‘‘(ii) identify details to be included in 
agency extreme weather plans. 
‘‘(2) PRIORITY
INTERAGENCY
FEDERAL
AC-
TIONS.—The Interagency Council shall develop, rec-
ommend, coordinate, and track implementation of 
priority interagency Federal Government actions re-
lated to extreme weather resiliency, preparedness, 
and risk management. 
‘‘(3) SUPPORT REGIONAL, STATE, LOCAL, AND 
TRIBAL
ACTIONS.—The Interagency Council shall 
support regional, State, local, and tribal action to 
assess extreme weather-related vulnerabilities and 
cost effectively increase extreme weather resiliency, 
preparedness, and risk management of communities, 
critical economic sectors, natural and built infra-
structure, and natural resources, including by— 
‘‘(A) conducting inventories under section 
9921; 
‘‘(B) convening meetings under section 
9922; and 
‘‘(C) providing guidance to agencies to 
produce tools and products that enhance ex-
treme weather resiliency planning and actions, 
including guidance on how to prioritize funding 
in order to produce such tools and products. 
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‘‘(4) METEOROLOGICAL AND EXTREME WEATH-
ER SCIENCE.—The Interagency Council shall facili-
tate the integration of meteorological and extreme 
weather science in the policies and planning of agen-
cies and the private sector, including by— 
‘‘(A) promoting the development of innova-
tive, actionable, and accessible Federal extreme 
weather resiliency, preparedness, and risk man-
agement-related information, data, tools, and 
examples of successful actions at appropriate 
scales for decisionmakers; and 
‘‘(B) providing such information, data, 
tools, and examples to the United States Global 
Change Research Program to include on the 
Internet Web site established and maintained 
pursuant to section 9911. 
‘‘(5) 
HIGH-RISK
REPORT
RECOMMENDA-
TIONS.—The Interagency Council shall assess the 
specific recommendations relating to extreme weath-
er in all relevant provisions of the Government Ac-
countability Office’s High-Risk Series, identify the 
feasibility of revising Federal programs to implement 
such recommendations, and develop a plan to ad-
dress such recommendations when feasible. 
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‘‘(6) 
FRAMEWORK
AND
PERFORMANCE 
METRICS.—The Interagency Council shall use exist-
ing and emerging science to develop— 
‘‘(A) a framework for evaluating the 
progress and success of extreme weather resil-
iency, preparedness, and risk management-re-
lated efforts that is complementary to any na-
tional indicator system developed as part of the 
National Climate Assessment; and 
‘‘(B) performance metrics that allow track-
ing of the actions taken and progress made to-
ward meeting the goals and implementing the 
priorities described in paragraph (1)(A). 
‘‘(7) RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CEQ.—The 
Interagency Council shall provide recommendations 
to the Council on Environmental Quality on how 
to— 
‘‘(A) update agency extreme weather plans; 
and 
‘‘(B) remove barriers to State and local ex-
treme weather resiliency, preparedness, and risk 
management, in agency regulations, guidance, 
and policies. 
‘‘(8) PUBLIC
INPUT
AND
COMMENT.—The 
Interagency Council shall solicit and incorporate 
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public input and comment as appropriate into the 
decisions of the Interagency Council. 
‘‘(9) INVENTORY AND MEETINGS.—The Inter-
agency Council shall conduct inventories under sec-
tion 9921 and convene meetings under section 9922. 
‘‘(10) DEFINITION OF EXTREME WEATHER.— 
The Interagency Council shall determine what other 
weather events (in addition to those described in sec-
tion 9931(3)) qualify as extreme weather for pur-
poses of this chapter. 
‘‘(11) OTHER DUTIES.—The Interagency Coun-
cil shall carry out any other duties the co-chair-
persons of the Interagency Council determine appro-
priate. 
‘‘(12) INTERAGENCY COUNCIL WEB SITE.—The 
Interagency Council shall establish and maintain an 
Internet Web site for tracking implementation of 
agency extreme weather plans, Government-wide 
goals and priorities described in paragraph (1)(A), 
and recommendations relating to extreme weather in 
all relevant provisions of the Government Account-
ability Office’s High-Risk Series, and shall make 
such High-Risk Series and the reports submitted 
under paragraph (13) available on such Web site, as 
the Council determines appropriate. 
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‘‘(13) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than one 
year after the date of enactment of this chapter, and 
annually thereafter, the Interagency Council shall 
submit to Congress, and make available to the 
United States Global Change Research Program for 
inclusion in any interim report that supports the 
National Climate Assessment, and in the National 
Climate Assessment, a report that— 
‘‘(A) describes how the goals and priorities 
described in paragraph (1)(A) are being met 
and implemented using— 
‘‘(i) the performance metrics devel-
oped under paragraph (6)(B); and 
‘‘(ii) information on— 
‘‘(I) agency expenditures, broken 
down by program activity level if prac-
ticable, that are directly related to ex-
treme weather resiliency, prepared-
ness, and risk management, including 
extreme weather resiliency, prepared-
ness, and risk management of Federal 
facilities; and 
‘‘(II) the effectiveness of such ex-
penditures, along with associated fi-
nancial impacts and community, in-
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