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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 3261 

To require the Federal Government to produce a national adaptation and 

resilience strategy, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

NOVEMBER 8, 2023 

Mr. COONS (for himself, Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mr. CASSIDY, Mr. REED, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. PADILLA, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. KAINE, and Mr. BENNET) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

A BILL 

To require the Federal Government to produce a national 

adaptation and resilience strategy, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Coordination 

5 on Adaptation and Resilience for Security Act of 2023’’. 

6 SEC. 2. NATIONAL ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCE STRAT7 EGY. 

8 (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 


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1 (1) ADAPTATION.—The term ‘‘adaptation’’ 

2 means an adjustment in a natural or human system 

3 in response to a new or changing environmental con4 dition, including such an adjustment associated with 

5 climate change, that exploits beneficial opportunities 

6 or moderates negative effects. 

7 (2) CLIMATE CHANGE.—The term ‘‘climate 

8 change’’ means changes in average atmospheric and 

9 oceanic conditions that persist over multiple decades 

10 or longer and are natural or anthropogenic in origin, 

11 including— 

12 (A) increases and decreases in tempera13 ture; 

14 (B) shifts in precipitation; 

15 (C) shifts in ecoregion or biome geography 

16 and phenology, as applicable; 

17 (D) changing risk from certain types of 

18 rapid-onset climate hazards and slow-onset cli19 mate hazards; and 

20 (E) changes to other features of the cli21 mate system. 

22 (3) COUNCIL.—The term ‘‘Council’’ means the 

23 Partners Council on Adaptation and Resilience es24 tablished under subsection (c)(1). 


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1 (4) FEDERAL AGENCY.—The term ‘‘Federal 

2 agency’’ has the meaning given the term ‘‘Executive 

3 agency’’ in section 105 of title 5, United States 

4 Code. 

5 (5) FREELY ASSOCIATED STATE.—The term 

6 ‘‘Freely Associated State’’ means— 

7 (A) the Federated States of Micronesia; 

8 (B) the Republic of the Marshall Islands; 

9 and 

10 (C) the Republic of Palau. 

11 (6) IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.—The term ‘‘Im12 plementation Plan’’ means the Implementation Plan 

13 jointly developed by the Chief Resilience Officer and 

14 the working groups under subsection (d)(2). 

15 (7) INDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘‘Indian Tribe’’ 

16 has the meaning given the term in section 4 of the 

17 Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance 

18 Act (25 U.S.C. 5304). 

19 (8) NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT.—The 

20 term ‘‘National Climate Assessment’’ means the as21 sessment delivered to Congress and the President 

22 pursuant to section 106 of the Global Change Re23 search Act of 1990 (15 U.S.C. 2936). 

24 (9) REPRESENTED AGENCY.—The term ‘‘rep25 resented agency’’ means each Federal agency from 


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1 which the Chief Resilience Officer appoints a mem2 ber to a working group. 

3 (10) RESILIENCE.—The term ‘‘resilience’’ has 

4 the meaning given the term ‘‘climate resilience’’ in 

5 section 101 of title 10, United States Code. 

6 (11) SLOW-ONSET CLIMATE HAZARD.— 

7 (A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘slow-onset 

8 climate hazard’’ means an environmental haz9 ard driven or exacerbated by climate change 

10 that evolves gradually through time due to in11 cremental change or because of an increasing 

12 frequency or intensity of recurring climate im13 pacts. 

14 (B) INCLUSIONS.—The term ‘‘slow-onset 

15 climate hazard’’ includes— 

16 (i) sea level rise; 

17 (ii) desertification; 

18 (iii) biodiversity loss or the alteration 

19 of or shift in habitat range of individual 

20 species or entire biomes; 

21 (iv) increasing temperatures; 

22 (v) ocean acidification; 

23 (vi) saltwater intrusion; 

24 (vii) soil salinization; 

25 (viii) drought and water scarcity; 


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1 (ix) reduced snow pack; 

2 (x) sea ice retreat; 

3 (xi) glacial ice retreat; 

4 (xii) permafrost thaw; and 

5 (xiii) coastal and river bank erosion. 

