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After Action Report: Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant (November 06, 2019)
From the Executive Summary: "On November 6, 2019 a Radiological Emergency Preparedness (REP) exercise was conducted at Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant (CPNPP) located near Glen Rose, Texas. The purpose of the exercise was to assess the level of preparedness of state and local responders to a simulated emergency at CPNPP. This exercise was conducted in accordance with U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (DHS/FEMA) policy and guidance concerning implementation of state and local emergency preparedness plans and procedures. [...] This report contains the final written evaluation of the biennial exercise. The state and local organizations except where noted in this report demonstrated knowledge of the emergency plans and procedures and properly implemented them. There were no Level 1 or Level 2 Findings and four plan issues identified during this exercise."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020-02-06
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Frequently Asked Questions: Consensus-Based Codes, Specifications and Standards for Public Assistance
"Purpose[:] '1. What is the purpose of using consensus-based codes, specifications and standards and to which facilities does it apply?' The purpose is to promote resiliency and reduce future risk in the repair and replacement of disaster damaged facilities funded by FEMA's PA program. The policy applies to: buildings, electric power, roads, bridges, and potable water and wastewater facilities. Applicability[:] '2. Is the Policy mandatory?' Yes, it is mandatory in all major disasters declared on or after the initial publication date of this Policy, November 6, 2019. '3. Who determines what codes, specifications and standards must be used in PA-funded projects?' Appendix A of the Policy identifies the required codes. The Applicant is responsible for identifying which of the consensus-based codes, specifications and standards are applicable for each PA project."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020-02
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Final After Action Report: Radiological Emergency Preparedness Exercise, V.C. Summer Nuclear Station [August 27, 2019]
From the Executive Summary: "On August 27, 2019, the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency Region IV Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program staff evaluated a full participation exercise for the plume exposure emergency planning zone of the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station. [...] The Federal Emergency Management Agency's overall objective of the exercise was to assess the level of state and local preparedness in response to a radiological emergency at V.C. Summer Nuclear Station. [...] The purpose of this report is to analyze exercise results, identify strengths to be maintained and built upon, and support development of corrective actions."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020-01-29
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Final After Action Report: Radiological Emergency Preparedness Exercise, Watts Bar Nuclear Plant [November 6, 2019]
From the Executive Summary: "On November 6, 2019, the offsite response organizations of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant 10-mile emergency planning zone participated in a plume exposure pathway exercise. FEMA Region IV Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program staff evaluated that exercise, which also included out of sequence activities conducted the week of July 8-12, 2019. This report outlines the results from both the exercise and out of sequence activities. The purpose of the exercise was to assess the level of state and county preparedness in responding to an incident at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020-01-27
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After Action Report/Improvement Plan: Relocation/Reentry/Return Evaluation, MS-1 Medical Services Drill, Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station [October 22-23, 2019]
From the Executive Summary: "On October 22-23, 2019, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region V Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program staff evaluated a Medical Services (MS-1) Drill and a Relocation, Reentry, and Return (RRR) Demonstration for the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station. The Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station is located in Ottawa County, Ohio. The purpose of the exercise was to assess the level of state and local preparedness in responding to an incident at the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station. This exercise was conducted in accordance with FEMA's policies and guidance concerning the exercise of state and local radiological emergency response plans and procedures. The previous federally-evaluated exercise at this site was conducted on May 2, 2017. The qualifying emergency preparedness exercises were conducted on March 31, 1987. Officials and representatives from the risk Counties of Ottawa and Lucas participated in this exercise. State and local officials demonstrated knowledge of their emergency response plans and procedures and successfully implemented them. The DHS/FEMA evaluation team identified No Findings."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020-01-15
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Disaster Relief Fund: Monthly Report as of December 31, 2019 (Fiscal Year 2020 Report to Congress)
From the Background: "P.L. 116-93 requires that the FEMA Administrator provide a report by the fifth business day of each month on the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) that includes a funding summary, a table delineating DRF funding activities each month by state and event, a summary of the funding for the catastrophic events, and the fund exhaustion date, or end-of-fiscal-year balance."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020-01-09
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Community Resilience Indicator Analysis: 'County-Level Analysis of Commonly Used Indicators from Peer-Reviewed Research 2020 Update'
From the Introduction: "As disasters continue to increase in frequency and cost, researchers across academic disciplines, including anthropology, ecology, engineering, sociology, and psychology, have attempted to identify and quantify features that make a community more resilient to disasters. In 2018, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Integration Center (NIC) Technical Assistance (TA) Branch asked Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) to review this body of research to provide a data-driven basis that would assist in prioritizing locations for TA investment and in informing community resilience TA content. The original analysis, released in 2018, was based primarily on U.S. Census and American Community Survey (ACS) 5- year average data for 2012-2016. This paper presents Argonne's analysis methodology, updates census-based indicators with the most recent census and ACS 5-year average data (2014-2018). This report will be updated every three years using future census and ACS 5-year average data as funding allows."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; Argonne National Laboratory
Edgemon, Lesley; Freeman, Carol; Burdi, Carmella . . .
