Strategic Acquisition and Floodplain Efficiency Reform Act or the SAFER Act This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development to establish a pilot program to evaluate the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of allowing private entities to carry out pre-disaster mitigation activities, such as property acquisition and relocation, under the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery program.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Housing and Community Development
Congressional oversightEmergency planning and evacuationEnvironmental healthFloods and storm protectionGovernment studies and investigationsHousing and community development fundingLand transfersNatural disastersPublic-private cooperation
SAFER Act
USA117th CongressS-1879| Senate
| Updated: 5/27/2021
Strategic Acquisition and Floodplain Efficiency Reform Act or the SAFER Act This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development to establish a pilot program to evaluate the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of allowing private entities to carry out pre-disaster mitigation activities, such as property acquisition and relocation, under the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery program.
Congressional oversightEmergency planning and evacuationEnvironmental healthFloods and storm protectionGovernment studies and investigationsHousing and community development fundingLand transfersNatural disastersPublic-private cooperation