[20220110]IF10720_救灾允许调整的计算和使用.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated January 10, 2022Calculation and Use of the Disaster Relief Allowable AdjustmentThe Budget Control Act (P.L. 112-25, hereinafter the BCA) established limits on federal spending, as well as ways to adjust those limits to accommodate certain priority spending. One of these mechanismsa limited “allowable adjustment” to discretionary spending limits to pay for the congressionally designated costs of major disasters under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Actrepresented a new approach to paying for disaster relief. In the past, while some funding for disaster costs had been included in annual appropriations measures as part of the regular funding process, many of these costs had been designated as emergency requirements and were included in supplemental appropriations measures on an ad hoc basis. This disaster relief designation allowed a limited amount of additional appropriations for disaster costs into the annual appropriations process, instead of relying on emergency designations and supplemental appropriations bills. The formula to calculate the size of the adjustment was revised in 2018. Although the statutory au