Offshore Infrastructure Emergency Relief Act of 2005

Offshore Infrastructure Emergency Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to encompass the Outer Continental Shelf within the definition of "United States," thus authorizing its inclusion in presidentially declared disaster areas.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3344 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3344

     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act to allow the area of a Presidentially declared disaster 
                to include the outer Continental Shelf.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2005

  Mr. Jindal introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act to allow the area of a Presidentially declared disaster 
                to include the outer Continental Shelf.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Offshore Infrastructure Emergency 
Relief Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. PRESIDENTIALLY DECLARED DISASTER AREA MAY INCLUDE THE OUTER 
              CONTINENTAL SHELF.

    (a) In General.--Section 102(3) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122(3)) is amended by 
inserting ``, and includes the outer Continental Shelf (as defined in 
section 2(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1331(a))'' after ``Islands''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
to--
            (1) declarations made after the date of the enactment of 
        this Act, or
            (2) modifications made after such date with respect to 
        declarations made after December 31, 2003.
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