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Union Calendar No. 866 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4177 
[Report No. 115–1028, Part I] 
To enhance the Federal Government’s planning and preparation for extreme 
weather and the Federal Government’s dissemination of best practices 
to respond to extreme weather, thereby increasing resilience, improving 
regional coordination, and mitigating the financial risk to the Federal 
Government from such extreme weather, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 31, 2017 
Mr. CARTWRIGHT (for himself, Mr. LANCE, Mr. CURBELO of Florida, Mr. 
DEUTCH, Mr. DENT, Mr. FARENTHOLD, Ms. NORTON, Mr. CRIST, Mr. 
PETERS, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. GARAMENDI, Mr. CONNOLLY, 
Mr. CUMMINGS, and Mr. LOWENTHAL) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastruc-
ture, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Re-
form, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each 
case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
the committee concerned 
NOVEMBER 14, 2018 
Reported from the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
NOVEMBER 14, 2018 
Referral to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform extended for 
a period ending not later than December 28, 2018 
DECEMBER 28, 2018 
Additional sponsors: Mr. RASKIN, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. FASO, Mrs. CAROLYN B. 
MALONEY of New York, Mr. MEADOWS, Mr. WELCH, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. 
WEBSTER of Florida, Miss GONZA´LEZ-COLO´N of Puerto Rico, Ms. 
PLASKETT, and Mr. SANFORD 
DECEMBER 28, 2018 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform discharged; committed to 
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the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and or-
dered to be printed 
A BILL 
To enhance the Federal Government’s planning and prepara-
tion for extreme weather and the Federal Government’s 
dissemination of best practices to respond to extreme 
weather, thereby increasing resilience, improving regional 
coordination, and mitigating the financial risk to the 
Federal Government from such extreme weather, and 
for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Preparedness and Risk Management for Extreme Weath-
er Patterns Assuring Resilience and Effectiveness Act of 
2017’’ or the ‘‘PREPARE Act of 2017’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Interagency Council on Extreme Weather Resilience, Preparedness, and 
Risk Identification and Management. 
Sec. 3. Agency planning for extreme weather-related risks. 
Sec. 4. Website. 
Sec. 5. Requesting adequate funding. 
Sec. 6. Inventory. 
Sec. 7. Meetings. 
Sec. 8. Progress updates. 
Sec. 9. Definitions. 
Sec. 10. Requirement to include agency extreme weather plan in agency per-
formance plan. 
Sec. 11. Sunset and repeal. 
SEC. 2. INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON EXTREME WEATHER 
RESILIENCE, 
PREPAREDNESS, 
AND 
RISK 
IDENTIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby established a 
council to be known as the ‘‘Interagency Council on Ex-
treme Weather Resilience, Preparedness, and Risk Identi-
fication and Management’’. 
(b) MEMBERSHIP.—The Interagency Council shall be 
composed of the following: 
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(1) Senior officials, to be appointed by the 
President, including representation from the fol-
lowing: 
(A) The Council on Environmental Qual-
ity. 
(B) The Office of Science and Technology 
Policy. 
(C) The National Security Council. 
(D) The Office of Management and Budg-
et. 
(E) The Department of Transportation. 
(F) The Environmental Protection Agency. 
(G) The National Oceanic and Atmos-
pheric Administration. 
(H) The Department of Energy. 
(I) The Department of Homeland Security. 
(J) The Federal Emergency Management 
Agency. 
(K) The Department of Defense. 
(L) The National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration. 
(M) The Department of Agriculture. 
(N) The Department of Housing and 
Urban Development. 
(O) The Department of Justice. 
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(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Interagency Council 
shall be co-chaired by the Deputy Secretary of the 
Department of Homeland Security and the Deputy 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget. 
The President may appoint one or more additional 
members as co-chairs, as appropriate. 
(2) DUTIES.—The co-chairpersons shall— 
(A) oversee the Interagency Council’s re-
sponse to the Government Accountability Of-
fice’s recommendations under subsection (f)(5); 
(B) use the evaluation framework and per-
formance metrics developed pursuant to sub-
section (f)(6) to evaluate agency progress in 
meeting the goals and implementing the prior-
ities described in subsection (f)(1)(A); and 
(C) work to ensure that sufficient re-
sources are available for agencies to— 
(i) meet the goals and implement the 
priorities described in subsection (f)(1)(A); 
and 
(ii) implement the recommendations 
developed under subsection (f)(2). 
