Emergency Disaster Recovery Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Emergency Disaster Recovery Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to families for the purpose of covering essential unmet expenses relating to the repair, rehabilitation, or replacement of residential and personal property which are necessitated by any major disaster, natural disaster, or disaster determined by the President, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, or the Secretary of HUD. Provides that the aggregate amount expended for grants in connection with any disaster may not exceed an amount equal to $2,500 multiplied by the Secretary's estimate of the number of families affected by the disaster who will need such grants. Prescribes the requirements to be met in any contracts entered into by the Secretary in carrying out the provisions of this Act. Provides that the functions conferred on the Secretary by this Act shall be carried out through the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.…