(1)
Under the Natural Disaster Assistance Act, the Director of the Office of Emergency Services is required to administer a program which provides financial assistance to local agencies for the repair, restoration, or replacement of public real property of the agency that is damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster.
Existing law includes, within the definition of local agency, private nonprofit organizations which operate a private nonprofit facility, as defined, on a nondiscriminatory basis.
This bill would, except as specified in the bill, remove private nonprofit organizations from the definition of a local agency.
(2)
The bill would, however, specify that, for purposes of disaster assistance associated with the October 17, 1989, earthquake, a private nonprofit organization eligible for disaster assistance under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act would also be eligible for, and may receive, assistance under the Natural Disaster Assistance Act. It would specify that this provision would apply only to private nonprofit organizations which have filed with the Office of Emergency Services, in accordance with the final deadline established by that office, a notice of interest, as defined.
The bill would repeal this provision as of January 1, 1992, but would specify that its repeal would not affect assistance to any private nonprofit organization qualifying under the bill.
(3)
This bill would also make technical, clarifying changes by repealing various duplicative or overlapping provisions added by Chapter 23 of the 1989–90 First Extraordinary Session.