Managing International Disasters--Guatemala: Hearings and Markup Before the Subcommittee on International Reesources [sic] Food, and Energy of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 12046 ... February 18 and March 4, 1976U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 92 pages |
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$25 million Administrator AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL amendment assessment Atlantic Highway authorized bill Cash Chairman CHALLENOR Chimaltenango Congress construction Coordinator cost damage Daniel Parker Department of Defense DIGGS disaster relief account disaster relief operations distribution DoD Components donors earthquake economic effect Engineers estimated February February 18 field hospital foreign disaster relief funds gentleman GILMAN Government of Guatemala Guate Guatemala City Guatemalan Government Hechler helicopters Herman Kleine highway homeless Honduras housing immediate International Development Ken Hechler KLEINE LAGOMARSINO major materials medical supplies ment military needs NELSON Nicaragua PARKER percent phase President Laugerud private voluntary organizations problem programs Puerto Barrios quake rehabilitation and reconstruction rehabilitation assistance relief and rehabilitation relief effort requested response road ROBERT N. C. NIX roofing rural areas shelter SOLARZ subcommittee Thank tion transportation trucks U.S. Government United victims voluntary agencies Weissman
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Page 84 - Directive applies to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Military Departments, the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Unified and Specified Commands, and the Defense Agencies (hereafter referred to as "DoD Components"). The term, "Military Service," as used herein, refers to the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
Page 82 - There is authorized to be appropriated to the President to carry out the purposes of this chapter, in addition to funds otherwise available for such purposes, for the fiscal year 1974 not to exceed $032,000.000, which amount is authorized to remain available until expended.
Page 43 - Such reimbursement or payment shall be made to the owning or disposal agency, as the case may be, at replacement cost, or, if required by law, at actual cost, or at any other price authorized by law and agreed to between the Administrator and such agency.
Page 82 - Fund shall furnish to the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate...
Page 6 - ... Mr. Parker was born in Chicago, June 8, 1925. He served as an officer in the US Marine Corps from 1942 to 1946, during which time he was with the 1st Marine Division in North China. He attended St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., and received his bachelor's degree from Milton College, Milton, Wis., in 1947, and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Graduate School of Business in 1949. He has received honorary doctorates from Milton College and American University. In 1950,...
Page 66 - Over the next months, we anticipate that the Guatemalan Government's planning process will identify specific, longerrun needs which could appropriately be met through AID development loans and grants and which would clearly be consistent with congressional mandate criteria for development assistance. We should seek to be responsive within the means that may be made available through the appropriation process . 2. External Assistance from Other Sources For the post-emergency relief phase, I believe...
Page 53 - To provide for relief and rehabilitation assistance to the victims of the earthquakes In Guatemala, and for other purposes Be it enacted. 6j/ the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slates of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Guatemala Disaster Relief Act of 1976".
Page 84 - See also foreign disaster relief. (JP 3-08) foreign disaster relief — Prompt aid that can be used to alleviate the suffering of foreign disaster victims. Normally it includes humanitarian services and transportation; the provision of food, clothing, medicine, beds, and bedding; temporary shelter and housing; the furnishing of medical materiel and medical and technical personnel; and making repairs to essential services.
Page 85 - See also domestic emergencies; foreign disaster; foreign humanitarian assistance; security assistance. (JP 3-08) foreign disaster — An act of nature (such as a flood, drought, fire, hurricane, earthquake, volcanic eruption, or epidemic), or an act of man (such as a riot, violence, civil strife, explosion, fire, or epidemic), which is or threatens to be of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant United States foreign disaster relief to a foreign country, foreign persons, or to an international...