Published: 2008
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Other supplemental appropriations legislation enacted after catastrophic disasters (or several significant disasters that occurred in short time intervals) range from almost $366 million in FY2001 before the terrorist attacks (largely due to the Nisqually earthquake in the summer of 2001) to more than $12 billion for the Midwest floods of 1993 and the Northridge earthquake of 1994. [...] The mean funding for the set of all of the enacted bills reflects the total funding for the period divided by the total number of 34 enacted measures. [...] The June 9, 2008 amendment to the FY2009 budget request did include increased funding of $989,000 for the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding for continued operations. [...] Division B contains additional disaster and non- disaster funding as follows: a total $6.355 billion for FEMA Disaster Relief funding, Housing and Urban Development funding for the Road Home project, Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management funding for Wildland Fire Management, $165,200 for the traditional payment to the heirs of the late Jo Ann Davis, and $1,025,398,000 for the Census Bureau' [...] FEMA for disaster relief for Hurricane Isabel and the California wildfires was added to the legislation, bringing the total enacted funding for P. L. 108-106 to $87.5 billion.