Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 1664 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Relief for Recovering Communities Act''. SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF URBANIZED AREAS FOLLOWING A MAJOR DISASTER. Section 5307 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: ``(i) Urbanized Areas Following a Major Disaster.-- ``(1) Defined term.--In this section, the term `major disaster' has the meaning given such term in section 102(2) of the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5122(2)). ``(2) Urbanized area major disaster population criteria.-- Notwithstanding section 5302, the Secretary shall treat an area as an `urbanized area' for purposes of this section until the second decennial census conducted after a major disaster in such area if-- ``(A) the area was defined and designated as an `urbanized area' by the Secretary of Commerce in the decennial census immediately preceding such major disaster, effective with the 2000 decennial census; and ``(B) the population of the area fell below 50,000 as a result of such major disaster.…
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