(d) ADMINISTRATION.—The co-chairpersons of the 
Interagency Council (or staff designed by the co-chair-
persons) shall provide administrative support and addi-
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tional resources, as appropriate, to the Interagency Coun-
cil to the extent permitted by law and within existing ap-
propriations. The Interagency Council co-chairpersons 
shall determine the amount of funding and personnel nec-
essary for the Interagency Council to carry out its duties 
and the amount of funding and personnel each agency rep-
resented on the Interagency Council should contribute in 
order for the Interagency Council to carry out such duties. 
Agencies shall, upon the request of the co-chairpersons of 
the Interagency Council, make available personnel, admin-
istrative support services, and information to the Inter-
agency Council. 
(e) STRUCTURE.— 
(1) 
STEERING
COMMITTEE.—The 
co-chair-
persons of the Interagency Council shall designate a 
subset of members of the Interagency Council to 
serve on a steering committee. Such steering com-
mittee shall assist the Interagency Council in deter-
mining its priorities and its strategic direction. 
(2) WORKING GROUPS.—The co-chairpersons of 
the Interagency Council and its steering committee 
may establish working groups as needed. 
(f) DUTIES OF THE INTERAGENCY COUNCIL.— 
(1) GOALS AND PRIORITIES.— 
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(A) IN GENERAL.—The Interagency Coun-
cil shall establish Governmentwide goals and 
priorities for extreme weather resilience, pre-
paredness, and risk identification and manage-
ment. In establishing such goals and priorities, 
the Interagency Council shall consider the Na-
tional Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution 
Contingency Plan, agency continuity of oper-
ations plans, the National Preparedness Goal, 
the National Preparedness Report, the National 
Global Change Research Plan, the Mitigation 
Framework Leadership Group’s National Miti-
gation Investment Strategy (if available), State 
and local mitigation plans, and all relevant pro-
visions of the Government Accountability Of-
fice’s High-Risk Series. 
(B) COORDINATION.—In executing the du-
ties pursuant to this subsection, the Inter-
agency Council shall coordinate with other 
groups in the Federal Government focused on 
extreme weather mitigation and recovery (in-
cluding the Mitigation Framework Leadership 
Group, the Recovery Support Functions Lead-
ers Group, and the Emergency Support Func-
tions Leaders Group), to avoid duplication 
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among Federal activities to the extent prac-
ticable. 
(C) INCORPORATION INTO AGENCY ACTIVI-
TIES.—In carrying out subparagraph (A), the 
Interagency Council shall, in order to ensure 
that information relating to extreme weather re-
silience, preparedness, and risk identification 
and management is incorporated into everyday 
agency activities— 
(i) work with agencies to assist such 
agencies in considering the goals and prior-
ities described in subparagraph (A) in 
agency strategic, programmatic, and budg-
et planning; 
(ii) identify details to be included in 
agency extreme weather plans; and 
(iii) work to identify and communicate 
localized extreme weather and natural haz-
ard risk to the extent possible using the 
best available information regarding risk, 
and encourage the development of thor-
ough, updated maps, models, and tools to 
measure and evaluate risk. 
(2) PRIORITY
INTERAGENCY
FEDERAL
AC-
TIONS.—The Interagency Council shall develop, rec-
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ommend, coordinate, and track implementation of 
priority interagency Federal Government actions re-
lated to extreme weather resilience, preparedness, 
and risk identification and management. 
(3) SUPPORT
REGIONAL, STATE, AND
LOCAL 
ACTIONS.—The Interagency Council shall support 
regional, State, and local action to assess extreme 
weather-related vulnerabilities and cost effectively in-
crease extreme weather resilience, preparedness, and 
risk identification and management of communities, 
critical economic sectors, natural and built infra-
structure, and natural resources, including by— 
(A) conducting inventories under section 6; 
(B) convening meetings under section 7; 
(C) providing guidance to agencies to 
produce tools and products that enhance ex-
treme weather resilience planning, risk knowl-
edge, and actions for use in all levels of govern-
ment, including guidance on how to prioritize 
funding in order to produce such tools and 
products; and 
(D) reviewing State and local mitigation 
plans. 
(4) METEOROLOGICAL AND EXTREME WEATHER 
SCIENCE.—The Interagency Council shall facilitate 
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the integration of meteorological and extreme weath-
er science, in addition to other scientific disciplines 
such as physical, natural, and social science that the 
Council determines to be appropriate, in the policies 
risk evaluation and communication, and planning of 
agencies and the private sector, including by— 
(A) promoting the development of innova-
tive, actionable, and accessible Federal extreme 
weather resilience, preparedness, and risk iden-
tification and management-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 agency or agencies 
designated under section 4 to include on the 
website established and maintained or des-
ignated pursuant to such section. 