6 (12) STRATEGY.—The term ‘‘Strategy’’ means 

7 the National Adaptation and Resilience Strategy re8 quired to be developed jointly by the Chief Resilience 

9 Officer and the working groups under subsection 

10 (d)(1). 

11 (13) TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.—The term 

12 ‘‘territorial government’’ means the government of a 

13 territory (as defined in section 602(g) of the Social 

14 Security Act (42 U.S.C. 802(g))). 

15 (14) WORKING GROUP.—The term ‘‘working 

16 group’’ means a working group established under 

17 subsection (b)(2)(B). 

18 (b) CHIEF RESILIENCE OFFICER AND NATIONAL AD19 APTATION AND RESILIENCE WORKING GROUPS.— 

20 (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days 

21 after the date of enactment of this Act, the Presi22 dent shall appoint a Chief Resilience Officer of the 

23 United States to serve in the Executive Office of the 

24 President. 


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1 (2) DUTIES.—The Chief Resilience Officer 

2 shall— 

3 (A) serve the President by directing a 

4 whole-of-government effort to build resilience to 

5 environmental vulnerabilities in the United 

6 States (as described in the National Climate 

7 Assessment or other relevant analyses identified 

8 by the Chief Resilience Officer) in collaboration 

9 with existing Federal initiatives and interagency 

10 adaptation efforts; 

11 (B) establish any necessary interagency 

12 working groups to facilitate coordination with 

13 respect to resilience and adaptation and the de14 velopment of the Strategy; and 

15 (C) at the end of a presidential administra16 tion, delegate the duties of the Chief Resilience 

17 Officer to the Executive Secretary of the Work18 ing Groups designated under paragraph (5)(A) 

19 until a new Chief Resilience Officer is ap20 pointed. 

21 (3) COMPENSATION.—The Chief Resilience Of22 ficer shall be paid at the rate of basic pay for level 

23 III of the Executive Schedule under section 5314 of 

24 title 5, United States Code. 


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1 (4) NECESSARY ASSISTANCE.—To carry out the 

2 development of the Strategy and efforts of working 

3 groups, each represented agency shall furnish nec4 essary assistance to that working group, such as— 

5 (A) a detail of employees to the working 

6 group to perform such functions as the Chief 

7 Resilience Officer may assign, including support 

8 staff for the Executive Secretary designated 

9 under paragraph (5)(A); and 

10 (B) on request of the Chief Resilience Offi11 cer, undertaking special studies for the working 

12 group as may be appropriate to carry out the 

13 functions of the working group. 

14 (5) EXECUTIVE SECRETARY.— 

15 (A) IN GENERAL.—The Chief Resilience 

16 Officer shall designate a permanent employee of 

17 a represented agency to serve as Executive Sec18 retary of the Working Groups. 

19 (B) EMPLOYMENT.—The employee des20 ignated as Executive Secretary under subpara21 graph (A) shall remain an employee of the 

22 agency, department, or program from which the 

23 employee was appointed. 

24 (c) PARTNERS COUNCIL ON ADAPTATION AND RESIL25 IENCE.— 


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1 (1) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established a 

2 council, to be known as the ‘‘Partners Council on 

3 Adaptation and Resilience’’. 

4 (2) MISSION AND FUNCTION.—The Council 

5 shall work to improve the adaptation and resilience 

6 operations of the Federal Government by providing 

7 recommendations through the Chief Resilience Offi8 cer, including those recommendations contained in 

9 the report required under paragraph (3), that iden10 tify how the Federal Government can better support 

11 non-Federal partners with equitable resources, tech12 nical assistance, improved policies, and other assist13 ance to help communities build resilience to chang14 ing environmental conditions. 

