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Appendix A: The Federal Policy Environment Influencing Disaster Recovery
Pages 415-420

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... ROBERT T STAFFORD DISASTER RELIEF AND EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE ACT,1 MOST RECENTLY AMENDED BY THE SANDY RECOVERY IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 20132 The Stafford Act (Public Law 93-288)
From page 416...
... Among its other provisions, especially relevant to recovery, was adding to the Stafford Act mission a focus on reunification of families through the development of a National Emergency Family Registry and Locator System and a Child Locator Center. The act also established a National Advisory Council, and it called for the appointment of a FEMA disability coordinator and a small state and rural 3  DisasterMitigation Act of 2000, Public Law 106-390, 106th Cong., H.R.707 (October 30, 2000)
From page 417...
... of December 2006 amended the Public Health Service Act to establish the position of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the U.S.
From page 418...
... . Remaining objectives include enhancing the national capability to produce and effectively use both medical countermeasures and non-pharmaceutical interventions; ensuring comprehensive health situational awareness to support decision making before incidents and during response and recovery operations; enhancing the integration and effectiveness of the public health, health care, and emergency management systems; and strengthening global health security (HHS, 2015)
From page 419...
... The strategy sets forth 69 recommendations designed to achieve the following goals: "promoting resilient rebuilding through innovative ideas and a thorough understanding of current and future risk; ensuring a regionally coordinated, resilient approach to infrastructure investment; restoring and strengthening homes and providing families with safe, affordable housing options; supporting small businesses and revitalizing local economies; addressing insurance challenges, understanding, and affordability; building state and local capacity to plan for and implement long-term recovery and rebuilding; [and] improving data sharing between federal, state and local officials" (Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, 2013, p.
From page 420...
... 2011. Public health preparedness capabilities: National standards for state and local planning.


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