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118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 6882
To enhance the Federal Government's planning and preparation for
extreme weather and the Federal Government's dissemination of best
practices to respond to extreme weather, thereby increasing resilience,
improving regional coordination, and mitigating the financial risk to
the Federal Government from such extreme weather, and for other
purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
December 22, 2023
Mr. Cartwright (for himself, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Mr. Connolly, Mr.
Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Gonzalez-Colon, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. Moylan, Ms. Norton,
Mrs. Peltola, Mr. Peters, Ms. Tokuda, and Ms. Wild) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation
and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and
Accountability, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee
concerned
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A BILL
To enhance the Federal Government's planning and preparation for
extreme weather and the Federal Government's dissemination of best
practices to respond to extreme weather, thereby increasing resilience,
improving regional coordination, and mitigating the financial risk to
the Federal Government from such extreme weather, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Preparedness and
Risk Management for Extreme Weather Patterns Assuring Resilience and
Effectiveness Act of 2023'' or the ``PREPARE Act of 2023''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as
follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Interagency Council on Extreme Weather Resilience,
Preparedness, and Risk Identification and
Management.
Sec. 3. Agency planning for extreme weather-related risks.
Sec. 4. Website.
Sec. 5. Providing adequate resources and support.
Sec. 6. Inventory.
Sec. 7. Meetings.
Sec. 8. Progress updates.
Sec. 9. Definitions.
Sec. 10. Requirement to include agency extreme weather plan in agency
performance plan.
SEC. 2. INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON EXTREME WEATHER RESILIENCE,
PREPAREDNESS, AND RISK IDENTIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT.
(a) Establishment.--
(1) In general.--The President shall establish an
interagency council on extreme weather resilience,
preparedness, and risk identification and management.
(2) Designation.--Notwithstanding subsection (b) and
subsection (c)(1), the President may designate an existing
Government entity to carry out the duties described in
subsections (f) and (g).
(b) Membership.--The Interagency Council shall be composed of the
following:
(1) Senior officials, to be appointed by the head of the
respective agency in consultation with the President, including
representation from the following:
(A) The Council on Environmental Quality.
(B) The Office of Science and Technology Policy.
(C) The National Security Council.
(D) The Office of Management and Budget.
(E) The Department of Transportation.
(F) The Environmental Protection Agency.
(G) The National Institute of Standards and
Technology.
(H) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
(I) The Department of Energy.
(J) The Department of Homeland Security.
(K) The Federal Emergency Management Agency.
(L) The Department of Defense.
(M) The National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
(N) The Department of Agriculture.
(O) The Department of Housing and Urban
Development.
(P) The Department of Justice.
(Q) The Department of the Interior.
(R) The Department of Commerce.
(S) The National Science Foundation.
(T) The United States Geological Survey.
(U) The United States Army Corps of Engineers.
(V) The General Services Administration.
(W) The Department of State.
(X) The Department of Health and Human Services.
(Y) The Department of Labor.
(2) Senior officials, to be appointed by the President, who
have relevant policy expertise and policy responsibilities,
including in the following areas:
(A) Economic policy and risk analysis.
(B) Foreign affairs.
(C) Defense and intelligence.
(D) Homeland security.
(E) Energy.
(F) Environmental protection.
(G) Natural and cultural resources.
(H) Coasts, oceans, rivers, wetlands, and
floodplains.
(I) Agriculture.
(J) Health and social services.
(K) Transportation and infrastructure.
(L) Housing.
(M) Education.
(N) Extreme weather data analysis or meteorological
science.
(O) Social science.
(P) Strategic and adaptation planning.
(Q) Urban and land use planning.
(R) Infrastructure systems.
(S) Civil rights.
(T) Forestry and land management.
(U) Acquisition.
(V) Environmental justice.
(W) Emergency management.
(X) Other areas the President determines
appropriate.
(c) Co-Chairpersons.--
(1) In general.--The Interagency Council shall be co-
chaired by the Administrator of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency and the Deputy Director of the Office of
Management and Budget. The President may appoint one or more
additional members as co-chairs, as appropriate.