2020
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Building Community Resilience with Nature-Based Solutions: A Guide for Local Communities
From the Document: "The key goal of this guide is to help communities identify and engage the staff and resources that can play a role in building resilience with nature-based solutions. Planning and building cost-effective nature-based solutions will require collaboration. Many departments may need to be involved in planning and carrying out the strategies in this guide. [...] Some local communities may use this guide to learn about nature-based solutions and weigh their value for the community. Others may be ready to move from planning to action. The guide includes six sections, and users can jump in at any point, depending on their current knowledge base and interests."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020?
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COVID-19 Best Practice Information: Economic Recovery
From the Background: "[1] States and jurisdictions across the country have directed residents to stay home; many more jurisdictions have shut down all 'non-essential' businesses. These 'shelter in place' policies have adversely affected thousands of businesses. [2] This document highlights best practices to mitigate the effects of shelter in place policies on businesses and steps to take to work towards economic recovery. These are best practices for consideration and do not constitute and should not be considered as guidance in any way."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020?
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COVID-19 Best Practice Information: Requesting Medical Resources
From the Background: "[1] There is an increasing shortage of medical resources to support COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] operations in local and state communities. These shortages are being seen at different levels across the nation as the COVID-19 public health emergency evolves and deepens. In order to maximize public health and medical resources and capacity in the United States, jurisdictions must exercise crisis standards of care, prioritize the employment of health care resources, and develop and implement innovative health care practices. [2] The following is a list of best practice considerations as they relate to ongoing COVID-19 operations across the country. These are best practices for consideration and do not constitute and should not be considered as guidance in any way."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020?
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COVID-19 Best Practice Information: Supply Chain
From the Background: "[1] Commercial truck drivers play a critical role in the coronavirus (COVID-19) response by delivering essential supplies including medicine, food, fuel, and personal protective equipment as part of the supply chain. With many gas stations and restaurants closing or reducing their operations in response to COVID-19, truck drivers are struggling to access meals, showers, and rest. This document compiles best practices for jurisdictions to consider how to ensure these services remain available to truck drivers. [2]This document contains considerations and recommendations from previous incidents and existing information, which may be helpful to support planning for COVID-19 efforts. These are best practices for consideration and do not constitute and should not be considered as guidance in any way."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020?
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COVID-19 Best Practice Information: Community Emergency Response Team
From the Background: "[1] The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program is a nationwide program that educates volunteers about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains members in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations. [2] This document describes how community leaders can best use CERT volunteers to respond to coronavirus (COVID-19). These are best practices for consideration and do not constitute or should be considered as guidance in any way."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020?
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COVID-19 Best Practice Information: Crisis Counseling
From the Background: "[1] During a pandemic it is common for individuals to feel emotional unrest. The healthcare system and various organizations are taking measures toward providing adequate aid and guidance for individuals with existing mental health conditions as well as those experiencing enhanced emotional distress during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. [2] The following is a list of key findings and considerations as they relate to ongoing COVID-19 response operations across the country. These are best practices for consideration and do not constitute and should not be considered as guidance in any way."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020?
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COVID-19 Best Practice Information: Use of the National Guard
From the Document: "Response to the coronavirus will necessitate a whole of community and whole of nation response. This document is one of a series designed to facilitate the sharing of best practices from other disaster events combined with the experiences of communities that have already faced some of the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] challenges. It is not exhaustive, but instead highlights some key areas where communities could benefit from the experiences of others. Each community knows their requirements best. [...] [1] Members of the National Guard can be activated to respond to a pandemic under state law, or under Titles 10 and 32 of the U.S. Code. [2] As of March 28, 2020, over 13,880 National Guard soldiers and airmen have been activated to support COVID-19 response efforts. [3] This post contains considerations and recommendations from previous incidents and existing information, which may be helpful to support planning efforts for COVID-19 efforts."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020?
