Economic Disaster Area Assistance Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Economic Disaster Area Assistance Act - Declares that the purpose of the Act is to authorize the President to provide a direct program of Federal assistance to individuals, and to State and local government, in order to alleviate the wasteful economic disruption and loss resulting from regional economic disasters. Revises the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965. Establishes within the Department of Commerce an Office of Aid to Economic Disaster Areas, to be headed by a Director who shall be appointed by the President to serve at his pleasure, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Makes it the duty and function of the Office and the Director: (1) to carry out the purposes of this Act; (2) to assist and advise the President on methods, policies, and programs designed to reduce unemployment and to stimulate the economies of economic disaster areas; (3) to train and have available a professional staff of Federal coordinating officers for assignment to areas designated as economic disaster areas; (4) to review and appraise the various Federal assistance programs for the purpose of determining the extent to which such programs and activities do or can contribute…