(5) HIGH-RISK REPORT RECOMMENDATIONS.— 
The Interagency Council shall assess the specific 
recommendations relating to extreme weather in all 
relevant provisions of the Government Accountability 
Office’s High-Risk Series, identify the feasibility of 
revising Federal programs to implement such rec-
ommendations, and develop a plan to address such 
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recommendations when feasible that does not dupli-
cate the National Preparedness Goal. 
(6) 
FRAMEWORK
AND
PERFORMANCE 
METRICS.—The Interagency Council shall use exist-
ing and emerging science to develop or adopt— 
(A) a framework for evaluating the 
progress and success of extreme weather resil-
ience, preparedness, and risk identification and 
management-related efforts that is complemen-
tary to and not duplicative of any local or na-
tional indicator system developed as part of the 
National Preparedness Goal; 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
AND 
OMB.—The Interagency Council shall provide to the 
Council on Environmental Quality, the Office of 
Management and Budget, and the Department of 
Homeland Security recommendations on how agen-
cies should— 
(A) develop or update agency extreme 
weather plans; 
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(B) remove barriers to State and local ex-
treme weather resilience, preparedness, and risk 
identification and management, in agency regu-
lations, guidance, and policies; and 
(C) avoid duplication among Federal ac-
tivities to the extent practicable. 
(8) PUBLIC INPUT AND COMMENT.—The Inter-
agency Council shall solicit and incorporate 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 6 and convene meetings under section 7. 
(10) DEFINITION
OF
EXTREME
WEATHER.— 
The Interagency Council shall consider and may up-
date, not less frequently than every two years, in 
consultation with appropriate scientific bodies, the 
definition of ‘‘extreme weather’’ and what other 
weather events (in addition to those described in sec-
tion 9(3)) qualify as extreme weather for purposes 
of this Act. The definition of ‘‘extreme weather’’ 
shall be published and updated, as necessary, on the 
website of the Council and in the Federal Register. 
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(11) OTHER DUTIES.—The Interagency Council 
shall carry out any other duties the co-chairpersons 
of the Interagency Council determine appropriate. 
(12) PUBLIC INFORMATION.—The Interagency 
Council shall— 
(A) make information available online— 
(i) for tracking implementation of 
agency extreme weather plans and Govern-
mentwide goals and priorities described in 
paragraph (1)(A); 
(ii) on recommendations relating to 
extreme weather in all relevant provisions 
of the Government Accountability Office’s 
High-Risk Series; and 
(iii) on the results of the Council’s ef-
forts to identify nationwide and localized 
risks (including updated mapping efforts); 
and 
(B) make such High-Risk Series and the 
reports submitted under paragraph (13) avail-
able as the Council determines appropriate. 
(13) ANNUAL
REPORT.—Not later than one 
year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and 
annually thereafter (concurrently with the United 
States Global Change Research Program Annual Re-
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port and the National Preparedness Report), the 
Interagency Council shall submit to Congress, and 
make available to the United States Global Change 
Research Program and the Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency, 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 developed 
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 resilience, prepared-
ness, and risk identification and man-
agement, including extreme weather 
resilience, 
preparedness, 
and 
risk 
identification and management of 
Federal facilities; and 
(II) the effectiveness of such ex-
penditures, along with associated fi-
nancial impacts and community, in-
frastructure, and environmental bene-
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fits, to the extent such data are avail-
able; 
(B) provides recommendations to enhance 
the effectiveness of such implementation and 
sets benchmarks to meet; 
(C) describes the progress of the regional 
coordination efforts described in sections 6, 7, 
and 8; and 
(D) includes a summary of public com-
ments solicited under paragraph (8) and any 
action the Interagency Council took to respond 
to such comments. 
(g) CONSULTATION.—In carrying out paragraphs (2) 
through (12) of subsection (f), the Interagency Council 
shall consult with agencies, State and local governments, 
academic and research institutions, and the private and 
nonprofit sectors. 
(h) OMB GUIDANCE.—The Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget, taking into consideration the 
recommendations provided by the Interagency Council 
under subsection (f)(7), shall issue guidance to agencies 
on— 
(1) developing agency extreme weather plans, 
which shall incorporate existing agency reports, 
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where appropriate, to prevent duplication and reduce 
overlap; and 
(2) developing agency regulations, guidance, 
and policies to remove barriers to State and local ex-
treme weather resilience, preparedness, and risk 
identification and management. 