15 (3) REPORT.—Not later than 16 months after 

16 the date of enactment of this Act, and every 3 years 

17 thereafter, the Council, acting through the Chief Re18 silience Officer, shall submit to the President a re19 port that includes— 

20 (A) an analysis of the deficiencies or gaps 

21 in the resilience operations of the Federal Gov22 ernment that reduce or fail to increase the ca23 pacity of non-Federal partners to adapt to 

24 changing environmental conditions; 


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1 (B) an identification of the resources, in2 cluding Federal funding, necessary for non-Fed3 eral partners to adequately adapt to changing 

4 environmental conditions; and 

5 (C) recommendations with respect to how 

6 the Federal Government could better support 

7 efforts by non-Federal partners to expeditiously 

8 address vulnerabilities associated with climate 

9 change and build resilience. 

10 (4) CHAIR AND VICE-CHAIR.—The Chief Resil11 ience Officer shall— 

12 (A) serve as chairperson of the Council; 

13 and 

14 (B) appoint a vice-chairperson from among 

15 the members of the Council appointed pursuant 

16 to paragraph (5). 

17 (5) MEMBERSHIP.— 

18 (A) IN GENERAL.—In addition to the Chief 

19 Resilience Officer, the Council shall consist of 

20 not more than 23 members appointed by the 

21 Chief Resilience Officer. 

22 (B) APPOINTMENT.— 

23 (i) IN GENERAL.—The Chief Resil24 ience Officer shall appoint members of the 

25 Council with relevant experiences to inform 


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1 how the Federal Government can better 

2 support State governments, local govern3 ments, territorial governments, the govern4 ments of Indian Tribes, the governments 

5 of Freely Associated States, nonprofit or6 ganizations, or private sector entities to 

7 build resilience to changing environmental 

8 conditions. 

9 (ii) NON-FEDERAL PARTNER MEM10 BERS.—The Chief Resilience Officer shall 

11 appoint 20 non-Federal partner members 

12 of the Council as follows: 

13 (I) 12 members who are employ14 ees of State governments, local gov15 ernments, territorial governments, the 

16 governments of Indian Tribes, or the 

17 governments of Freely Associated 

18 States, of which— 

19 (aa) not fewer than 2 shall 

20 be employees of a State govern21 ment; 

22 (bb) not fewer than 2 shall 

23 be employees of a unit of local 

24 government; 


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1 (cc) not fewer than 2 shall 

2 be employees of the government 

3 of an Indian Tribe; and 

4 (dd) not fewer than 2 shall 

5 be employees of a territorial gov6 ernment or the government of a 

7 Freely Associated State; and 

8 (II) 8 members who represent 

9 nongovernmental organizations and 

10 the private sector, of which— 

11 (aa) 3 shall represent non12 governmental organizations; 

13 (bb) 3 shall represent the 

14 private sector; and 

15 (cc) 2 shall represent aca16 demic institutions. 

17 (iii) REPRESENTED AGENCY MEM18 BERS.—The Chief Resilience Officer may, 

19 with the consent of those representatives, 

20 appoint not more than 3 representatives of 

21 represented agencies to the Council that 

22 the Chief Resilience Officer determines 

23 would promote dialogue useful for imple24 mentation of the duties of the Council 


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1 while keeping the size of the Council man2 ageable. 

3 (iv) SELECTION.—To the maximum 

4 extent practicable, the Chief Resilience Of5 ficer shall seek to select members of the 

6 Council who— 

7 (I) possess first-hand, lived expe8 rience of environmental vulnerability 

9 in the United States, including direct 

10 experience working with, or as mem11 bers of, communities that are highly 

12 vulnerable to changing environmental 

13 conditions; and 

14 (II) represent a diversity of— 

15 (aa) perspectives; 

16 (bb) demographics; 

17 (cc) geographies; 

18 (dd) political affiliations; 

19 and 

20 (ee) institution sizes, includ21 ing representatives of both small 

22 and large units of government 

23 and businesses. 


