Wednesday, June 17, 2015

FEMA funding. This should have been enacted a couple of decades ago.

The Committee also strongly supports hazard mitigation programs.  For every $1 invested in mitigation, $4 can be saved in disaster recovery.  For that reason, $165 million above the FY2015 enacted level amounts are recommended in mitigation programs, including $190 million for Flood Hazard Mapping and Risk Assessment Program and $100 million for the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program.

Why is prevention seen as a bother to federal legislators? Funding disaster after it happens is not reverent to the lives of Americans.