Federal Emergence Management Agency (FEMA)

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Federal Emergency Management Agency Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Federal Emergence Management Agency The Presidential Reorganization Plan under the Department of Homeland and Housing in 1979 initiated FEMA in 1978. FEMA’s work is to take action to a disaster that overcomes the state and the local authorities. Offer low interest rate loans to people with the assistance of the Small Business Administration. This loan in turn helps them to open businesses, which can help them repay the loans and improve their standards of living. Reduce the dependency rate whereby the young, elderly or the poor expect much from their well up relatives. The funds help the elderly to reduce stress by thinking a lot because they are living alone…show more content…
The ad-hoc legislation between 1803 and 1930 was passed severally for compensation after a disaster. For example, after the Great Wall fire incident in 1835, the New York City merchants received waive on tariff duties. After Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the congress passed legislation to compensate those injured at John T. Ford’s theatre. In 1932, President Herbert Hoover commissioned the Reconstruction Finance Corporation after the Great Depression in 1929. The RFC work was to lend money to institutions and banks for stimulation of economic activities. RFC was responsible for releasing federal dollars during disasters thus it is considered as the first federal disaster response agency. In 1934, Public Roads Bureau was allowed to finance reconstruction of roads and highways after a disaster. The U.S Army Corps of Engineers was given authority over irrigation projects and flood control by the Flood Control Act…show more content…
Later, critics argued that FEMA should be removed from the Department of Homeland Security because of the failed response to Hurricane Katrina. Today FEMA is a major agency of the Homeland Security Department. FEMA joined 22 offices, programs and other federal agencies to form the Department of Homeland Security headed by Secretary Tom Ridge. Tom Ridge brought an organized approach to national security from disasters and emergencies- both manmade and natural. FEMA controls the National Flood Insurance Program while the previous programs FEMA administered have been shifted under direct control of DHS. FEMA heads the National Continuity Programs Directorate that was known as the Office of National Security Coordination (Erickson, 2012). It functioned as an exercising, developing, ensuring continuity of government plans, wide validating agency and maintaining continuity readiness of the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center. In 2007, FEMA started to Administer Centre for Domestic
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