The committee will come to order. Wildfires are an increasing threat to our country. They have burned more land and put more communities in danger. Last year alone, wildfires affected americans from hawaii to the great smoky mountains. This year, it is likely to get worse. As we sit here today, communities in texas just finished fighting the largest wildfire in the history of that state. It burned almost 1. 4 million acres of land, taking lives, damaging houses, devastating agriculture, displacing families, leaving property across the Northern Edge of the state in ruin. The last wildfire in maui was absolutely catastrophic. It took the lives of over 100 people and shouter countless communities. It was the deadliest wildfire in our country in over a century. The council of native american advancement and the mayor of the county has submitted testimony regarding the ongoing testimony from malley and we offer them into the hearing record with no objection. These are just a few of the exam
The committee will come to order. Wildfires are an increasing threat to our country. They have burned more land and put more communities in danger. Last year alone, wildfires affected americans from hawaii to the great smoky mountains. This year, it is likely to get worse. As we sit here today, communities in texas just finished fighting the largest wildfire in the history of that state. It burned almost 1. 4 million acres of land, taking lives, damaging houses, devastating agriculture, displacing families, leaving property across the Northern Edge of the state in ruin. The last wildfire in maui was absolutely catastrophic. It took the lives of over 100 people and shouter countless communities. It was the deadliest wildfire in our country in over a century. The council of native american advancement and the mayor of the county has submitted testimony regarding the ongoing testimony from malley and we offer them into the hearing record with no objection. These are just a few of the exam
The committee will come to order. Wildfires are an increasing threat to our country. They have burned more land and put more communities in danger. Last year alone, wildfires affected americans from hawaii to the great smoky mountains. This year, it is likely to get worse. As we sit here today, communities in texas just finished fighting the largest wildfire in the history of that state. It burned almost 1. 4 million acres of land, taking lives, damaging houses, devastating agriculture, displacing families, leaving property across the Northern Edge of the state in ruin. The last wildfire in maui was absolutely catastrophic. It took the lives of over 100 people and shouter countless communities. It was the deadliest wildfire in our country in over a century. The council of native american advancement and the mayor of the county has submitted testimony regarding the ongoing testimony from malley and we offer them into the hearing record with no objection. These are just a few of the exam
Approvement act . And what other benefits are being experienced . Um as far as benefits of the Sandy Recovery reimprovement act is a very important tool and the other lesson that we have learned from is the events of katrina is that there are certain types of projects that are technically difficult that exceed the average capacity for people to manage and you need expert so we engage very early. And identify where the projects will be whether they are hospitals or other large public infrastructures. We brought in a lot of experts. It wasnt until you passed a Sandy Recovery improvement act that we had the resolution had we been using an old program and using actual costs, there would have been more uncertainty for the application cant on what they could and could not do. It would have been more overhead in making those decisions and they would not have had the ability to get what they were going to get from us and move forward. As it is we have obligated the majority of those funds. The
Off the coast of the northwest us the earthquake risk which is a very large risk command i think that we can show where we are going and tell you what we think is the path to get us there and then that will give you an opportunity to look at additional tools that you could give us. The stafford act was often times a constraint. In the past year we have responded to haiti which is traditionally the role of usaid. We were asked to support usaid command we did. We were asked to support unaccompanied children in detention facilities so we supported that. We were asked to support the ebola response. Many of these things may not be in the papers but our capabilities command you give us tools. The stafford the stafford act is limited to often times only those Natural Hazards with limited flexibility. I think the delegate brings up an important. What is the role of the Disaster Relief fund and the consequence world and if it is not in rebuilding in the Emergency Response cost and the ability t