SEC. 3. AGENCY PLANNING FOR EXTREME WEATHER-RE-
LATED RISKS. 
(a) AGENCY EXTREME WEATHER RESILIENCE, PRE-
PAREDNESS, AND RISK IDENTIFICATION AND MANAGE-
MENT PLANS.— 
(1) AGENCY
SUBMISSION.—Not later than 1 
year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and 
every 2 years thereafter, the head of each agency, in 
coordination with the Director of the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency to avoid duplication with 
the National Planning Frameworks, shall submit to 
the Director of the Office of Management and Budg-
et and to the Interagency Council a comprehensive 
plan that integrates consideration of extreme weath-
er into such agency’s operations and overall mission 
objectives (hereinafter referred to as an ‘‘agency ex-
treme weather plan’’). 
(2) HEARING.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and every 2 years 
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thereafter, the Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget shall convene an interagency budget 
crosscut and policy hearing to review and integrate 
all the agency extreme weather plans and to ensure 
that such extreme weather plans and the activities of 
agencies align with the goals and priorities estab-
lished under section 2(f)(1)(A). 
(3) OMB SUBMISSION.—The Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget, upon receipt of 
all agency extreme weather plans in a given year, 
shall consolidate and submit to Congress such plans. 
(b) INCLUSIONS.—Each agency extreme weather plan 
shall include— 
(1) identification and assessment of extreme 
weather-related impacts on, and risks to— 
(A) the agency’s ability to accomplish its 
missions, operations, and programs over time 
periods to be designated by the Interagency 
Council; and 
(B) State and local entities; 
(2) identification and assessment of barriers 
posed by Federal programs the agency administers 
to State and local extreme weather resilience, pre-
paredness, and risk identification and management 
efforts; 
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(3) a description of programs, policies, and 
plans the agency has already put in place, as well as 
additional actions the agency will take, to manage 
extreme weather risks in the near term and build re-
silience in the short and long term; 
(4) a description of how the agency will con-
sider the need to improve extreme weather resilience, 
preparedness, and risk identification and manage-
ment, including the costs and benefits of such im-
provement, with respect to agency suppliers, supply 
chain, real property investments, and capital equip-
ment purchases, including by updating agency poli-
cies for leasing, building upgrades, relocation of ex-
isting facilities and equipment, and construction of 
new facilities; 
(5) a description of how the agency will support 
any ongoing or future public-private partnership to 
improve extreme weather resilience, preparedness, 
and risk identification and management, including 
the cost and benefits of technology and methodology 
improvements, hardening, or rapid restoration; 
(6) a description of how the agency will con-
tribute to coordinated interagency efforts to support 
extreme weather resilience, preparedness, and risk 
identification and management at all levels of gov-
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ernment, including collaborative work across agen-
cies’ regional offices and hubs, and through coordi-
nated development of information, data, and tools, 
consistent with sections 6, 7, and 8; and 
(7) any other details identified by the Inter-
agency Council under section 2(f)(1)(B)(ii). 
SEC. 4. WEBSITE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Interagency Council shall 
designate an agency or agencies to establish, maintain, or 
designate a website that provides timely, actionable, and 
accessible information, data, and tools on current and fu-
ture risks related to extreme weather, preparedness, resil-
ience, and risk identification and management, to support 
Federal, regional, State, local, private sector, and other 
decisionmakers. 
(b) INTERAGENCY
PROGRESS.—The website de-
scribed under subsection (a), shall identify interagency 
progress, and propose the next interagency steps, towards 
responding to threats posed by extreme weather. 
(c) BEST PRACTICES.—The website described under 
subsection (a) shall provide best practices and examples 
from Federal, regional, State, and local decisionmakers in 
the public and private sectors about how to use extreme 
weather-related information in planning and decision-
making. 
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(d) INTERAGENCY
COUNCIL
INFORMATION
AND 
TOOLS.—The website described under subsection (a) shall 
include the information, data, tools, and examples pro-
vided by the Interagency Council pursuant to section 
2(f)(4). 
(e) BEST AVAILABLE METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCE.— 
The website described under subsection (a) shall identify 
best available meteorological science relating to extreme 
weather resilience, preparedness, and risk identification 
and management. 
(f) PUBLIC
OUTREACH
AND
EDUCATION.—The 
Interagency Council shall designate one or more agencies 
to conduct outreach and educational activities to inform 
the public and regional, State, and local decisionmakers 
about the tools and information available on the website 
described under subsection (a). 
