| The
Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction (SDR) is charged with facilitating
and promoting natural and technological disaster mitigation, preparedness,
response, and recovery. The SDR provides a senior-level interagency
forum to leverage expertise, inform policy-makers, promote technology
applications, coordinate activities, and promote excellence in research.
The SDR mission encompasses catastrophic and non-catastrophic hazards,
whether domestic or foreign, natural or technological in origin.
The SDR facilitates US Government and private/academic
activities to reduce vulnerability to natural and technological
hazards through:
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Coordinating national
research goals and activities for Federal research related to
natural and technological hazards and disasters; |
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Identifying and coordinating
opportunities for the US Government to coordinate and collaborate
with state, local, and foreign governments, international organizations
and private/academic/industry groups; |
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Facilitating the identification and
assessment of risks; |
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Providing information to the President
and Congress to summarize relevant resources and work within
SDR agencies; |
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Providing information to the Administration
and Congress in response to current disaster situations; |
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Serving as liaison to the Administration,
Congress, NGO's, and other policy development bodies; |
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Promoting disaster reduction practices; |
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Facilitating the exploitation of dual-use
systems and fusion of classified and unclassified data streams
and research for disaster reduction applications. |
Additional information about the SDR mission is available in the SDR
Charter and the SDR Annual Operating Plan FY2006. |
