FLOOD01390

• County: Statewide
• Title: Standard Operating Procedures Manual for Interagency Hazard Mitigation Teams
• Date: 3/1/1984
• Prepared For: US
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Historic FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

There is no funding available on a team basis to help implement the
recommendations it makes. However, individual agencies do have
technical and monetary resources that can be applied under their
individual programs to repairs and reconstruction, It is up to the team
to insure that these individual efforts fit together in a comprehensive,
cost-reducing format,

WHY MUST THIS BE DONE IMMEDIATELY?

The team recognizes the stressful conditions under which the people in
the disaster area are currently operating, but it is of paramount
importance that the investigation be started quickly so that the team
recommendations can be acted upon at the outset of the recovery process.
Any delay in exposing mitigation opportunities would likely result in
their forfeit because redevelopment begins rapidly and is difficult to
redirect once it does begin.

HOW IS HAZARD MITIGATION TIED TO THE DELIVERY OF DISASTER ASSISTANCE?

As a requirement for receiving Federal disaster assistance. the State
has agreed to prepare, within 180 days, a STATE-WIDE COMPREHENSIVE
HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN with priority attention placed on, but not
limited to, the recommendations made in the is-day report. A STATE
HAZARD MITIGATION COORDINATOR has been designated to prepare the plan
and insure its implementation.

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE AFFECTED LOCAL COMMUNITIES?

It is of primary importance that all appropriate local officials, as
members of the team, assist the team in identifying the following:

a) Areas of significant impact and critical facilities.

b) Situations that contributed to the flooding.

c) Previous and current hazard mitigation efforts
or studies.

d) The flood history of the area.

e) All appropriate local codes and ordinances and
long-range plans.

f) Mitigation opportunities