(2) Duties.--The co-chairpersons shall--
(A) oversee the Interagency Council's response to
the Government Accountability Office's recommendations
under subsection (f)(5);
(B) use the evaluation framework and performance
metrics developed pursuant to subsection (f)(6) to
evaluate agency progress in meeting the goals and
implementing the priorities described in subsection
(f)(1)(A); and
(C) work to ensure that sufficient resources are
available for agencies to--
(i) meet the goals and implement the
priorities described in subsection (f)(1)(A);
and
(ii) implement the recommendations
developed under subsection (f)(2).
(d) Administration.--The co-chairpersons of the Interagency Council
(or staff designated by the co-chairpersons) shall provide
administrative support and additional resources, as appropriate, to the
Interagency Council to the extent permitted by law and within existing
appropriations. The Interagency Council co-chairpersons shall determine
the amount of funding and personnel necessary for the Interagency
Council to carry out its duties and the amount of funding and personnel
each agency represented on the Interagency Council should contribute in
order for the Interagency Council to carry out such duties. Agencies
shall, upon the request of the co-chairpersons of the Interagency
Council, make available personnel, administrative support services, and
information to the Interagency Council.
(e) Structure.--
(1) Steering committee.--The co-chairpersons of the
Interagency Council shall designate a subset of members of the
Interagency Council to serve on a steering committee based on
expertise and established leadership in the field. Such
steering committee shall assist the Interagency Council in
determining its priorities and its strategic direction.
(2) Working groups.--The co-chairpersons of the Interagency
Council and its steering committee may establish working groups
as needed.
(f) Duties of the Interagency Council.--
(1) Goals and priorities.--
(A) In general.--The Interagency Council shall
establish Governmentwide goals and priorities for
addressing extreme weather resilience, preparedness,
and risk identification and management, taking into
account regional, economic, cultural, and ecological
variations, and the disproportionate harm caused by
extreme weather on vulnerable and underserved
individuals and communities. In establishing such goals
and priorities, the Interagency Council shall consider
agency extreme weather plans required under section
3(a), agency Climate Adaptation Action Plans, the
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution
Contingency Plan, agency continuity of operations
plans, the National Preparedness Goal, the National
Preparedness Report, the National Global Change
Research Plan, plans for the development and
implementation of the Building Resilient Infrastructure
and Communities program, the Mitigation Framework
Leadership Group's National Mitigation Investment
Strategy, the strategic plan required under the
National Windstorm Impact Reduction Reauthorization Act
of 2015 (Public Law 114-52), State mitigation plans,
State resilience plans, energy assurance plans, coastal
zone management plans, watershed plans, other landscape
plans, and all relevant findings described in the
Government Accountability Office's High-Risk Series.
(B) Coordination.--In executing the duties pursuant
to this subsection, the Interagency Council shall
coordinate with other entities in the Federal
Government focused on extreme weather mitigation and
recovery (including the Mitigation Framework Leadership
Group, the Recovery Support Functions Leaders Group,
the Emergency Support Functions Leaders Group, the
Interagency Council for Advancing Meteorological
Services, the U.S. Global Climate Change Research
Program, the National Drought Resilience Partnership,
and the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program),
to facilitate communication and collaboration among
Federal activities.
(C) Incorporation into agency activities.--In
carrying out subparagraph (A), the Interagency Council
shall, in order to ensure that information relating to
extreme weather resilience, preparedness, and risk
identification and management is incorporated into
everyday agency activities--
(i) work with agencies to assist such
agencies in considering the goals and
priorities described in subparagraph (A) in
agency strategic, programmatic, and budget
planning;
(ii) identify details to be included in
agency extreme weather plans;
(iii) work to identify localized extreme
weather and natural hazard risk to the extent
possible using the best available information
regarding risk, and encourage the development
of thorough, updated maps, models, and tools to
measure and evaluate risk; and
(iv) communicate extreme weather and
natural hazards resilience, preparedness,
mitigation, response, and recovery using
techniques founded in social and behavioral
science.
(2) Priority interagency federal actions.--The Interagency
Council shall develop, recommend, coordinate, and track
implementation of priority interagency Federal Government
actions related to addressing extreme weather resilience,
preparedness, and risk identification and management with an
emphasis on vulnerable and underserved communities.