SEC. 5. PROVIDING ADEQUATE RESOURCES AND SUPPORT. 
The Director of the Office of Management and Budg-
et shall ensure that each agency provides adequate re-
sources to the Interagency Council, including administra-
tive services and personnel support, as appropriate— 
(1) for the website described under section 4; 
and 
(2) to otherwise carry out this Act. 
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SEC. 6. INVENTORY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and every 2 years there-
after, the Interagency Council, or a working group of such 
Interagency Council established by the co-chairpersons 
thereof, shall conduct and publish an inventory of all re-
gional offices, centers, and programs of agencies that are 
assisting with extreme weather resilience, preparedness, 
and risk identification and management efforts at the 
State or local level, including— 
(1) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-
ministration’s regional programs; 
(2) the Department of the Interior’s Fish and 
Wildlife Service Landscape Conservation Coopera-
tives; 
(3) the United States Geological Survey’s Cli-
mate Science Centers; 
(4) the Department of Agriculture’s Climate 
Hubs; 
(5) the regional offices of— 
(A) the Environmental Protection Agency; 
(B) the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency; 
(C) the Department of Transportation; 
and 
(D) the Forest Service; 
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(6) the division offices of the Army Corps of 
Engineers; and 
(7) such other offices, centers, and programs or 
other agency efforts as determined appropriate by 
the Interagency Council. 
(b) ASSISTANCE DESCRIBED.—An inventory con-
ducted and published under subsection (a) shall include 
a description of the assistance each agency office, center, 
or program is providing to assist with extreme weather 
resilience, preparedness, and risk identification and man-
agement efforts at the State or local level. 
SEC. 7. MEETINGS. 
Not later than 6 months after the publication of each 
inventory under section 6, the Interagency Council shall 
convene a meeting of representatives of the offices, cen-
ters, and programs included in such inventory and invite 
other local and regional stakeholders to participate and 
develop plans to coordinate the efforts of such offices, cen-
ters, and programs and facilitate efficient services to 
stakeholders. At such meetings, such representatives 
shall— 
(1) share information regarding their office, 
center, or program’s extreme weather resilience, pre-
paredness, and risk identification and management 
efforts; 
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(2) identify opportunities for collaboration and 
coordination of research agendas, extreme weather 
assessment activities, vulnerability assessments, data 
collection and analysis, and planning and imple-
menting extreme weather resilience, preparedness, 
and risk identification and management projects; 
(3) identify extreme weather resilience, pre-
paredness, and risk identification and management 
information needs, research gaps, and decision sup-
port needs that are not met by any of the offices, 
centers, or programs included in the inventory under 
section 6 and make available such identification for 
purposes of information to be submitted to the 
Interagency Council under section 7; 
(4) identify common and complementary goals 
for extreme weather resilience, preparedness, and 
risk identification and management within each re-
gion to be prioritized for the coming year and be-
yond; 
(5) identify barriers to regional extreme weath-
er resilience, preparedness, and risk identification 
and management planning and implementation that 
can be overcome or minimized through Federal ac-
tion and specific suggestions for improvement; 
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(6) evaluate progress and jointly develop a 
strategy for realizing extreme weather resilience, 
preparedness, and risk identification and manage-
ment-related goals, including clearly identified re-
sponsibilities by each collaborating regional office, 
center, or program; and 
(7) share experiences and best practices in 
stakeholder engagement and communication, deci-
sion support, and science-practice interactions that 
support the realization of identified extreme weather 
resilience, preparedness, and risk identification and 
management goals. 
SEC. 8. PROGRESS UPDATES. 
Not later than 90 days after each meeting under sec-
tion 7, each agency that participates in such meeting shall 
submit to the Interagency Council, and make available to 
the United States Global Change Research Program and 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency, information 
describing progress in regional coordination and collabora-
tion in aligning Federal resilience, preparedness, and risk 
identification and management efforts at the State and 
local level, and the benefits of such regional coordination 
and collaboration. 
SEC. 9. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
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(1) AGENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ has the 
meaning given the term ‘‘Executive agency’’ under 
section 105 of title 5, but does not include the Gov-
ernment Accountability Office. 
(2) AGENCY EXTREME WEATHER PLAN.—The 
term ‘‘agency extreme weather plan’’ means a plan 
required under section 3(a). 
