Consolidation of Federal Asistance Resources will Enhance the Federal-State Emergency Management Effort

摘要

By consolidating the resources of closely related emergency planning and preparedness assistance programs provided to the States into a broader emergency management assistance program, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) could promote more effective and coordinated implementation of Federal and State objectives. FEMA's current approach of funding closely related emergency management objectives through separate, narrowly defined categorical funding programs spawns a fragmented piecemeal approach to planning and preparedness activities that sometimes fosters duplication and inhibits the coordinated and effective use of program resources needed to achieve Federal emergency management objectives. In a promising first step, FEMA began to move to a consolidated assistance framework by developing a single comprehensive funding package which streamlined FEMA and State administration of categorical planning and preparedness assistance programs.