(3) Support regional, state, tribal, and local actions.--
The Interagency Council shall support regional, State, Tribal,
and local action to assess extreme weather-related
vulnerabilities, or the degree to which a system is susceptible
to, or unable to cope with, adverse effects of extreme weather
including climate variability and extremes, public health, and
the cost to effectively increase extreme weather resilience,
preparedness, and risk identification and management of
communities, critical economic sectors, natural and built
infrastructure, and natural and cultural resources, including
by--
(A) conducting inventories under section 6;
(B) convening meetings under section 7;
(C) providing guidance to agencies to produce tools
and products that enhance extreme weather resilience
planning, risk knowledge, and actions for use in all
levels of government, particularly for vulnerable and
underserved communities, including guidance on cost-
effectiveness as it pertains to extreme weather and on
how to prioritize funding in order to produce such
tools and products; and
(D) reviewing State adaptation plans.
(4) Meteorological and extreme weather science.--The
Interagency Council shall facilitate the integration of
meteorological and extreme weather science, in addition to
other scientific disciplines such as physical, natural, and
social science that the Council determines to be appropriate,
in the policies, risk evaluation and communication, and
planning of agencies and the private sector, including by--
(A) promoting the development of innovative,
actionable, and accessible Federal extreme weather
resilience, preparedness, and risk identification and
management-related information, data, tools, and
examples of successful actions at appropriate scales
for decisionmakers; and
(B) providing such information, data, tools, and
examples to the agency or agencies designated under
section 4 to include on the website established and
maintained or designated pursuant to such section.
(5) High-risk report recommendations.--The Interagency
Council shall assess the specific recommendations relating to
extreme weather described in the Government Accountability
Office's High-Risk Series, identify the feasibility of revising
or better coordinating existing Federal programs to implement
such recommendations, and develop a plan to address such
recommendations when feasible that does not duplicate the
National Preparedness Goal.
(6) Framework and performance metrics.--The Interagency
Council shall appoint an evaluation Officer to oversee the use
of existing and emerging science to develop or adopt--
(A) a framework for evaluating the progress and
success of extreme weather resilience, preparedness,
and risk identification and management-related efforts
that is complementary to and not duplicative of any
local or national indicator system developed as part of
the National Preparedness Goal; and
(B) performance metrics, including quantitative
metrics, that allow tracking of the actions taken and
progress made toward meeting the goals and implementing
the priorities described in paragraph (1)(A).
(7) Recommendations for the ceq, omb, ostp, and department
of homeland security.--The Interagency Council shall provide to
the Council on Environmental Quality, the Office of Management
and Budget, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and
the Department of Homeland Security recommendations on how
agencies should--
(A) develop or update agency extreme weather plans;
(B) remove barriers to and facilitate State,
Tribal, and local actions to address extreme weather
resilience, preparedness, and risk identification and
management, in agency regulations, guidance, and
policies, including any specific considerations for
vulnerable communities within those localities; and
(C) avoid duplication among Federal activities to
the extent practicable.
(8) Public input and comment.--The Interagency Council
shall solicit and incorporate public input and comment as
appropriate into the decisions of the Interagency Council.
(9) Inventory and meetings.--The Interagency Council shall
conduct inventories under section 6 and convene meetings under
section 7.
(10) Definition of extreme weather.--The Interagency
Council shall consider and may update, not less frequently than
every two years, in consultation with appropriate scientific
bodies, the definition of ``extreme weather'' and what other
weather events (in addition to those described in section 9(3))
qualify as extreme weather for purposes of this Act. The
definition of ``extreme weather'' shall be published and
updated, as necessary, on the website of the Council and in the
Federal Register.
(11) Other duties.--The Interagency Council shall carry out
any other duties related to the purposes of this Act that the
co-chairpersons of the Interagency Council determine
appropriate.
(12) Public information.--The Interagency Council shall,
using social and behavioral science as part of the
methodology--
(A) make information available online--
(i) for tracking implementation of agency
extreme weather plans and Governmentwide goals
and priorities described in paragraph (1)(A);
(ii) on recommendations relating to extreme
weather described in the Government
Accountability Office's High-Risk Series; and
(iii) on the results of the Council's
efforts to identify nationwide and localized
risks (including updated mapping efforts); and
(B) make such High-Risk Series and the reports
submitted under paragraph (13) available as the Council
determines appropriate.
