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  2. Local Mitigation Strategy - Wikipedia

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    Status of Local Hazard Mitigation Plans from FEMA as of March, 2018. A Local Mitigation Strategy (LMS) or Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP) is a local government plan (in the United States, typically implemented at a county level), that is designed to reduce or eliminate risks to people and property from natural and man-made hazards.

  3. Disaster risk reduction - Wikipedia

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    This strategy contains 4 steps: organise resources, assess risks, develop mitigation strategies, and implement plans. [15] These steps are broad, as they are designed to be applied to a wide variety of hazards. FEMA also has more specific policy plans, such as their Hazard Mitigation Field Book (HMFB) on Roadways.

  4. Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 - Wikipedia

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    The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, Public Law 106-390, also called DMA2K, is U.S. federal legislation passed in 2000 that amended provisions of the United States Code related to disaster relief. The amended provisions are named after Robert Stafford, who led the passage of the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988.

  5. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act

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    Mainly, it expanded eligibility for hazard mitigation funding by allowing the President to contribute up to 75% of the cost of hazard mitigation measures that they determine to be cost effective and increasing resilience, and to set aside funding for pre-disaster mitigation from the Disaster Relief Fund.

  6. Understanding FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 system for flood ... - AOL

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    FEMA Risk Rating 2.0 rates were not expected to dramatically change for most current policyholders. From 1996 to 2019, 99 percent of U.S. counties experienced at least one flooding event.

  7. Emergency management - Wikipedia

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    FEMA also operates a Building Science Branch that develops and produces multi-hazard mitigation guidance that focuses on creating disaster-resilient communities to reduce loss of life and property. [37] FEMA advises people to prepare their homes with some emergency essentials in the event food distribution lines are interrupted.

  8. Federal Emergency Management Agency - Wikipedia

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    As a result, FEMA became part of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate of Department of Homeland Security, employing more than 2,600 full-time employees. It became Federal Emergency Management Agency again on March 31, 2007, but remained in DHS. [19] President Bush appointed Michael D. Brown as FEMA's director in January 2003 ...

  9. 'Ridiculous and just plain false': FEMA administrator knocks ...

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    Criswell defended FEMA's response and shot down Trump’s claims that the agency is short on disaster relief funds because money has been diverted to help undocumented immigrants, and that help is ...