Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Assistance Program: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, March 2, 1993 |
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Page 256 - Director to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Page 287 - Secours" and the Government and the people and armies of the United States of America. Fifth. And to continue and carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and apply the same in mitigating the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods, and other great national calamities. Sixth. And to devise and carry on measures for preventing the same, and generally to promote measures of humanity and the welfare of mankind.
Page 325 - Emergency support functions include transportation, communications, public works and engineering, firefighting, information and planning, mass care, resource support, health and medical services, urban search and rescue, hazardous materials, food, and energy.
Page 324 - US which, in the determination of the President, is or threatens to be of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant disaster assistance by the Federal Government under...
Page 149 - Agriculture and small business loan programs are authorized separately by committees with little or no interest in mainline emergency management programs. The result is a hodge-podge of statutory authorizations providing sometimes conflicting and outdated guidance which, in our judgment, slows and materially complicates the Federal response to natural disasters.
Page 325 - ... assistance under the Federal Response Plan fall into a consistent set of functional areas, regardless of the type of hazard that caused the emergency. The...
Page 51 - Informtion collected is used by the State as a basis for the Governor's request, and by FEMA to document the recommendation made to the President in response to the Governor's request. It is in the best...
Page 324 - The Stafford Act provides the authority for the Federal Government to respond to disasters and emergencies in order to provide assistance to save lives and protect public health, safety, and property. The Federal Response Plan...
Page 324 - Section 416 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act...
Page 225 - Thus, emergency management includes "civil defense" for and operations in either attack-related or disaster-related emergencies. Section 207 allows Federal Civil Defense Act funds to be used for disaster preparedness and response if such use "is consistent with, contributes to, and does not detract from attack-related civil defense preparedness.