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PUBLIC LAW 89-769-NOV. 6, 1966

[80 STAT.

PRIORITY TO CERTAIN APPLICATION S FOR P U B L I C F A C I L I T Y A N D H O U S I N G ASSISTANCE

42 USC U911497. ^2 us^c S. 69 Stat. 6 4 1. 40 USC 4 6 2. 79 Stat. 490. 42 USC 3102. Ante, p. 1318.

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SEC. 8. I n the processing of applications for assistance— (1) under title II of the Housing Amendments of 1955, or any other Act providing assistance for the repair, construction, or extension oi public facilities; (2) under the United States Housing Act of 1937 for the provision of low-rent housing; (3) under section 702 of the Housing Act of 1954 for assistance in public works planning; (4) under section 702 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 providing for grants for public facilities; or (5) under section 306 of the Consolidated Farmers Home Administration Act priority and immediate consideration shall be given, during such period as the President shall by proclamation prescribe, to applications from public bodies situated in major disaster areas. RESTORATION OF P U B L I C F A C I L I T I E S

SEC. 9. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to reimburse not more than 50 per centum of eligible costs incurred to repair, restore, or reconstruct any project of a State, county, municipal, or other local government agency for flood control, navigation, irrigation, reclamation, public powder, sewage treatment, M^ater treatment, watershed development, or airport construction which was damaged or destroyed as a result of a major disaster, and of the resulting additional eligible costs incurred to complete any such facility which was in the process of construction when damaged or destroyed as a result of such major disaster. Eligible costs are defined to mean those costs determined by the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning as incurred or to be incurred in (1) restoring a public facility to substantially the same condition as existed pirior to the damage resulting from the major disaster, and (2) completing construction not performed prior to the major disaster to the extent the increase of such costs over original construction costs is attributable to changed conditions resulting from the major disaster. Reimbursement under this section shall be made to the State, county, municipal, or other local governmental agency which is constructing the public facility or for which it is being constructed, except that if the economic burden of the eligible costs of repair, restoration, reconstruction or completion is incurred by an individual, partnership, corporation, agency, or other entity (other than an organization engaged in the business of insurance), the State, county, municipality, or other local governmental agency shall reimburse such individual, partnership, corporation, agency, or other entity not to exceed 50 per centum of those costs. Eligible costs shall not include any costs for which reimbursement is received pursuant to insurance contracts or otherwise by the party incurring the economic burden of such costs. D U P L I C A T I O N OF B E N E F I T S

SEC. 10. The head of each department or agency of the Federal government administering any program providing financial assistance to persons, business concerns, or other entities suffering losses as the result of a major disaster shall administer such program in a manner which will assure that no such person, concern, or other entity will receive such assistance with respect to any part of such loss as to which he has received financial assistance under any other such program.

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