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“D.C., Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands should be treated like states when requesting IRS tax deadline delays after qualifying disasters.”
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“Leaders of affected tribal governments should be able to ask FEMA directly for a fire management assistance declaration, and FEMA should accept those requests instead of requiring tribes to rely only on a State governor.”
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“Treasury should divide disaster grant money among states using population, disaster history, geographic risk, and income, and states should be able to spend it on preparation, response, recovery, and reducing future damage.”
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“Washington, DC should count as a local government for FEMA disaster loan interest repayment.”
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“A state should need to submit a yearly emergency management plan by April 1 and get federal approval before receiving disaster grant money for the fiscal year that starts October 1.”
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“Federal officials should consult directly with tribal governments while writing FEMA rules for tribal fire aid requests, grants, and resources.”
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“Federal officials should have one year to update FEMA fire management assistance rules so tribal governments can use the new request and assistance process.”
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“The Small Business Administration should help people in covered rural disaster areas find, understand, and use existing SBA disaster assistance, including by sending focused information to those communities.”
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“After an SBA disaster declaration, SBA should have to help people in covered rural areas find out about and use existing SBA disaster assistance, without creating a new aid program or changing who qualifies.”
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“USDA should fund repairs to rural lands, forests, watersheds, facilities, and food-aid infrastructure after disasters, and should be able to use loans, grants, guarantees, agreements, and some waivers when ordinary rural aid limits do not fit.”
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“The Treasury Department should send federal disaster and emergency relief money to states, territories, and the District of Columbia through a block grant program.”
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“Each state should be able to spend up to 5 percent of its disaster grant on program management, paperwork, and other administrative costs.”
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“States should report each year on how disaster grant money was spent, what results it produced, response and preparedness measures, completed risk-reduction projects, and whether the state followed its approved plan.”
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“State emergency plans should explain how grant money will be used, show work with local governments and Tribal authorities, and include clear goals for preparedness and response.”
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“States and tribal governments should be able to ask FEMA for one payment for certain smaller declared disasters, then divide that money among eligible recovery needs and eligible local organizations affected by that disaster.”
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“The state disaster grant program should end four years after Treasury issues the rule that sets the funding formula, unless Congress renews or replaces it.”
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“Federal officials should consult tribal governments and consider conditions specific to tribal communities before finalizing updated fire management assistance rules that affect tribes.”
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