Sec. 2. Findings

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Congress finds that— the Post-Katrina Emergency Management and Reform Act of 2006 ( Public Law 109–925 ; 120 Stat. 1394) required the Federal Emergency Management Agency to establish advance contracts, which are established prior to disasters and are typically needed to quickly provide life-sustaining goods and services in the immediate aftermath of a disaster; the catastrophic hurricanes and wildfires in the United States in 2017 highlighted the importance of these advance contracts in disaster response; in a report issued by the Government Accountability Office entitled 2017 Disaster Contracting:

Action Needed to Better Ensure More Effective Use and Management of Advance Contracts , the Government Accountability Office identified a number of challenges with advance contracts and recommended actions to improve management by the Federal Emergency Management Agency of these contracts for future disasters; and section 691 of the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 ( 6 U.S.C. 791 ) should be amended to incorporate the recommendations made by the report described in paragraph

(3)to ensure more effective use and management of advance contracts.

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