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FEMA Disaster Code: Year Declared: Disaster Type: Notes FL Hurricane Milton: EM-3622-FL 2024 Hurricane [4] FL HURRICANE MILTON EM-3623-FL 2024 Hurricane GU TROPICAL STORM BOLAVEN EM-3601-GU 2024 Tropical Storm MP TROPICAL STORM BOLAVEN EM-3602-MP 2024 Tropical Storm VI ELEVATED LEVELS OF LEAD AND COPPER IN THE WATER SUPPLY EM-3603-VI 2024 Other CT
The 1976 National Emergencies Act implemented various legal requirements regarding emergencies declared by the President of the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of January 2025, 85 emergencies have been declared; [ 3 ] 41 have expired and another 44 are currently in effect, each having been renewed annually by the president.
The Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-288) was passed into law by the then President Richard Nixon as a United States federal law that established the process of presidential disaster declarations. [1] The bill was introduced by Senator Quentin Burdick on February 26, 1974. [2]
Federal disaster relief and recovery was brought under the umbrella of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in 1973 by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973, [11] and the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration was created as an organizational unit within the department. This agency would oversee disasters until ...
The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, commonly known as the Stafford Act, [1] is a 1988 United States federal law designed to bring an orderly and systematic means of federal natural disaster assistance for state and local governments in carrying out their responsibilities to aid citizens. Congress's intention was ...
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In order to activate the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), "a public health emergency may include but is not limited to, public health emergencies declared by the Secretary of HHS [Health and Human Services] under 42 U.S.C. 247d, or a declaration of a major disaster or emergency under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency ...
The National Emergencies Act (NEA) (Pub. L. 94–412, 90 Stat. 1255, enacted September 14, 1976, codified at 50 U.S.C. § 1601–1651) is a United States federal law passed to end all previous national emergencies and to formalize the emergency powers of the President.