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Pandemic COVID-19 Continuity of Operations Annex Template
From the Template Instructions: "This template provides guidance to assist organizations in developing a Pandemic COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Continuity of Operations plan or, if the organization already has a continuity plan, a Pandemic COVID-19 Annex. General guidance and sample information is provided for reference and organizations are encouraged to tailor Pandemic COVID-19 Continuity plans to meet specific organizational needs and requirements. The template contains all elements of a viable continuity plan and allows organizations to insert information as deemed appropriate."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020?
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COVID-19 Best Practice Information: Continuity of Operations
From the Background: "[1] Continuity of operations (COOP) during a pandemic requires using existing continuity plans and strategies in more adaptive ways to address unique operational requirements, to include employee health, social distancing, and widespread absenteeism. [2] The following is a list of key findings and considerations for jurisdictions and communities regarding ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) operations across the country. These are best practices for consideration and do not constitute or should be considered as guidance in any way."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020?
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ADA National Network Learning Session: FEMA Perspective on Emergency Management, COVID‐19 and People with Disabilities: An Overview of FEMA's Roles and Responsibilities in the Midst of COVID‐19 [presentation]
This Presentation covers the following topics: "[1] FEMA Whole-of-America COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Response; [2] COVID-19 Impacts on Persons with Disabilities; [3] FEMA Office of Disability Integration & Coordination (ODIC) COVID-19 Response; [4] ODIC Engagement with Disability Stakeholders; and [5] Resources[.]"
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020?
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FEMA Daily Briefing Points: COVID 19 Pandemic [series]
This is a series containing daily reports produced by the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) featuring sections with Topline Briefing Points and Messages, By the Numbers, Supply Chain Task Force, as well as FEMA and HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] Response.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020?
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2019 National Household Survey Results [presentation]
From the Document: "[1] The NHS [National Household Survey] assesses how the culture of personal disaster preparedness and resilience has changed over time in the United States. [2] FEMA has conducted this survey annually since 2013. [3] The NHS is a 'telephone interview survey' in which both landlines and cell phones are selected randomly to answer a set of survey questions. [4] FEMA selects a larger set of phone numbers in certain areas of the country that are at higher risk of one of 'six hazards', to gain more information from residents in those areas. These are called 'oversamples' (one oversample taken for each of these hazards). [5] In the '2019 NHS', FEMA interviewed '5,025 adults' (aged 18 years and older)."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2019-12-16?
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FEMA Policy Standards for Flood Risk Analysis and Mapping
From the Background: "This policy is applicable to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) staff delivering Risk Analysis and Mapping (Risk MAP), all mapping partners (contractors, cooperating technical partners, and other federal agencies) who perform flood risk projects on behalf of FEMA, and the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Additionally, this policy may be pertinent to states, tribes, territories, local communities, homeowners and their consultants who are interested in the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) process."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2019-12-11?
