Hill Heat: Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request for the Federal Emergency Management AgencyScience Policy Legislation Actiontag:www.hillheat.com,2005:TypoTypo2022-05-25T11:00:12-04:00Brad Johnsonurn:uuid:60450a3d-c46c-4e8a-9af1-19b7fd7433f82022-05-25T11:00:00-04:002022-05-25T11:00:12-04:00Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request for the Federal Emergency Management Agency<p><a href='https://appropriations.house.gov/events/hearings/fiscal-year-2023-budget-request-for-the-federal-emergency-management-agency'>Hearing page</a></p>
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Witness:
<ul>
<li>Deanne Criswell, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency</li>
</ul>
<p>The <span class="caps">FEMA</span> <a href='https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-03/22-%201835%20-%20FY%202023%20Budget%20in%20Brief%20FINAL%20with%20Cover_Remediated.pdf'><span class="caps">FY2023</span> budget request</a> is $29.5 billion.</p>
<p>The Homeland Security Act, as amended by the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform
Act, directs <span class="caps">FEMA</span> to reduce the loss of life and property and protect the nation from all hazards,
including natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other disasters through a risk-based,
comprehensive emergency management system of preparedness, protection, response, recovery,
and mitigation. As of January 2022, <span class="caps">FEMA</span> employed more than 22,000 personnel – including
term and intermittent employees – to carry out the Agency’s mission.</p>
<p>The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act) authorizes
the Federal government to provide assistance to
State, territorial, and local governments, tribal
nations, eligible private nonprofit organizations, and
individuals affected by an incident that receives a
Presidential major disaster or emergency
declaration.</p>
<p>The Disaster Recovery Reform Act of
2018 (DRRA, Division D of P.L. 115-254) includes
reforms to improve <span class="caps">FEMA</span>’s ability to carry out its
mission and better prepare the nation for disasters.
<span class="caps">FEMA</span> continues to make progress implementing
its provisions.</p>
<p><span class="caps">FEMA</span> also delivers the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), pre-disaster and post-disaster
mitigation grant programs, flood mapping, disaster planning, exercise management and
coordination, urban search and rescue coordination, the Homeland Security Grant Program, the
Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program, and other grants, training, and exercise programs.</p>
<p>The <span class="caps">FY 2023</span> President’s Budget includes increased funding for programs and activities that
support the goals outlined in the 2022-2026 <span class="caps">FEMA</span> Strategic Plan:</p>
<p>Civil Rights and Reasonable Accommodation Services and Support ($3.9M, 3 <span class="caps">FTE</span>)</p>
<p>Funds enable the Office of Equal Rights to enforce and ensure compliance with <span class="caps">FEMA</span>’s civil
rights responsibilities and proactively and comprehensively respond to civil rights complaints
filed by disaster survivors and members of the public regarding <span class="caps">FEMA</span> programs.</p>
<p>Privacy Organization Program ($2.0M, 4 <span class="caps">FTE</span>)</p>
<p><span class="caps">FEMA</span> will significantly advance its Privacy Program by expanding participation and customer
support for <span class="caps">FEMA</span> operations and State, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) stakeholders to
enhance privacy compliance and bolster privacy safeguards during rapid-paced response and
recovery efforts. <span class="caps">FEMA</span> will use an additional $2.2M from <span class="caps">DRF</span> carryover balances to support
this program in <span class="caps">FY 2023</span> for a total increase of $4.2M.</p>
<p>Regional Steady-State Interagency Coordination ($2.0M, 12 <span class="caps">FTE</span>)</p>
<p>Funds will assist <span class="caps">FEMA</span> in providing more equitable investment in disadvantaged communities
and aid underserved and marginalized communities to develop the structures, relationships, and
planning processes that promote equitable access to recovery resources post-disaster. <span class="caps">FEMA</span> will
also focus <span class="caps">SLTT</span> capacity building to mitigate existing gaps in steady-State services and
resources to communities.</p>
<p>Flood Hazard Mapping and Risk Analysis ($74.5M)</p>
<p>The Budget includes an additional $74.5M to further <span class="caps">FEMA</span>’s inventory of maps showing future
