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Washington Revised Code Title 38. Militia and Military Affairs § 38.52.590. Disaster resilience program

Current as of April 06, 2022 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

(1) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the emergency management division within the department shall develop and administer a disaster resilience program. The program should include:

(a) Methods for ensuring ongoing coordination of state and local disaster resilience and response activities, including:

(i) Coordinating funding to maximize federal, state, local, and private investments;

(ii) Serving as a public and private disaster resilience resource center;

(iii) Enhancing interagency collaboration, education, and outreach programs; and

(iv) Identifying and leveraging respective roles, authorities, and expertise of agencies;

(b) Strategies for addressing the impacts of all hazards, both natural and human-caused, such as border closures, including:

(i) Developing, coordinating, and communicating disaster resilience initiatives and projects across state agencies and local governments on hazards and issues where there is not another lead agency for coordinating resilience activities, including projects that give special consideration to exclave communities;

(ii) Conducting policy research and recommendations related to enhancing disaster resilience;

(iii) Coordinating research, data collection, and analysis;

(iv) Researching economic tools to address disaster resilience; and

(v) Recommending investments to mitigate disaster risks from all threats and hazards; and

(c) Participating and collaborating in interagency efforts to advance statewide climate resilience activities under chapter 70A.05 RCW, including collaborating on the development of a statewide strategy and identifying opportunities to leverage funding to advance solutions that improve the resilience of communities, infrastructure, and ecosystems.

(2) For purposes of this section:

(a) “Resilience” means the ability to prepare, mitigate, plan for, withstand, recover from, and more successfully adapt to adverse events and changing conditions, and reorganize in an equitable manner that results in a new and better condition; and

(b) “Disaster resilience” means resilience within the critical infrastructure sectors of emergency services; communications; critical government facilities; transportation; critical manufacturing; commercial facilities; chemical manufacturing and distribution; water and wastewater treatment; and dams, excluding power generation.

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