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02/11/10
FEMA Accepting Public Comments on Draft National Disaster Recovery Framework
Category: The Washington Update
Posted by: lriley
The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with the interagency Long Term Disaster Recovery Working Group, issued a draft of the National Disaster Recovery Framework —focused on engaging state, local and tribal governments, nonprofit partners, the private sector, and the public to enhance the nation’s ability to recovery from disasters.
The report is now available for review by visiting www.DisasterRecoveryWorkingGroup.gov. The comment period will run through Feb. 26, 2010.
The National Disaster Recovery Framework provides a model to collectively identify and address challenges that arise during the disaster recovery process—designed to help the broad emergency management community work better together to support individuals, households and communities as they rebuild and restore their ways of life following a disaster.
The Recovery Framework document will be available next week at www.regulations.gov in Docket FEMA-2010-0004. Individuals and other stakeholders who wish to submit comments can do so at www.regulations.gov using the Docket identification number as a search term.
For more information about the Recovery Framework, visit http://www.fema.gov/recoveryframework.
NARC encourages members to submit public comments with a focus on the benefits of working regionally through regional planning organizations pre- and post-disaster.