PROJECT OVERVIEW
Provide a profile of existing conditions within the county, including demographics, geography, development trends, and transportation patterns;
Identify areas of the County that are vulnerable to specific natural hazard events; and,
Describe the history of past natural hazard events that impacted Marion County.
On October 30, 2000, the President signed into law the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA 2000). In addition to streamlining the delivery and utilization of disaster recovery assistance, the ultimate purposes of DMA 2000 are to:
· Establish a national disaster hazard mitigation program that will reduce loss of life and property, human suffering, economic disruption, and disaster assistance costs resulting from disasters, and
· Provide a source of pre-disaster hazard mitigation funding that will assist States and local governments in accomplishing that purpose.
DMA 2000 amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act by, among other things, adding a new section, 322 - Mitigation Planning. Section 322 places new emphasis on local mitigation planning. It requires local governments to prepare and adopt jurisdiction-wide hazard mitigation plans as a condition of receiving Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) project grants. Local governments must review and if necessary, update the mitigation plan every five years from the original date of the plan to continue program eligibility.
NATURAL HAZARDS MITIGATION PLAN
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Steering Committee