Unfinished Business at FEMA: A National Preparedness Perspec

The nation's preparedness has come a long way in the past 20 years, but there is significant unfinished business. The challenge is to find ways to continuously improve, to sustain the effort over thelong haul, to better leverage federal resources to get majorinitiatives done, and to encourage states to build recovery plansthat will put them in charge of a large-scale recovery.

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