To provide for the distribution of excess manufactured housing units located at Hope Municipal Airport, Arkansas, and for other purposes.

Directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish and carry out a program to designate and distribute excess manufactured housing units located at Hope Municipal Airport, Arkansas, to eligible government entities to provide affordable rental housing.

Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to to revise procedures for the disposal of temporary housing units purchased by the President for housing disaster victims to require, as an alternative method of disposal, the transfer of such units to the General Services Administration (GSA) for disposal as excess property.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6128 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6128

 To provide for the distribution of excess manufactured housing units 
  located at Hope Municipal Airport, Arkansas, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 20, 2006

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the distribution of excess manufactured housing units 
  located at Hope Municipal Airport, Arkansas, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. DISTRIBUTION OF EXCESS MANUFACTURED HOUSING UNITS LOCATED AT 
              HOPE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, ARKANSAS.

    (a) Program Authorized.--Subject to the requirements of this 
section, the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall 
establish and carry out a program to designate and distribute to 
eligible government entities, without payment of consideration, excess 
manufactured housing units located at Hope Municipal Airport, Arkansas.
    (b) Use of Manufactured Housing Units.--An eligible government 
entity receiving excess manufactured housing units under the program 
shall use such housing units to provide affordable rental housing.
    (c) Deadline for Establishment.--The Director shall establish the 
program not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act.
    (d) Designation of Excess Manufactured Housing Units.--Not later 
than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director 
shall--
            (1) determine the number, not to exceed 3,000, of 
        manufactured housing units located at Hope Municipal Airport, 
        Arkansas, as of the date of enactment of this Act, that the 
        Director needs to retain at such airport for emergency 
        preparedness and response purposes; and
            (2) designate any manufactured housing units located at 
        such airport, as of the date of enactment of this Act, in 
        excess of the number determined by the Director under paragraph 
        (1) as excess manufactured housing units for distribution under 
        the program.
    (e) Eligible Government Entities.--For purposes of this section, an 
eligible government entity is a unit of local government, including a 
city, county, or parish, that is located in an area affected by a major 
disaster declared by the President--
            (1) at any time during the 24-month period ending on the 
        date of enactment of this Act; or
            (2) at any time after the date of enactment of this Act.
    (f) Site Requirement.--In order to receive manufactured housing 
units under the program, an eligible government entity shall provide 
suitable sites, connected to water and sewer lines, to which the 
manufactured housing units may be relocated.
    (g) Application.--An eligible government entity seeking to receive 
manufactured housing units under the program shall submit an 
application to the Director at such time, in such manner, and 
containing such information as the Director may require.
    (h) Determination.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
receipt of an application under subsection (g), the Director shall 
approve or deny the application.
    (i) Priority.--In making determinations under subsection (h), the 
Director shall give priority to eligible government entities 
representing areas with a high rate of poverty.
    (j) Relocation of Manufactured Housing Units.--The Director shall 
relocate the manufactured housing units to the sites provided by the 
recipients of manufactured housing units under the program at full 
Federal expense.
    (k) Maximum Number of Units for Distribution.--An eligible 
government entity may receive 6 manufactured housing units under the 
program for every acre of land provided as sites to which such housing 
units may be relocated, but in no case may a government entity receive 
more than 100 housing units under the program.
    (l) Major Disaster Defined.--In this section, the term ``major 
disaster'' has the meaning given that term in section 102 of the Robert 
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
5122).

SEC. 2. DISPOSAL OF TEMPORARY HOUSING UNITS.

    Section 408(d)(2)(B) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5174(d)(2)(B)) is amended to read 
as follows:
                    ``(B) Other methods of disposal.--If not disposed 
                of under subparagraph (A), a temporary housing unit 
                purchased under this section by the President for the 
                purpose of housing disaster victims shall be 
                transferred to the Administrator of General Services 
                for disposal as excess property.''.
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