Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000

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THE COUNTY OF YUBA
OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES The Disaster
Mitigation Act of 2000
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Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000

• The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA 2000)
  requires
• hazard mitigation planning as a part of the
  Stafford Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.
• Local government entities are required
• to develop and submit local hazard mitigation
  plans by November 1, 2004 to be eligible to
  receive federal hazard mitigation grant program
  (HMGP) funds.
• Public Law 106-390

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DMA 2000

• Increases the emphasis on multi-agency integrated
  planning for reducing disaster costs in terms of
  loss of life, loss of property, and economic
  disruption
• Emphasizes the local governments responsibility
  for mitigation of hazards
• Increases the emphasis placed on state and local
  planning to
• Assess risks
• Implement loss reduction measures
• Ensure critical services/facilities survive a
  disaster

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Risk Assessments

• Risk assessments should provide
• The factual basis for activities proposed in the
  strategy to reduce losses from identified
  hazards.
• Sufficient information to enable the jurisdiction
  to identify and prioritize appropriate mitigation
  actions to reduce losses from identified hazards.
• 44 CFR Part 201.6(c)(2)

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Risk Assessment

• The plan must include
• a description of the type, location, and extent
  of all natural hazards that can affect the
  jurisdiction.
• information on previous occurrences of hazard
  events and on the probability of future hazard
  events.
• 44 CFR 201.6(c)(2)(i)

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Risk Assessment

• The Plan must include
• a description of the jurisdictions vulnerability
  to each identified hazard
• an overall summary of each identified hazard and
  its impact on the community.
• 44 CFR 201.6(c)(2)(ii)

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Vulnerability

• The plan should include
• A description of vulnerability
• types and numbers of existing buildings,
• infrastructure, and critical facilities
• An estimate for each identified hazard of the
  potential dollar losses to vulnerable structures
  identified
• A description of the methodology used to prepare
  the estimates.

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Vulnerability (continued)

• The vulnerability description should also
  include a discussion of future buildings
  infrastructure and critical facilities, and the
  potential human and economic impact that each
  identified hazard would have on the jurisdiction.
  
• 44 CFR 201.6(c)(ii)(A) (B)

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Mitigation Strategy

• The Plan must include a mitigation strategy that
  provides the jurisdictions blueprint for
  reducing the potential losses identified in the
  risk assessment based on existing authorities,
  policies, programs and resources, and its ability
  to expand on and improve these existing tools.
• 44 CFR 201.6(c)(3)
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Mitigation Strategy (Continued)

• The Mitigation Strategy shall address FEMAs
  Floodplain Map Modernization Program and
  Repetitive Loss Initiative including
  prioritization of mitigation measures towards
  repetitive loss properties fulfillment of CRS
  planning requirements, and FEMAs on-going field
  and database verification projects for repetitive
  loss properties.

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Local Hazard Mitigation Goals

• The Plan shall include a description of
  mitigation goals to reduce or avoid long-term
  vulnerabilities to the identified hazards.
• 44 CFR 201.6(c)(3)(i)

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Identification Analysis of Mitigation Measures

• The Plan shall include a section that
  identifies, evaluates, and analyzes a
  comprehensive range of specific mitigation
  actions and projects being considered to reduce
  the effects of each hazard identified, with
  particular emphasis on new and existing buildings
  and infrastructure.
• 44 CFR 201.6(c)(3)(ii)

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Implementation of Mitigation Measures

• The plan shall include an action plan describing
  how the actions identified will be prioritized,
  implemented, and administered by the local
  jurisdiction. This Section shall include the
  implementation timeline the funding sources or
  other resources that will be used to implement
  the strategy, when possible and the agency or
  personnel responsible for carrying out these
  actions.
• 44 CFR 201.6(c)(3)(iii)
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Implementation of Mitigation Measures

• For FEMA program funding these mitigation
  measures must be cost effective, environmentally
  sound and technically feasible. The local
  jurisdiction and the State must prioritize the
  measures based on these criteria.

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Implementation Through Existing Programs

• The Plan must include a description of the
  process by which local jurisdictions incorporate
  the requirements of the mitigation plan into
  other planning mechanisms such as comprehensive
  or capital improvement plans, when appropriate.
• 44 CFR 201.6(c)(4)(ii)

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New Yuba County OES Web Page

• http//www.co.yuba.ca.us/content/departments/oes
• The web site will contain information helpful to
  
• Stakeholders involved in the planning process,
  and
• The general public looking for preparedness
  information.