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The last portion of Title III, Section 322, sets forth the requirements of mitigation plans. Each plan developed by a local or tribal government must both describe actions to mitigate hazards and risks identified under the plan and it must establish a strategy to implement those actions. State plans must do four things.
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.
According to the Federation of American Scientists, during the Cold War FEMA prepared assessments of the likely consequences of a full-scale Soviet nuclear attack on the United States for use in planning mitigation and recovery efforts. [62] FEMA also prepared plans for evacuating major U.S. cities in response to a nuclear war, dubbed CRP-2B. [63]
According to the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, which amended the Stafford Act, county and local governmental agencies need to have a hazard mitigation plan that is updated every five years to ...
Council members Tuesday unanimously adopted the Lebanon County 2023 Hazard Mitigation Plan as the borough's mitigation plan, which makes the borough eligible for certain federal disaster relief funds.
Emergency management plans and procedures should include the identification of appropriately trained staff members responsible for decision-making when an emergency occurs. Training plans should include internal people, contractors and civil protection partners, and should state the nature and frequency of training and testing.
FEMA's Mitigation Directorate [56] is responsible for programs that take action before a disaster, in order to identify risks and reduce injuries, loss of property, and recovery time. [57] The agency has major analysis programs for floods , hurricanes and tropical storms , dams, and earthquakes .
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.