(3) EXTREME WEATHER.—The term ‘‘extreme 
weather’’ includes observed or anticipated severe and 
unseasonable 
atmospheric 
conditions, 
including 
drought, wildfire, heavy precipitation, wave, high 
water, snowstorm, landslide, mudslide, hurricanes, 
tornadoes 
and 
other 
windstorms 
(including 
derechos), extreme heat, extreme cold, sustained 
temperatures or precipitation that deviate from his-
torical averages, and any other weather event that 
the Interagency Council determines qualifies as ex-
treme weather pursuant to section 2(f)(10). 
(4) INTERAGENCY COUNCIL.—The term ‘‘Inter-
agency Council’’ means the Interagency Council on 
Extreme Weather Resilience, Preparedness, and 
Risk Identification and Management established 
under section 2(a). 
(5) MITIGATION PLAN.—The term ‘‘mitigation 
plan’’ means the mitigation plan required under sec-
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tion 322 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5165). 
(6) NATIONAL
GLOBAL
CHANGE
RESEARCH 
PLAN.—The term ‘‘National Global Change Re-
search Plan’’ means the National Global Change Re-
search Plan developed under section 104 of the 
Global Change Research Act of 1990 (15 U.S.C. 
2934), or any revision thereof. 
(7) NATIONAL
OIL
AND
HAZARDOUS
SUB-
STANCES
POLLUTION
CONTINGENCY
PLAN.—The 
term ‘‘National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pol-
lution Contingency Plan’’ means the National Oil 
and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency 
Plan described under part 300 of title 40, Code of 
Federal Regulations, or any revision thereof. 
(8) NATIONAL
PREPAREDNESS
GOAL.—The 
term ‘‘National Preparedness Goal’’ means the na-
tional preparedness goal developed under section 643 
of the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform 
Act of 2006 (6 U.S.C. 743). 
(9) NATIONAL
PREPAREDNESS
REPORT.—The 
term ‘‘National Preparedness Report’’ means the re-
port required by section 652(a) of the Post-Katrina 
Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 (6 
U.S.C. 752(a); Public Law 109–295). 
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(10) PREPAREDNESS.—The term ‘‘prepared-
ness’’ means actions taken to plan, organize, equip, 
train, and exercise to build, apply, and sustain the 
capabilities necessary to prevent, protect against, 
ameliorate the effects of, respond to, and recover 
from extreme weather related damages to life, 
health, property, livelihoods, ecosystems, and na-
tional security. 
(11) 
RESILIENCE.—The 
term 
‘‘resilience’’ 
means the ability to anticipate, prepare for, and 
adapt to changing conditions and withstand, respond 
to, and recover rapidly from disruptions. 
(12) SENIOR OFFICIAL.—The term ‘‘senior offi-
cial’’ means a Deputy Secretary (or an equivalent of-
ficer) of an agency. 
(13) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of 
the several States, the District of Columbia, each 
commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United 
States, and each federally recognized Indian Tribe. 
(14) UNITED
STATES
GLOBAL
CHANGE
RE-
SEARCH PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘United States Glob-
al Change Research Program’’ means the United 
States Global Change Research Program established 
under section 103 of the Global Change Research 
Act of 1990 (15 U.S.C. 2933). 
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(15) UNITED
STATES
GLOBAL
CHANGE
RE-
SEARCH
PROGRAM
ANNUAL
REPORT.—The term 
‘‘United States Global Change Research Program 
Annual Report’’ means the report required by sec-
tion 102(e)(7) of the Global Change Research Act of 
1990 (15 U.S.C. 2932(e)(7)). 
SEC. 10. REQUIREMENT TO INCLUDE AGENCY EXTREME 
WEATHER PLAN IN AGENCY PERFORMANCE 
PLAN. 
A description of the most recent agency extreme 
weather plan, as required under section 3, shall be in-
cluded in the performance plan of an agency (as defined 
in section 9) required pursuant to section 1115(b) of title 
31, United States Code. 
SEC. 11. SUNSET AND REPEAL. 
This Act ceases to be effective and is repealed on the 
date that is 5 years after the date of the enactment of 
this Act. 
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Union Calendar No. 866 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4177 
[Report No. 115–1028, Part I] 
A BILL 
To enhance the Federal Government’s planning and 
preparation for extreme weather and the Federal 
Government’s dissemination of best practices to 
respond to extreme weather, thereby increasing 
resilience, improving regional coordination, and 
mitigating the financial risk to the Federal Gov-
ernment from such extreme weather, and for 
other purposes. 
DECEMBER 28, 2018 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform dis-
charged; committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union and ordered to be 
printed 
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