---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5204a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5204a"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations for insular areas"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5204a"
units:
  - "Chapter 68 — Disaster Relief"
  - "Subchapter V — Miscellaneous"
---

# §5204a. Authorization of appropriations for insular areas


There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) such sums as may be necessary to—

- (1) reconstruct essential [public facilities](/usc/42/5122.md?p=10) damaged by [disasters](/usc/42/5204.md?p=2) in the [insular areas](/usc/42/5204.md?p=1) that occurred prior to February 24, 1992; and
- (2) enhance the survivability of essential [public facilities](/usc/42/5122.md?p=10) in the event of [disasters](/usc/42/5204.md?p=2) in the [insular areas](/usc/42/5204.md?p=1),

except that with respect to the [disaster](/usc/42/5204.md?p=2) declared by the President in the case of Hurricane Hugo, September 1989, amounts for any fiscal year shall not exceed 25 percent of the estimated aggregate amount of grants to be made under sections [5170b](/usc/42/5170b.md) and [5172](/usc/42/5172.md) of this title for such [disaster](/usc/42/5204.md?p=2). Such sums shall remain available until expended.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–247, title II, § 202, Feb. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 37.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Omnibus Insular Areas Act of 1992, and not as part of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act which comprises this chapter.