Anon afterwards aion kinah passage, U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.V., and columnist of the bill, said, “For added than a decade Indian tribes acquire accustomed a absolute band to the federal government in adjustment to accelerate aid during an emergency or above disaster. Now, with this activity by the Abode of Representatives, they are one acute footfall afterpiece to accepting able to admission adapted federal abetment if abrupt affliction hits.”Federal Emergency Administering Bureau (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate aswell offered top praise: “The U.S. government has a altered government-to-government accord with federally accustomed affiliated governments, and alteration the Stafford Act to admit this absolute accord will alone strengthen the way that FEMA supports affiliated communities before, afterwards and during disasters.