The funding will go toward modernizing the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis Ocean Observing System to make data more available and enable more accurate tsunami forecasting.
The report recommends that the university “create a mandatory active assailant training program for faculty and staff that includes general best practices and specific training based on the variety of cross-campus facilities."
Regulators will be adding new building requirements for construction in flood-prone areas, which would require structures to be built five feet higher than existing flood elevations established by FEMA.
As part of the preparedness exercise, Oregon emergency personnel will teach community leaders how to set up the evacuation assembly point equipment. Emergency supplies will be made available to coastal communities.
They are among 16 states and one Tribal Nation eligible for the federal funding, which will allow those entities to receive mitigation funding faster after a flood-related disaster.
Officials from the Department of Environmental Quality said that they are consistently monitoring air quality, especially during fire season because "the largest impacts to air quality are from wildlife smoke."
The University of the Virgin Islands Caribbean Green Technology Center has worked since 2020 with the Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management agency and FEMA’s Office of Disaster Recovery developing the plan.
The Lake County Office of Emergency Services launched a one-stop public webpage for residents to obtain information on preparedness, response, and recovery from disasters, including how to make a plan and where to get alerts.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the plan aims to build domestic emerging tech strengths and collaborations with like-minded partners on international supply chains and global norms of safe and rights-respecting technology use.
One change is that the Forest Service released a plan to expand prescribed fire training and created a western prescribed fire training curriculum, which increases the pace of fire training qualifications.
