transportation
$2,798
D $702
Veterans Affairs
$658
$586
Agencies
Armed Forces Retirement Home
$176
Corporation for National and Community Service
$10
Environmental Protection Agency
$8
$13
General Services Administration
$38
$37
Historically Black Colleges Capital Financing
$15
National Aeronautics and Space Admin.
$350
$35
The Judiciary
$18
Small Business Admin.
$446
$542
Total
$10,500
$51,800
$29,047
$19,300
Grand total
$110,647
Source: CRS calculations from amounts presented in P.L. 109-61, P.L. 109-62, P.L. 109-148, and P.L. 109-234.
A. Does not include authority for $500 in direct assistance to be drawn from the Commodity Credit Corporation, authorized in Title III of P.L. 109-234.
B. Includes rescissions and military construction accounts.
C. Includes rescissions.
D. Department of Transportation funds derived from Highway Trust Fund rescission.

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Table 3. Rescissions and Offsets, P.L. 109-148
(thousands of dollars)
Department or agency
Amount rescinded or offset
Department of Agriculture
$66,100
Department of Defense
$80,000
Export-Import Bank
$25,000
Department of Homeland Security
$23,669,833
Department of the Interior
$3,500
Department of Commerce
$7,000
Department of State
$30,000
Department of Transportation
$1,143,000
Government-wide A
$9,045,998
Total
$34,070,431
Source: CRS calculation of rescissions and offsets presented in Division B, Title III, conference
report to accompany H.R. 2863, H.Rept. 109-359.
A. Data for the 1% rescission obtained from Letter from Joshua Bolten, Director, Office of
Management and Budget, to Senator Thad Cochran, Chairman, Senate Appropriations
Committee, Feb. 8, 2006, at [http://www.cq.com/flatfiles/editorialFiles/budgetTracker/
reference/docs/20060213omboneperc.pdf], visited Feb. 27, 2007.

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Selected CRS Reports
CRS Report RL33330. Community Development Block Grant Funds in Disaster
Relief and Recovery, by Eugene Boyd.
CRS Report RL31999. Disaster Relief and Response: FY2003 Supplemental
Appropriations, by Keith Bea.
CRS Report RL33053. Federal Stafford Act Disaster Assistance: Presidential
Declarations, Eligible Activities, and Funding, by Keith Bea.
CRS Report RL33298. FY2006 Supplemental Appropriations: Iraq and Other
International Activities; Additional Hurricane Katrina Relief, coordinated by
Paul Irwin and Larry Nowels.
CRS Report RL32783. FY2005 Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq and
Afghanistan, Tsunami Relief, and Other Activities, by Amy Belasco and Larry
Nowels.
CRS Report RL32581. Supplemental Appropriations for the 2004 Hurricanes and
Other Disasters, by Keith Bea and Ralph M. Chite.