12 2 STA T .359 3 PUBLIC LA W 11 0– 329 — S E PT. 30 , 200 8to t heS t a teo fMis sissi p pi fo r a n interopera bl e c o m m u nications s y stem re q uire d in the aftermath of H urricane K atrina . S EC . 105 0 2 . T here is hereby appropriated to the Secretary of the D epartment of Homeland Security not to e x ceed $ 100 , 000,000, to remain a v ailable until September 3 0, 200 9 , for payments to the A merican R ed C ross for reimbursement of disaster relief and recovery expenditures and emer g ency services provided in the U nited States associated w ith hurricanes, floods, and other natural disasters occurring in 200 8 for which the P resident declared a ma j or disaster under title IV of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and E mergency Assistance Act of 19 74 , and only to the extent funds are not made available for those activities by other F ederal sources
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d, That these funds may be administered by any authori z ed federal government agency to meet the purposes of this provision and that total administrative costs shall not exceed 3 percent of the total appropriation: Provided fu r th er, That the Comptroller G eneral shall audit the use of these funds by the American Red Cross. SEC. 10503. Until such time as preliminary flood insurance rate maps initiated prior to O ctober 1, 2008 are completed and released for public review, preliminary base flood elevations are published in the Federal Register, and the second required local newspaper publication of such base flood elevations is made for the City of St. L ouis, St. Charles and St. Louis counties in Missouri, and Madison, Monroe, and St. Clair counties in Illinois, the Administration shall not begin the statutory appeals process in such areas required under section 13 6 3of the N ational Flood Insur - ance Act of 1968. CHAPTER 6 — INTERIOR AND ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUR E A U OF LA ND MANA G E M EN TWIL DLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT ( INCLUDING TRAN S FERS OF FUNDS ) For an additional amount for ‘ ‘ W ildland Fire Management ’ ’, $135,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which ( 1 ) $110,000,000 is for urgent wildland fire suppression activities, including repayments to other accounts from which funds were transferred in fiscal year 2008 for wildfire suppression so that all such transfers for fiscal year 2008 are fully repaid
and (2) $25,000,000 is for burned area rehabilitation. UNITED STATES FIS H AND WILDLIFE SER V ICE CONSTRUCTION For an additional amount for ‘‘Construction’’, $75,000,000, to remain available until expended, for necessary expenses related to the consequences of hurricanes and natural disasters. Mis s our i .Il li n ois. A u d i t s.
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