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S. Rept. 107-121: Emergency Transportation Funding for Disaster Relief, Report to Accompany S. 1637, December 10, 2001
S. RPT. 107-121: Title 23, Section 125 of the U.S. Code authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to administer emergency highway relief funds. The Secretary administers emergency funds for the repair or reconstruction of highways on Federal-aid highways and related facilities damaged by a natural disaster or an externally-caused catastrophic failure. Title 23 currently limits emergency relief expenditures from a "single catastrophic failure in a State" to $100 million, and further limits total emergency relief obligations to $100 million per State per fiscal year. The World Trade Center collapse severely damaged many city and State roads in lower Manhattan. Excess weight trucks removing debris from the site have damaged regional highways. Additionally, for security purposes New York City closed the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel for a time. During the closure, substitute ferry service, eligible for Title 23 emergency funding, ran between Brooklyn and Manhattan. The combined eligible highway and ferry expenses attributable to the September 11th terrorist attack on New York City may exceed $100 million. Section 1 allows for 100 percent Federal share for Title 23 projects undertaken in New York City in response to the World Trade Center attacks and allows the Secretary of Transportation to exceed the emergency funding caps per fiscal year and per State in helping to rebuild New York City.
United States. Government Printing Office
2002
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LLIS Lesson Learned: Donations Management: Creative Management of Donations Received After and Emergency
From the Summary: "A major emergency requires donation managers to be creative in managing and distributing donations so as not to let the items go to waste. Transportation and storage of the goods can also present a difficult task." From the Description: "After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, New York City received a vast quantities of donated goods, including eight semi-truck loads containing stuffed animals, tons of bottled water, and a massive amount of dog food. Because these donated goods were not needed for immediate response and recovery efforts, donation managers needed to distribute the items to those agencies that could use them. All donations were first offered to New York City and New York Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (VOAD) agencies; donations were then offered to all non-profit agencies in the affected area. Finally, any remaining donations were offered to those organizations that could benefit. […] Donation managers must be creative in distributing the donations they receive after a major emergency incident. Storing and transporting donations can be very costly; therefore, donations managers must evaluate whether items can be used to benefit the immediate disaster victims and area. Donations may sometimes be distributed to the greater community to ensure that items do not go to waste."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
2004-09-25?
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Diversity Immigrant Visa Program [November 09, 2017]
"On October 31, 2017, a resident of Patterson, NJ, reportedly drove a truck onto a bicycle path in New York City, killing 8 and injuring 11. Authorities have described the incident as a terrorist attack, and the suspect has been identified as an immigrant from Uzbekistan. Given that the suspect reportedly entered the country on an immigrant visa obtained through the Diversity Visa program (DV program), this incident has renewed interest in the DV program and its associated 'lottery.' The DV program was established to increase U.S. immigrant diversity by admitting individuals from countries from which relatively few immigrants arrive. The Diversity Immigrant category was added to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by the Immigration Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-649)."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Wilson, Jill, 1974-
2017-11-09
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