conditions for a program total of $507.7M. These funds may also be used to support the Federal
Flood Risk Mitigation Standard (FFRMS) and its climate-informed science activities with the
purpose of preparing for future flood conditions.</p>
<p>Equitable Investment in Risk Reduction ($5.0M, 12 <span class="caps">FTE</span>)</p>
<p>Funding will support sustained and equitable investment in risk reduction through catalyzing
community partnerships. Funds will also support creation of efficiencies and increase capabilities
within <span class="caps">FEMA</span>’s Regional and program offices that assist our <span class="caps">SLTT</span> partners, while maximizing
all available resources across three key assistance programs – Hazard Mitigation Grant Program,
National Dam Safety Program, and <span class="caps">BRIC</span> grant programs.</p>
<p>Flood Hazard Mapping and Floodplain Management Expansion ($4.3M, 30 <span class="caps">FTE</span>)</p>
<p>Funding for the <span class="caps">NFIP</span> will allow the program to be staffed to complete the mapping projects
initiated to deliver credible, up-to-date flood hazard information to communities and to manage
development in a way that reduces flood losses, equitably reduces disaster suffering, encourages
nature-based solutions and builds community resilience.</p>
<p><span class="caps">FY 2023</span> Major Disaster Estimate ($19.7B, 9,010 <span class="caps">FTE</span>)
The Budget reflects a major disaster allocation totaling $19.7B to address ongoing Stafford Act
disasters. The <span class="caps">FY 2023</span> requirement includes more than $941.0M over the <span class="caps">FY 2022</span> Budget for
the response to <span class="caps">COVID</span>-19 and other recovery projects. Cost estimates are derived from spend
plans prepared by <span class="caps">FEMA</span> Regions working with affected states and localities for ongoing
catastrophic disasters, historical average of obligations for non-catastrophic disasters, allocation
for <span class="caps">BRIC</span>, and a reserve to ensure <span class="caps">FEMA</span> maintains the ability to fund initial response operations
for new significant events.</p>
<p>Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center (MWEOC) ($53.0M)</p>
<p><span class="caps">MWEOC</span> has 565 acres and is a national asset providing resilient infrastructure, facilities,
logistics support, communications, operations centers, and support personnel for a wide variety
of vital government functions. It supports 30 plus different departments and agencies’ continuity
missions. <span class="caps">FY 2023</span> funds support facilities construction and modernization projects at the site.</p>
<p>Emergency Food and Shelter Program – Humanitarian Relief ($24.0M)</p>
<p>The Budget includes an increase of $24.0M to provide critical resources to migrants crossing the
southern border and communities providing humanitarian relief to the thousands of families and
individuals that do so, as well as any other humanitarian crisis that may arise. Funds will support
providing food, shelter, transportation, <span class="caps">COVID</span>-19 testing, and care associated with
recommended quarantining and isolation of this population.</p>
<p>Emergency Management Institute (EMI) Revitalization ($8.0M, 4 <span class="caps">FTE</span>)
To advance the Administration priorities of climate resilience and equity, <span class="caps">EMI</span> Revitalization
will modernize e-Campus systems, expand satellite partnerships, streamline course catalog,
develop executive crisis leadership program, and facilitate emergency management thought
leadership. This work will transform <span class="caps">EMI</span> to a National Emergency Management college,
continuing <span class="caps">EMI</span>’s 70-year history of educating and training the national security workforce to
meet the current risks of climate change and other emergent, persistent, and frequent hazards.</p>
<p>Support for Incident Management (IM) Workforce ($6.4M, 37 <span class="caps">FTE</span>)</p>
<p>This increase funds information technology and human capital specialists needed to recruit, hire,
equip, and support a significant expansion of <span class="caps">FEMA</span>’s IM Workforce. Funding will also support
non-pay costs associated with hiring, training, and equipping of incident management workforce
enabling <span class="caps">FEMA</span> to successfully execute its disaster response and recovery functions. <span class="caps">FEMA</span> will
use an additional $10.0M from <span class="caps">DRF</span> carryover balances to support the IM Workforce for a total
increase of $16.4M.</p>
<p>Non-Stafford Act Incident Management Assistance Team (IMAT) ($4.3M, 21 <span class="caps">FTE</span>)</p>