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1 (v) TERM.—Members appointed to the 

2 Council shall serve a single term of not 

3 more than 3 years, except that— 

4 (I) of the initial members ap5 pointed to the Council, the Chief Re6 silience Officer shall appoint— 

(aa) 1 7 ⁄2 of the members to 

8 serve for a term of 18 months; 

9 and 

(bb) 1 10 ⁄2 of the members to 

11 serve a term of 3 years; and 

12 (II) the Chief Resilience Officer 

13 may extend the term of any member 

14 of the Council by a period of not more 

15 than 1 year on a one-time basis, if the 

16 Chief Resilience Officer determines it 

17 necessary to support the work of the 

18 Council. 

19 (vi) VACANCIES.— 

20 (I) IN GENERAL.—A vacancy in 

21 the Council shall be filled in the same 

22 manner in which the original selection 

23 was made. 

24 (II) APPOINTMENT OF NEW MEM25 BERS.—After the expiration of the 


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1 term for which a member of the 

2 Council is appointed, the member may 

3 continue to serve until a successor is 

4 appointed. 

5 (6) APPLICABILITY OF FACA.—Section 1013 of 

6 title 5, United States Code, shall not apply to the 

7 Council. 

8 (d) NATIONAL ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCE

9 STRATEGY.— 

10 (1) STRATEGY.— 

11 (A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years 

12 after the date of enactment of this Act, the 

13 Chief Resilience Officer shall submit to the 

14 President and Congress a National Adaptation 

15 and Resilience Strategy. 

16 (B) UPDATES.—Not later than the date 

17 that is 3 years after the date on which the 

18 Chief Resilience Officer submits the Strategy to 

19 the President and Congress under subpara20 graph (A), and every 3 years thereafter, the 

21 Chief Resilience Officer shall submit an up22 dated version of the Strategy to the President 

23 and Congress to account for— 

24 (i) evolving science related to climate 

25 change, resilience, and adaptation; 


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1 (ii) relevant changes in Federal Gov2 ernment structure, congressional authori3 ties, or appropriations; and 

4 (iii) any other necessary improve5 ments or changes identified by the Chief 

6 Resilience Officer. 

7 (C) PURPOSE AND SCOPE.—The Strategy 

8 shall describe strategies for the Federal Govern9 ment, in partnership with non-Federal partners, 

10 to address the vulnerabilities of the United 

11 States described in the National Climate As12 sessment or other relevant analyses identified 

13 by the Chief Resilience Officer to ensure that— 

14 (i) the United States has an over15 arching strategic vision to respond to cli16 mate change that— 

17 (I) identifies national resilience 

18 goals and guides national adaptation 

19 efforts; 

20 (II) facilitates the incorporation 

21 of the resilience goals identified under 

22 subclause (I) into relevant national 

23 programs, operations, and strategies; 

24 (III) develops proactive, long25 term, scenario-based strategies to plan 


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1 for and respond to current and future 

2 disasters or environmental condition 

3 changes to human communities, nat4 ural resources and public land, and 

5 infrastructure and other physical as6 sets; 

7 (IV) emphasizes forward-thinking 

8 adaptation strategies, including 

9 predisaster mitigation, that seek to 

10 overcome repeated impacts to vulner11 able systems and communities; 

12 (V) prioritizes resilience efforts 

13 to support the most vulnerable human 

14 communities and the most urgent na15 tional resilience challenges, as deter16 mined by the Chief Resilience Officer 

17 in consultation with the working 

18 groups; 

19 (VI) avoids unnecessary 

20 redundancies and inefficiencies in na21 tional adaptation and resilience plan22 ning and response; and 

23 (VII) recognizes the vulnerability 

24 of natural systems to changing envi25 ronmental conditions and underscores 


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1 the importance of promoting eco2 system resilience to preserve the in3 trinsic value of nature and support 

4 ecosystem services relied on by human 

5 beings; 

6 (ii) Federal investments in Federal 

7 and non-Federal infrastructure and assets 

8 promote resilience to the maximum extent 

9 practicable; and 

10 (iii) the adaptive capacity and resil11 ience of State governments, local govern12 ments, territorial governments, the govern13 ments of Indian Tribes, and governments 

14 of Freely Associated States are maximized 

15 to the maximum extent practicable. 

