95 of the 109th Congress, this emergency designation shall remain in effect through October 1, 2006.
In a February resolution requesting emergency designation for four structures, Community Board 10 urged the city to reverse what it called a "long-term pattern of neglect".
The emergency designation was recommended by a committee of independent experts to the United Nations agency following criticism of a hesitant response so far.
Experts have said it is unclear how a national emergency designation would work in this case, since it is a long-term public health issue.
President Trump declared the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency, a designation that still stands.
Earlier this year, the World Health Organization declared the eradication of polio to be a world-wide health emergency (a designation which makes it easier to release funds).
USAID has declared a "food crisis" in parts of both countries and a "food emergency" — the designation just below famine — to wide swaths of neighboring South Sudan.
In late July, the commission released an interim report urging Trump to declare the opioid epidemic a national emergency, a designation usually reserved for natural disasters, like the flooding in Houston, or infectious-disease outbreaks, like Zika.
And Trump earlier this year declared the situation at the Mexico border a national emergency, a designation that he has said allows him to redirect taxpayer money to expedite the construction of a wall.
