Guide for All-Hazard Emergency Operations Planning


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Meant to aid State & local emergency managers in their efforts to develop & maintain a viable all-hazard emergency operations plan. This guide clarifies the preparedness, response, & short-term recovery planning elements that warrant inclusion in emergency operations plans. It offers the best judgment & recommendations on how to deal with the entire planning process -- from forming a planning team to writing the plan. Specific topics of discussion include: preliminary considerations, the planning process, emergency operations plan format, basic plan content, functional annex content, hazard-unique planning, & linking Federal & State operations.




FEMA Preparedness Grants Manual - Version 2 February 2021


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FEMA has the statutory authority to deliver numerous disaster and non-disaster financial assistance programs in support of its mission, and that of the Department of Homeland Security, largely through grants and cooperative agreements. These programs account for a significant amount of the federal funds for which FEMA is accountable. FEMA officials are responsible and accountable for the proper administration of these funds pursuant to federal laws and regulations, Office of Management and Budget circulars, and federal appropriations law principles.







Disaster Law


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Recent hurricanes and other natural disasters demonstrate serious gaps in the legal system and its ability to respond to events of such magnitude. "Disasters and the Law: Katrina and Beyond" studies disaster response, prevention, and mitigation strategies by integrating knowledge and experience from urban planning, bankruptcy law, and wetlands law.
















Providing for Consideration of the Senate Amendment to the Bill (H.R. 3326) Making Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2010, and for Other Purposes; for Consideration of the Joint Resolution (H.J. Res. 64) Making Further Continuing Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2010, and for Other Purposes; for Consideration of the Bill (H.R. 4314) to Permit Continued Financing of Government Operations; for Consideration of the Senate Amendment to the Bill (H.R. 2847) Making Appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and Science, and Related Agencies for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2010, and for Other Purposes; and for Other Purposes


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