16 (D) COUNCIL RECOMMENDATIONS.—In de17 veloping the Strategy, the Chief Resilience Offi18 cer and working groups shall consider the rec19 ommendations of the Council. 

20 (E) INCLUSIONS.—The Strategy shall in21 clude the following: 

22 (i) Information with respect to direct 

23 Federal Government adaptation and resil24 ience response, including— 


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1 (I) information on better pre2 paring the United States for the ad3 verse impacts experienced or antici4 pated to be experienced as a result of 

5 near-term and long-term climate haz6 ards, including slow-onset hazards; 

7 (II) information on educating, 

8 engaging, or developing the skills of 

9 the workforce of the represented agen10 cies with respect to topics related to 

11 environmental vulnerability and resil12 ience to promote effective Federal re13 silience operations; and 

14 (III) an identification of opportu15 nities and appropriate circumstances 

16 for represented agencies to better use 

17 natural infrastructure as an adapta18 tion strategy. 

19 (ii) Information relating to the sup20 port of the adaptation of non-Federal part21 ners and resilience groups, including— 

22 (I) methods for represented agen23 cies to better collaborate and work di24 rectly with non-Federal partners to 

25 increase the resilience and adaptive 


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1 capacity of State governments, local 

2 governments, territorial governments, 

3 the governments of Indian Tribes, the 

4 governments of Freely Associated 

5 States, and other non-Federal part6 ners; 

7 (II) clarifying, simplifying, and 

8 harmonizing the planning require9 ments and application processes for 

10 State governments, local governments, 

11 territorial governments, the govern12 ments of Indian Tribes, and the gov13 ernments of Freely Associated States 

14 to access Federal funds for adaptation 

15 and resilience efforts across rep16 resented agencies; 

17 (III) identifying under-resourced 

18 communities and communities with 

19 low adaptive capacity and resilience 

20 and to directly support those commu21 nities in applying for Federal funds 

22 for adaptation and resilience efforts; 

23 and 

24 (IV) supporting the retreat or re25 location of human communities in 


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1 areas that are at increasing risk from 

2 climate change, in particular from 

3 slow-onset climate hazards, including 

4 strategies to better manage equitable 

5 property buyouts, managed retreat, or 

6 relocation options for communities in 

7 those areas. 

8 (iii) At the discretion of the Chief Re9 silience Officer, information relating to de10 veloping or improving resilience metrics 

11 and indicators to assist the Federal Gov12 ernment and non-Federal partners— 

13 (I) to the maximum extent prac14 ticable, to consistently measure the re15 silience of human communities, nat16 ural systems, and physical assets to 

17 climate change; 

18 (II) to set baselines and targets 

19 to measurably increase resilience over 

20 time and measure progress towards 

21 goals outlined in the Strategy; and 

22 (III) to better monitor and assess 

23 the effectiveness of various resilience24 building activities after implementa25 tion. 


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1 (iv) Information relating to funding 

2 adaptation, including— 

3 (I) strategies for— 

4 (aa) helping to prioritize 

5 Federal funding expenditures for 

6 adaptation and resilience in con7 sideration of the greatest 

8 vulnerabilities; and 

9 (bb) creating financial incen10 tives for adaptation and resil11 ience efforts; 

12 (II) a review of the cost-benefit 

13 analysis methodologies and discount 

14 rates used by represented agencies for 

15 all Federal investments, including a 

16 review of the implications of those 

17 methodologies and discount rates for 

18 adaptation and resilience; and 

19 (III) recommendations to im20 prove the methodologies described in 

21 subclause (II) to reflect— 

22 (aa) the added value of pre23 disaster mitigation, resilience 

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1 odologies over the lifetime of a 

2 project or unit of infrastructure; 

3 (bb) the benefits of natural 

4 infrastructure investments and 

5 nature-based solutions; 

6 (cc) the potential value of 

7 retreat and relocation as adapta8 tion solutions; and 

9 (dd) to what extent existing 

10 cost-benefit analysis methodolo11 gies lead to inequitable outcomes 

12 or outcomes that increase climate 

13 vulnerability. 