<p>Funds will provide <span class="caps">FEMA</span> with a ready-made capability to support the growing number of
contingencies related to complex incidents that are not related to a specific disaster declaration
under the Stafford Act.</p><p><a href='https://appropriations.house.gov/events/hearings/fiscal-year-2023-budget-request-for-the-federal-emergency-management-agency'>Hearing page</a></p>
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Witness:
<ul>
<li>Deanne Criswell, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency</li>
</ul>
<p>The <span class="caps">FEMA</span> <a href='https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-03/22-%201835%20-%20FY%202023%20Budget%20in%20Brief%20FINAL%20with%20Cover_Remediated.pdf'><span class="caps">FY2023</span> budget request</a> is $29.5 billion.</p>
<p>The Homeland Security Act, as amended by the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform
Act, directs <span class="caps">FEMA</span> to reduce the loss of life and property and protect the nation from all hazards,
including natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other disasters through a risk-based,
comprehensive emergency management system of preparedness, protection, response, recovery,
and mitigation. As of January 2022, <span class="caps">FEMA</span> employed more than 22,000 personnel – including
term and intermittent employees – to carry out the Agency’s mission.</p>
<p>The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act) authorizes
the Federal government to provide assistance to
State, territorial, and local governments, tribal
nations, eligible private nonprofit organizations, and
individuals affected by an incident that receives a
Presidential major disaster or emergency
declaration.</p>
<p>The Disaster Recovery Reform Act of
2018 (DRRA, Division D of P.L. 115-254) includes
reforms to improve <span class="caps">FEMA</span>’s ability to carry out its
mission and better prepare the nation for disasters.
<span class="caps">FEMA</span> continues to make progress implementing
its provisions.</p>
<p><span class="caps">FEMA</span> also delivers the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), pre-disaster and post-disaster
mitigation grant programs, flood mapping, disaster planning, exercise management and
coordination, urban search and rescue coordination, the Homeland Security Grant Program, the
Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program, and other grants, training, and exercise programs.</p>
<p>The <span class="caps">FY 2023</span> President’s Budget includes increased funding for programs and activities that
support the goals outlined in the 2022-2026 <span class="caps">FEMA</span> Strategic Plan:</p>
<p>Civil Rights and Reasonable Accommodation Services and Support ($3.9M, 3 <span class="caps">FTE</span>)</p>
<p>Funds enable the Office of Equal Rights to enforce and ensure compliance with <span class="caps">FEMA</span>’s civil
rights responsibilities and proactively and comprehensively respond to civil rights complaints
filed by disaster survivors and members of the public regarding <span class="caps">FEMA</span> programs.</p>
<p>Privacy Organization Program ($2.0M, 4 <span class="caps">FTE</span>)</p>
<p><span class="caps">FEMA</span> will significantly advance its Privacy Program by expanding participation and customer
support for <span class="caps">FEMA</span> operations and State, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) stakeholders to
enhance privacy compliance and bolster privacy safeguards during rapid-paced response and
recovery efforts. <span class="caps">FEMA</span> will use an additional $2.2M from <span class="caps">DRF</span> carryover balances to support
this program in <span class="caps">FY 2023</span> for a total increase of $4.2M.</p>
<p>Regional Steady-State Interagency Coordination ($2.0M, 12 <span class="caps">FTE</span>)</p>
<p>Funds will assist <span class="caps">FEMA</span> in providing more equitable investment in disadvantaged communities
and aid underserved and marginalized communities to develop the structures, relationships, and
planning processes that promote equitable access to recovery resources post-disaster. <span class="caps">FEMA</span> will
also focus <span class="caps">SLTT</span> capacity building to mitigate existing gaps in steady-State services and
resources to communities.</p>
<p>Flood Hazard Mapping and Risk Analysis ($74.5M)</p>
<p>The Budget includes an additional $74.5M to further <span class="caps">FEMA</span>’s inventory of maps showing future
conditions for a program total of $507.7M. These funds may also be used to support the Federal
Flood Risk Mitigation Standard (FFRMS) and its climate-informed science activities with the
purpose of preparing for future flood conditions.</p>
