Clean Up DEBRIS Act

This bill changes the federal disaster relief law (the Stafford Act) to address debris removal in privately owned shared-housing communities after a major disaster. It adds definitions for residential common interest communities (such as homeowners associations), condominiums, housing cooperatives, and manufactured home parks. It directs the President to issue rules saying that removing disaster debris from these communities is in the public interest when a state or local government determines in writing that the debris threatens life, public health or safety, or the community's economic recovery. In writing these rules, the President must defer to definitions in state or local laws. The changes would apply only to disasters or emergencies declared on or after the bill becomes law.

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Sponsors

• W. Gregory Steube Republican sponsor
• 1 cosponsors