Modify the World Trade Center Disaster Action Plan

Resolution calling upon the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Empire State Development Corporation, the Governor of the State of New York and the Mayor of the City of New York to modify the World Trade Center Disaster Action Plan for Businesses and the guidelines for the Small Firm Attraction and Retention Grant Program so that any business with fewer than 20 employees, including a business functioning in a "live/work environment", that was operating from business premises located south of Canal Street, and those operating south of Delancey Street and east of Lafayette Street, as of September 11, 2001, can immediately qualify for a $3,500 or $5,000 grant under the Small Firm Attraction and Retention Grant Program, for as many as 10 employees, by "reaffirming" their current lease commitment for a period of five years from September 11, 2001; in the event that such businesses move out of lower Manhattan prior to this five-year period, they will be subject to a "clawback" provision requiring them to return all Small Firm Attraction and Retention Grant Program grant money that they receive.