14 (v) Information relating to community 

15 considerations, including strategies for— 

16 (I) ensuring that the costs, bene17 fits, and risks resulting from resil18 ience efforts, including funding alloca19 tions, the methodologies for deter20 mining funding allocations, and exist21 ing and future policies, are equitably 

22 distributed among sectors of society, 

23 types of communities, and geog24 raphies; 


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1 (II) ensuring that federally sup2 ported resilience efforts are— 

3 (aa) designed in consultation 

4 with the communities that will be 

5 affected by those efforts; and 

6 (bb) centered on the needs 

7 of those communities; and 

8 (III) to the greatest extent prac9 ticable, integrating equity consider10 ations across all aspects of the Strat11 egy. 

12 (2) IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.—Concurrently 

13 with the Strategy and each update of the Strategy, 

14 the Chief Resilience Officer shall submit to the 

15 President and Congress an Implementation Plan 

16 that describes how represented agencies intend to 

17 carry out the Strategy, which shall include— 

18 (A) a description of the roles and respon19 sibilities of each represented agency in carrying 

20 out each element of the Strategy described in 

21 paragraph (1); 

22 (B) a plan to enter into such interagency 

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1 tween and among the Federal Government and 

2 non-Federal partners as may be necessary to 

3 facilitate a unified national plan to build resil4 ience; 

5 (C) the use of any relevant metrics and in6 dicators described in paragraph (1)(E)(iii); and 

7 (D) recommendations on leveraging or de8 veloping a national web-based approached to 

9 share resilience, adaptation, pre-disaster mitiga10 tion best practices, experiences, projects, tech11 nologies, and approaches. 

12 (3) NATIONAL ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCE

13 OPERATIONS.—The Chief Resilience Officer shall in14 clude in the Strategy— 

15 (A) a summary of the existing resilience 

16 operations of each represented agency that in17 cludes— 

18 (i) the roles and responsibilities of 

19 each represented agency in building na20 tional resilience to the vulnerabilities de21 scribed in the National Climate Assess22 ment or other analyses relevant to each 

23 represented agency; 

24 (ii) the major findings and conclusions 

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1 ability assessments prepared by each rep2 resented agency; 

3 (iii) the mechanisms by which each 

4 represented agency supports the resilience 

5 efforts of non-Federal partners, such as by 

6 providing funding, resources, and technical 

7 assistance; and 

8 (iv) an assessment of how each rep9 resented agency is working to ensure equi10 table adaptation outcomes; and 

11 (B) a cross-agency analysis of the resil12 ience operations identified under subparagraph 

13 (A) that— 

14 (i) identifies— 

15 (I) the challenges, barriers, or 

16 disincentives for the Federal Govern17 ment to build resilience in the United 

18 States; 

19 (II) the inconsistencies in goals, 

20 priorities, or strategies underlying re21 silience operations and policy across 

22 represented agencies that may inhibit 

23 effective interagency coordination to 

24 support national resilience, includ25 ing— 


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1 (aa) the areas of necessary 

2 differences in those goals, prior3 ities, or strategies; and 

4 (bb) the justifications for 

5 those inconsistencies; 

6 (III) areas of overlap or redun7 dant use of resources between or 

8 among represented agencies, including 

9 recommendations to eliminate any un10 necessary or unintentional redun11 dancy; 

12 (IV) gaps or deficiencies in resil13 ience operations and policy that need 

14 to be addressed in the context of the 

15 Strategy; 

16 (V) opportunities for greater col17 laboration between or among rep18 resented agencies to improve Federal 

19 Government resilience operations and 

20 policy; and 

21 (VI) opportunities for greater 

22 collaboration between the Federal 

23 Government and non-Federal partners 

24 to build local-level adaptive capacity 

25 and resilience; and 


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1 (ii) a review and summary of all avail2 able Federal funding from represented 

3 agencies that is specifically allocated for 

4 adaptation activities to be undertaken by 

5 non-Federal partners, including— 

6 (I) a summary of Federal fund7 ing available in appropriations ac8 counts and subaccounts; 

9 (II) disparities between the sup10 ply and demand for adaptation fund11 ing available to non-Federal partners; 

12 and 

13 (III) existing mechanisms to en14 sure Federal funding allocations are 

15 being directed to communities with 

16 the greatest level of vulnerability. 

