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8/11/8G(J4;LEGAL(Wnm) RESOLUTION NO. 86- 52 A RESOLUTION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, URGING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND SPECIFICALLY OUR UNITED STATES SENATORS, THE HONORABLE LAWTON CHILES AND THE HONORABLE PAULA HAWKINS, AND INDIAN RIVER COUNTY' REPRESENTATIVES IN THE UNITED STATES DOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE HONORABLE BILL NELSON AND THE HONORABLE TOM LEWIS, TO REJECT THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY'S PROPOSED REVISIONS TO THE DISASTER RELIEF ACT OF 1974, SEVERELY RESTRICTING THE AVAILABILITY OF DISASTER RELIEF ASSISTANCE. WHEREAS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency Is responsible for providing federal disaster assistance loans to the public and private sectors when the President declares an area to be a disaster area, pursuant to Public Law 93-288, the Disaster Relief Act of 1974; and, WHEREAS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has proposed changes which will drastically reduce the amount of money available for loans to restore stricken areas, while restricting the circumstances under which such relief will be granted and limiting the President's power to declare disasters; and, WHEREAS, the proposed amendments to the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 include a plan which will require local governments to build, at their own expense, a system of shelters to protect state and local government officials in the event of nuclear war; and, WHEREAS, the total affect of the Federal Emergency Management Agency proposals will provide no protection from nuclear attack to average citizens while drastically reducing the disaster assistance funds which have been available in the past on numerous occasions to provide relief for areas stricken by cataclysmic occurrences; and, WHEREAS, the current disaster relief programs established by the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 have served I