---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 538.7002-2"
title: "48"
number: "538.7002-2"
heading: "Disaster purchasing program."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/538.7002-2"
---

# §538.7002-2. Disaster purchasing program.

- (a) [40 U.S.C. 502(d)](/usc/40/502.md?p=d) allows State or local governments, as defined in 40. U.S.C. 502(c)(3), to purchase supplies or services that are to be used to facilitate—
  - (1) Disaster preparedness or response;
  - (2) **Recovery from a major disaster declared by the President under the Robert T.** Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ([42 U.S.C. 5121](/usc/42/5121.md) et seq.); or
  - (3) **Recovery from terrorism, nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attack.**
- (b) **The GSA program that implements this authority is called the Disaster Purchasing program.**

## Notes

### Source

Source: 89 FR 13284, Feb. 22, 2024, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 40 U.S.C. 121(c).

### Source

Source: 64 FR 37227, July 9, 1999, unless otherwise noted.