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“FEMA should be able to use climate projections when it rates hazard risk, reviews project benefits and costs, updates hazard standards, and guides the design of funded projects for future floods, wildfires, and other disasters.”
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“FEMA should identify communities for extra mitigation help when they face high natural hazard risk, disproportionate health or environmental harms, or small-community economic hardship.”
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“FEMA should be able to use a larger share of certain disaster funds for public infrastructure that reduces future damage, and set aside 2 percent of certain expected disaster grants after major disasters to help communities plan projects and manage grant work.”
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“Federal disaster policy should help communities reduce future damage before the next flood, fire, storm, or other disaster.”
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“FEMA should launch the home retrofit pilot within one year, end it on September 30, 2030, and report to Congress on how many grants and upgrades were completed, who received them, what they cost, how much damage and federal spending they may have avoided, and what problems came up.”
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“FEMA should work with partner organizations to help high-risk and under-resourced communities apply for predisaster mitigation grants, choose projects using climate, hazard, and social vulnerability data, and prepare, submit, and manage grant applications.”
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“FEMA should be allowed to use up to 10 percent of its yearly predisaster mitigation assistance for home retrofit grants, and the new pilot rules should apply only to money Congress provides in the future, not older funds.”
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“The federal government should be able to pay up to 90 percent of eligible predisaster mitigation project costs in small impoverished communities and environmental justice communities.”
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“FEMA should evaluate completed disaster projects and estimate how much money might have been saved if proper mitigation had been in place before the disaster.”
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“FEMA should give predisaster mitigation grant priority to communities with high disaster risk, environmental justice concerns, low tax revenue, weak building code adoption or enforcement, or low infrastructure maintenance spending, and use measurable data tools to find places with the greatest need.”
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“These building-code and home-retrofit changes should apply only to FEMA's predisaster hazard mitigation program and hazard mitigation revolving loan fund, not to other FEMA disaster programs.”
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