17 (4) ASSESSMENT.—Not later than 2 years after 

18 the completion of each Strategy and each Implemen19 tation Plan, the Comptroller General of the United 

20 States shall submit to the President and Congress a 

21 report that assesses— 

22 (A) the extent to which the Strategy and 

23 Implementation Plan have been carried out by 

24 the Federal Government, which shall be judged, 

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1 cators developed to track progress in increasing 

2 resilience under paragraph (1)(E)(iii); 

3 (B) the effectiveness of the actions taken 

4 under the Strategy and Implementation Plan 

5 and the resulting outcomes of those actions in 

6 building national adaptation and resilience 

7 planning and response; and 

8 (C) the progress made towards the devel9 opment of an effective whole-of-government ef10 fort to build resilience to the vulnerabilities de11 scribed in the National Climate Assessment or 

12 other relevant analyses identified by the Chief 

13 Resilience Officer, including recommendations 

14 for additional steps necessary to reach this goal. 

15 (5) PUBLIC COMMENT.—The Chief Resilience 

16 Officer shall— 

17 (A) publish draft and final versions of the 

18 Strategy and Implementation Plan, and each 

19 update to the Strategy and Implementation 

20 Plan; and 

21 (B) through publication in the Federal 

22 Register, solicit comments from the public on 

23 the draft versions of the documents published 

24 under subparagraph (A) for a period of 60 

25 days, which the Chief Resilience Officer shall 


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1 consider before submitting final versions of the 

2 Strategy and Implementation Plan, and updates 

3 to the Strategy and Implementation Plan, to 

4 the President and Congress. 

5 (e) ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCE CLEARING6 HOUSE.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enact7 ment of this Act, the Chief Resilience Officer shall estab8 lish an adaptation and resilience clearinghouse that— 

9 (1) increases the accessibility and utility of ad10 aptation and resilience data and information pro11 duced, published, or hosted by the Federal Govern12 ment; and 

13 (2) increases technical assistance to non-Fed14 eral partners on adaptation and resilience planning 

15 and response, including strategies to better collabo16 rate across the represented agencies and work with 

17 non-Federal partners to— 

18 (A) provide locally relevant resilience and 

19 adaptation information and, where practicable 

20 and useful, downscaled climate projections that 

21 are necessary to support local-level adaptation 

22 efforts; 

23 (B) establish improved methods of commu24 nicating resilience and adaptation risk and 

25 other information; 


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1 (C) better educate non-Federal partners 

2 about the available resources; 

3 (D) streamline information about Federal 

4 adaptation and resilience resources in a single 

5 centralized location if determined necessary by 

6 the Chief Resilience Officer; 

7 (E) assist non-Federal partners in select8 ing and using appropriate information or re9 lated tools; 

10 (F) work with non-Federal partners to ac11 cess existing Federal grant programs related to 

12 resilience and adaptation; and 

13 (G) standardize procedures to synthesize, 

14 align, and update adaptation and resilience in15 formation produced, published, or hosted by the 

16 Federal Government to create standardized na17 tional, regional, and, where applicable, local cli18 mate information for adaptation planning. 

19 (f) SUNSET.—This section shall cease to be effective 

20 on the date that is the earlier of— 

21 (1) the date on which the Comptroller General 

22 of the United States submits to the President and 

23 Congress the third assessment report under sub24 section (d)(4); and 


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1 (2) September 30, 2033. 

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