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Disaster Relief Fund: Monthly Report as of November 30, 2019 (Fiscal Year 2020 Report to Congress)
From the Background: "P.L. 116-6 requires that the FEMA Administrator provide a report by the fifth business day of each month on the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) that includes a funding summary, a table delineating DRF funding activities each month by state and event, a summary of the funding for the catastrophic events, and the fund exhaustion date, or end-of-fiscal-year balance."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2019-12-06
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National Advisory Council Report to the FEMA Administrator
From the Summary: "This report answers the charges that former Administrator Long asked the NAC [National Advisory Council] to review in December 2018. Specifically, the four charges were: 1. How can FEMA structure the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Grant Program to improve the resilience of critical lifelines? How can FEMA encourage improvements to critical lifeline infrastructure owned by the private sector? 2. What is the best way to close the insurance gap for all-hazards renter policies? 3. What are the barriers to effective code enforcement and how could FEMA support improvements? 4. How can FEMA continue to build financial preparedness? The NAC looked at these four charges through the three existing subcommittees: Response and Recovery, Preparedness and Protection, and Federal Insurance and Mitigation. Each subcommittee presented a number of recommendations to the full NAC, which discussed, debated, and ultimately passed the recommendations in this report."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2019-11-22
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Disaster Relief Fund: Monthly Report as of October 31, 2019 (Fiscal Year 2020 Report to Congress)
From the Background: "P.L. 116-6 requires that the FEMA Administrator provide a report by the fifth business day of each month on the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) that includes a funding summary, a table delineating DRF funding activities each month by state and event, a summary of the funding for the catastrophic events, and the fund exhaustion date, or end-of-fiscal-year balance."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2019-11-08
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Department of Homeland Security: Disaster Contracts Quarterly Report: Third Quarter, Fiscal Year 2019 (Fiscal Year 2019 Report to Congress)
From the Document: "This report was compiled pursuant to the language set forth in Title VI of the FY 2007 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations Act (P.L. 109-295). The report provides information and data on contracts, including those using disaster funds that were entered into by means other than competitive procedures."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2019-11-08
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Core Capability Development Sheets [November 5, 2019]
This document contains Core Capability Development Sheets in the areas of Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response, and Recovery as it relates to Emergency Preparedness and Response and the National Preparedness Goal.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2019-11-05
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Post-Disaster Building Safety Evaluation Guidance: Report on the Current State of Practice, Including Recommendations Related to Structural and Nonstructural Safety and Habitability
From the Executive Summary: "Section 1241(a) of the 'Disaster Recovery Reform Act' (DRRA) of 2018 requires the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to publish a report providing guidance on the best practices for post-disaster evaluation of buildings for both structural safety and habitability. This 'Guide' summarizes and references best practice guideline documents, identifies recommended improvements and needs, and provides interim recommendations for issues without best practice guidance. The following incident types are covered: earthquakes; hurricanes; floods; tornadoes; tsunamis; landslides and other land instabilities; volcanoes; snow, hail, and ice storms; fire; and explosions. This 'Guide' can be a reference for any post-incident evaluation process and is not limited by the scale or official declaration of a disaster."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (U.S.)
2019-11
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Emergency Operations Planning: Dam Incident Planning Guide
From the Introduction: "This 'Dam Incident Planning Guide' supports state, local, tribal, and territorial emergency managers in planning for dam incidents and failures by summarizing the concepts that a community should consider when creating dam incident-specific elements of local emergency operations plans. [...] It also provides guidance for dam owners and operators on how to engage with emergency managers prior to an incident to ensure a well-coordinated response."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2019-11
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FEMA Incident Stabilization Guide (Operational Draft)
From the Purpose: "The 'National Response Framework' (NRF), 4th Edition, introduces community lifelines (lifelines) in national-level doctrine. The FEMA 'Incident Stabilization Guide' (ISG) describes how FEMA implements lifelines and guides how FEMA applies these concepts to disaster operations. The primary objective of lifelines is to ensure the delivery of critical services that alleviate immediate threats to life and property when communities are impacted by disasters. The construct organizes and aligns these critical services into one of seven lifelines, [...] which help frame the way disaster impacts are identified, assessed, and addressed."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2019-11
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Guidance for Flood Risk Analysis and Mapping: Floodplain Boundary Standards (FBS)
From the Overview: "This document provides guidance for the implementation of Floodplain Boundary Standards (FBS), and the preparation for and performance of audits of compliance as part of the Risk MAP [Mapping, Assessment, and Planning] program. The reliability of the floodplain boundary delineation is quantified by comparing the computed flood elevation to the ground elevation at the mapped floodplain boundary."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2019-11
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Guidance for Flood Risk Analysis and Mapping: Coastal Structures
From the Overview: "This guidance document supports the standards related to approving coastal protection structures to be shown as providing protection on Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) and outlines methods for analyzing the stability and effects of coastal structures during the 1- percent-annual-chance flood conditions. Because coastal structures can significantly affect local topography and flood hazards, Mapping Partners must evaluate coastal structures as part of any flood hazard study. The evaluation should, where possible, determine whether a coastal structure will survive the 1-percent-annual-chance flood and what impacts it will have on upland flooding. Criteria for evaluating the stability and performance of coastal armoring structures for Flood Risk Project purposes are well-developed and are discussed in detail. Criteria for evaluating beach stabilization structures have not been developed yet, and only basic guidance is provided. Criteria for evaluating miscellaneous structures are not standardized, and only basic guidance is provided."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2019-11