(13) Annual report.--Not later than one year after the date
of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter
(concurrently with the United States Global Change Research
Program Annual Report and the National Preparedness Report),
the Interagency Council shall submit to Congress, and make
available to the United States Global Change Research Program
and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a report that--
(A) describes how the goals and priorities
described in paragraph (1)(A) are being met and
implemented using--
(i) the performance metrics developed under
paragraph (6)(B); and
(ii) information (excluding classified
information or information otherwise protected
from release by law) on--
(I) agency expenditures, broken
down by program activity level if
practicable, that are directly related
to addressing extreme weather
resilience, preparedness, and risk
identification and management,
including extreme weather resilience,
preparedness, and risk identification
and management of Federal facilities
and, as feasible, infrastructure funded
through Federal grants and other
programs; and
(II) the effectiveness of such
expenditures, along with associated
financial impacts and community,
infrastructure, and environmental
benefits, to the extent such data are
available;
(B) provides recommendations to enhance the
effectiveness of such implementation and sets
benchmarks to meet;
(C) describes the progress of the regional
coordination efforts described in sections 6, 7, and 8;
and
(D) includes a summary of public comments solicited
under paragraph (8) and any action the Interagency
Council took to respond to such comments.
(g) Consultation.--In carrying out paragraphs (2) through (12) of
subsection (f), the Interagency Council shall consult with Federal
agencies, State, Tribal, and local governments, academic and research
institutions, and the private and nonprofit sectors.
(h) OMB Guidance.--The Director of the Office of Management and
Budget, taking into consideration the recommendations provided by the
Interagency Council under subsection (f)(7), shall issue guidance to
agencies on--
(1) developing agency extreme weather plans, which shall
incorporate existing agency reports, where appropriate, to
prevent duplication and reduce overlap;
(2) developing agency regulations, guidance, and policies
to remove barriers to and facilitate State, Tribal, and local
actions to address extreme weather resilience, preparedness,
and risk identification and management; and
(3) assessing and managing extreme weather-related risks
under OMB Circular A-123 ``Management's Responsibility for
Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Control''.
SEC. 3. AGENCY PLANNING FOR EXTREME WEATHER-RELATED RISKS.
(a) Agency Extreme Weather Resilience, Preparedness, and Risk
Identification and Management Plans.--
(1) Agency submission.--Not later than 1 year after the
date of the enactment of this Act, and every 2 years
thereafter, the head of each agency, in coordination with the
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to
avoid duplication with the National Planning Frameworks, shall
submit to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget,
the appropriations and authorization committees of
jurisdiction, and to the Interagency Council a comprehensive
plan that integrates consideration of extreme weather into such
agency's operations and overall mission objectives (hereinafter
referred to as an ``agency extreme weather plan''). Such plan
shall exclude any classified information or information
otherwise protected from release by law.
(2) Hearing.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, and every 2 years thereafter, the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall convene
an interagency budget crosscut and policy hearing to review and
integrate all the agency extreme weather plans and to ensure
that such extreme weather plans and the activities of agencies
align with the goals and priorities established under section
2(f)(1)(A).
(3) Communication to staff.--Any agency extreme weather
plan prepared under this section shall be made available to
relevant employees of the agency.
(b) Inclusions.--Each agency extreme weather plan shall include--
(1) identification and assessment of extreme weather-
related impacts on, and risks to--
(A) the agency's ability to accomplish its
missions, operations, and programs over time periods to
be designated by the Interagency Council; and
(B) State, Tribal, and local entities;
(2) identification and assessment of barriers posed and
improvements that could be made to Federal programs the agency
administers to facilitate State, Tribal, and local actions to
address extreme weather resilience, preparedness, and risk
identification and management efforts;
(3) a description of programs, policies, and plans the
agency has already put in place, as well as additional actions
the agency will take, to manage extreme weather risks in the
near term and build resilience in the short and long term;
(4) a description of how the agency will consider the need
to improve extreme weather resilience, preparedness, and risk
identification and management, including the costs and benefits
of such improvement, with respect to agency suppliers, supply
chain, real property investments, and capital equipment
purchases, including by updating agency policies for leasing,
building upgrades, relocation of existing facilities and
equipment, and construction of new facilities;
(5) a description of how the agency will support any
ongoing or future public-private partnership to improve extreme
weather resilience, preparedness, and risk identification and
management, including the cost and benefits of technology and
methodology improvements, hardening, or rapid restoration;
(6) a description of how the agency will contribute to
coordinated interagency efforts to support extreme weather
resilience, preparedness, and risk identification and
management at all levels of government, including collaborative
work across agencies' regional offices and hubs, and through
coordinated development of information, data, and tools,
consistent with sections 6, 7, and 8; and
(7) any other details identified by the Interagency Council
under section 2(f)(1)(C)(ii).
