Report on the Costs of Domestic and International Emergencies and on the ThreatsPosed by the Kuwaiti Oil Fires as Required by P.L. 102-55

摘要

The report fulfills the requirements of Public Law 12-55, the FY 1992 direemergency supplemental appropriations bill, signed by the President on June 13, 1991. This law required the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to prepare and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on: unfunded costs of dire emergencies because of floods, droughts, tornadoes, unemployment, and other disasters in the United States; unfunded costs, including food assistance, of international disaster emergencies existing because of floods, droughts, tornadoes, and other disasters; and the threats to oil supply, human health, and the environment that the Kuwaiti oil fires might pose.