<p>Equitable Investment in Risk Reduction ($5.0M, 12 <span class="caps">FTE</span>)</p>
<p>Funding will support sustained and equitable investment in risk reduction through catalyzing
community partnerships. Funds will also support creation of efficiencies and increase capabilities
within <span class="caps">FEMA</span>’s Regional and program offices that assist our <span class="caps">SLTT</span> partners, while maximizing
all available resources across three key assistance programs – Hazard Mitigation Grant Program,
National Dam Safety Program, and <span class="caps">BRIC</span> grant programs.</p>
<p>Flood Hazard Mapping and Floodplain Management Expansion ($4.3M, 30 <span class="caps">FTE</span>)</p>
<p>Funding for the <span class="caps">NFIP</span> will allow the program to be staffed to complete the mapping projects
initiated to deliver credible, up-to-date flood hazard information to communities and to manage
development in a way that reduces flood losses, equitably reduces disaster suffering, encourages
nature-based solutions and builds community resilience.</p>
<p><span class="caps">FY 2023</span> Major Disaster Estimate ($19.7B, 9,010 <span class="caps">FTE</span>)
The Budget reflects a major disaster allocation totaling $19.7B to address ongoing Stafford Act
disasters. The <span class="caps">FY 2023</span> requirement includes more than $941.0M over the <span class="caps">FY 2022</span> Budget for
the response to <span class="caps">COVID</span>-19 and other recovery projects. Cost estimates are derived from spend
plans prepared by <span class="caps">FEMA</span> Regions working with affected states and localities for ongoing
catastrophic disasters, historical average of obligations for non-catastrophic disasters, allocation
for <span class="caps">BRIC</span>, and a reserve to ensure <span class="caps">FEMA</span> maintains the ability to fund initial response operations
for new significant events.</p>
<p>Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center (MWEOC) ($53.0M)</p>
<p><span class="caps">MWEOC</span> has 565 acres and is a national asset providing resilient infrastructure, facilities,
logistics support, communications, operations centers, and support personnel for a wide variety
of vital government functions. It supports 30 plus different departments and agencies’ continuity
missions. <span class="caps">FY 2023</span> funds support facilities construction and modernization projects at the site.</p>
<p>Emergency Food and Shelter Program – Humanitarian Relief ($24.0M)</p>
<p>The Budget includes an increase of $24.0M to provide critical resources to migrants crossing the
southern border and communities providing humanitarian relief to the thousands of families and
individuals that do so, as well as any other humanitarian crisis that may arise. Funds will support
providing food, shelter, transportation, <span class="caps">COVID</span>-19 testing, and care associated with
recommended quarantining and isolation of this population.</p>
<p>Emergency Management Institute (EMI) Revitalization ($8.0M, 4 <span class="caps">FTE</span>)
To advance the Administration priorities of climate resilience and equity, <span class="caps">EMI</span> Revitalization
will modernize e-Campus systems, expand satellite partnerships, streamline course catalog,
develop executive crisis leadership program, and facilitate emergency management thought
leadership. This work will transform <span class="caps">EMI</span> to a National Emergency Management college,
continuing <span class="caps">EMI</span>’s 70-year history of educating and training the national security workforce to
meet the current risks of climate change and other emergent, persistent, and frequent hazards.</p>
<p>Support for Incident Management (IM) Workforce ($6.4M, 37 <span class="caps">FTE</span>)</p>
<p>This increase funds information technology and human capital specialists needed to recruit, hire,
equip, and support a significant expansion of <span class="caps">FEMA</span>’s IM Workforce. Funding will also support
non-pay costs associated with hiring, training, and equipping of incident management workforce
enabling <span class="caps">FEMA</span> to successfully execute its disaster response and recovery functions. <span class="caps">FEMA</span> will
use an additional $10.0M from <span class="caps">DRF</span> carryover balances to support the IM Workforce for a total
increase of $16.4M.</p>
<p>Non-Stafford Act Incident Management Assistance Team (IMAT) ($4.3M, 21 <span class="caps">FTE</span>)</p>
<p>Funds will provide <span class="caps">FEMA</span> with a ready-made capability to support the growing number of
contingencies related to complex incidents that are not related to a specific disaster declaration
under the Stafford Act.</p>