SEC. 4. WEBSITE.
(a) In General.--The Interagency Council shall designate an agency
or agencies to establish and maintain, or designate a website that
provides timely, actionable, and accessible information, data, and
tools on current and future risks related to extreme weather,
preparedness, resilience, and risk identification and management, to
support Federal, regional, State, Tribal, local, private sector, and
other decisionmakers such as standards developing bodies responsible
for establishing building codes and design standards for
infrastructure.
(b) Interagency Progress.--The website described under subsection
(a), shall identify interagency progress, and propose the next
interagency steps, towards responding to threats posed by extreme
weather.
(c) Best Practices.--The website described under subsection (a)
shall provide best practices and examples from Federal, regional,
State, Tribal, and local decisionmakers in the public and private
sectors about how to use extreme weather-related information in
planning and decision making.
(d) Interagency Council Information and Tools.--The website
described under subsection (a) shall include the information, data,
tools, and examples provided by the Interagency Council pursuant to
section 2(f)(4).
(e) Best Available Meteorological Science.--The website described
under subsection (a) shall work with the Intergovernmental Council for
Advancing Meteorological Services and the United States Global Change
Research program to identify best available meteorological and related
science regarding extreme weather resilience, preparedness, and risk
identification and management.
(f) Public Outreach and Education.--The Interagency Council shall
designate one or more agencies to conduct outreach and educational
activities to inform the public and regional, State, Tribal, and local
decisionmakers about the tools and information available on the website
described under subsection (a).
SEC. 5. PROVIDING ADEQUATE RESOURCES AND SUPPORT.
The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall ensure
that each agency provides adequate resources to the Interagency
Council, including administrative services and personnel support, as
appropriate--
(1) for the website described under section 4; and
(2) to otherwise carry out this Act.
SEC. 6. INVENTORY.
(a) In General.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, and every 2 years thereafter, the Interagency
Council, or a working group of such Interagency Council established by
the co-chairpersons thereof, shall conduct and publish an inventory of
all regional offices, centers, and programs of agencies that are
assisting with extreme weather resilience, preparedness, and risk
identification and management efforts at the State, Tribal, or local
level, including--
(1) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
national and regional centers and programs;
(2) the Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife
Service Landscape Conservation Cooperatives;
(3) the United States Geological Survey's Climate
Adaptation Science Centers;
(4) the Department of Agriculture's Climate Hubs;
(5) the regional offices of--
(A) the Environmental Protection Agency;
(B) the Federal Emergency Management Agency;
(C) the Department of Transportation; and
(D) the Forest Service;
(6) the division offices of the Army Corps of Engineers;
and
(7) such other offices, centers, and programs or other
agency efforts as determined appropriate by the Interagency
Council.
(b) Assistance Described.--An inventory conducted and published
under subsection (a) shall include a description of the assistance each
agency office, center, or program is providing to assist with extreme
weather resilience, preparedness, and risk identification and
management efforts at the State, Tribal, or local level.
SEC. 7. MEETINGS.
Not later than 6 months after the publication of each inventory
under section 6, the Interagency Council shall convene a meeting of
representatives of the offices, centers, and programs included in such
inventory and invite other local and regional stakeholders to
participate and develop plans to coordinate the efforts of such
offices, centers, and programs and facilitate efficient services to
stakeholders. At such meetings, such representatives shall--
(1) share information regarding their office, center, or
program's extreme weather resilience, preparedness, and risk
identification and management efforts;
(2) identify opportunities for collaboration and
coordination of research agendas, extreme weather assessment
activities, vulnerability assessments, data collection and
analysis, and planning and implementing extreme weather
resilience, preparedness, and risk identification and
management projects, including reviewing existing Memorandums
of Understanding between agencies;
(3) identify extreme weather resilience, preparedness, and
risk identification and management information needs, research
gaps, and decision support needs that are not met by any of the
offices, centers, or programs included in the inventory under
section 6 and make available such identification for purposes
of information to be submitted to the Interagency Council under
section 7;
(4) identify common and complementary goals for extreme
weather resilience, preparedness, and risk identification and
management within each region to be prioritized for the coming
year and beyond;
(5) identify resources and actions needed to strengthen
regional extreme weather resilience, preparedness, and risk
identification and management planning and implementation;
(6) evaluate progress and jointly develop a strategy for
realizing extreme weather resilience, preparedness, and risk
identification and management-related goals, including clearly
identified responsibilities by each collaborating regional
office, center, or program; and
(7) share experiences and best practices in stakeholder
engagement and communication, decision support, social science,
and science-practice interactions that support the realization
of identified extreme weather resilience, preparedness, and
risk identification and management goals.
SEC. 8. PROGRESS UPDATES.
Not later than 90 days after each meeting under section 7, each
agency that participates in such meeting shall submit to the
Interagency Council, and make available to the United States Global
Change Research Program, the United States Weather Research Program,
and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, information describing
progress in regional coordination and collaboration in aligning Federal
resilience, preparedness, and risk identification and management
efforts at the State, Tribal, and local level, and the benefits of such
regional coordination and collaboration.
SEC. 9. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) Agency.--The term ``agency'' has the meaning given the
term ``Executive agency'' under section 105 of title 5, but
does not include the Government Accountability Office.
(2) Agency extreme weather plan.--The term ``agency extreme
weather plan'' means a plan required under section 3(a).
(3) Extreme weather.--The term ``extreme weather'' includes
observed or anticipated severe atmospheric conditions,
including drought, wildfire, heavy precipitation, wave, high
water, snowstorm, landslide, mudslide, hurricanes, tornadoes
and other windstorms (including derechos), extreme heat,
extreme cold, sustained temperatures or precipitation, floods
and inundation, including those that deviate from historical
averages over decadal timescales without an apparent return to
the previous normal state, and any other weather event that the
Interagency Council determines qualifies as extreme weather
pursuant to section 2(f)(10).
(4) Interagency council.--The term ``Interagency Council''
means the Interagency Council on Extreme Weather Resilience,
Preparedness, and Risk Identification and Management
established under section 2(a).
(5) Mitigation plan.--The term ``mitigation plan'' means
the mitigation plan required under section 322 of the Robert T.
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 5165).
(6) National global change research plan.--The term
``National Global Change Research Plan'' means the National
Global Change Research Plan developed under section 104 of the
Global Change Research Act of 1990 (15 U.S.C. 2934), or any
revision thereof.
(7) National oil and hazardous substances pollution
contingency plan.--The term ``National Oil and Hazardous
Substances Pollution Contingency Plan'' means the National Oil
and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan described
under part 300 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, or any
revision thereof.
(8) National preparedness goal.--The term ``National
Preparedness Goal'' means the national preparedness goal
developed under section 643 of the Post-Katrina Emergency
Management Reform Act of 2006 (6 U.S.C. 743).
(9) National preparedness report.--The term ``National
Preparedness Report'' means the report required by section
652(a) of the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of
2006 (6 U.S.C. 752(a)).
(10) Preparedness.--The term ``preparedness'' means actions
taken to plan, organize, equip, train, and exercise to build,
apply, and sustain the capabilities necessary to prevent,
protect against, ameliorate the effects of, respond to, and
recover from extreme weather related damages to life, health,
property, livelihoods, ecosystems, and national security.
(11) Resilience.--The term ``resilience'' means an ability
to prepare for anticipated hazards, adapt to changing
conditions, and withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions.
(12) Risk.--The term ``risk'' means a combination of the
magnitude of the potential consequences of extreme weather
impacts and the likelihood that the consequences will occur.
(13) Senior official.--The term ``senior official'' means a
Deputy Secretary (or an equivalent officer) of an agency.
(14) State.--The term ``State'' means each of the several
States, the District of Columbia, each commonwealth, territory,
or possession of the United States.
(15) United states global change research program.--The
term ``United States Global Change Research Program'' means the
United States Global Change Research Program established under
section 103 of the Global Change Research Act of 1990 (15
U.S.C. 2933).
(16) United states global change research program annual
report.--The term ``United States Global Change Research
Program Annual Report'' means the report required by section
102(e)(7) of the Global Change Research Act of 1990 (15 U.S.C.
2932(e)(7)).
SEC. 10. REQUIREMENT TO INCLUDE AGENCY EXTREME WEATHER PLAN IN AGENCY
PERFORMANCE PLAN.
A description of the most recent agency extreme weather plan, as
required under section 3, shall be included in the performance plan of
an agency (as defined in section 9) required pursuant to section
1115(b) of title 31, United States Code.
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Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Accountability, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Accountability, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Accountability, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
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