(i) the challenges, barriers, or dis-
incentives for the Federal Government to 
build resilience to climate change in the 
United States; 
(ii) the inconsistencies in goals, prior-
ities, or strategies underlying climate resil-
ience operations and policy across rep-
resented agencies that may inhibit effective 
interagency coordination to support na-
tional climate resilience, including— 
(I) the areas of necessary dif-
ferences in those goals, priorities, or 
strategies; and 
(II) the justifications for those 
inconsistencies; 
(iii) areas of overlap or redundant use 
of resources between or among represented 
agencies, including recommendations to 
eliminate any unnecessary or unintentional 
redundancy; 
(iv) gaps or deficiencies in resilience 
operations and policy that need to be ad-
dressed in the context of the Strategy; 
(v) opportunities for greater collabora-
tion between or among represented agen-
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cies to improve Federal Government resil-
ience operations and policy; and 
(vi) opportunities for greater collabo-
ration between the Federal Government 
and non-Federal partners to build local- 
level adaptive capacity and resilience; and 
(B) includes a review and summary of all 
available Federal funding from represented 
agencies that is specifically allocated for climate 
adaptation activities to be undertaken by non- 
Federal partners, including— 
(i) a summary of Federal funding 
available in appropriations accounts and 
subaccounts; 
(ii) disparities between the supply and 
demand for adaptation funding available to 
non-Federal partners; and 
(iii) existing mechanisms to ensure 
Federal funding allocations are being di-
rected to frontline communities with the 
greatest level of vulnerability. 
SEC. 6. NATIONAL CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCE 
STRATEGY. 
(a) STRATEGY.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Chief Resil-
ience Officer and the Working Groups shall jointly 
submit to the President and Congress a National 
Climate Adaptation and Resilience Strategy. 
(2) UPDATES.—Not later than the date that is 
3 years after the date on which the Chief Resilience 
Officer and the Working Groups jointly submit the 
Strategy to the President and Congress under para-
graph (1), and every 3 years thereafter, the Chief 
Resilience Officer and the Working Groups shall 
jointly submit an updated version of the Strategy to 
the President and Congress to account for— 
(A) new science related to climate change, 
resilience, and adaptation; 
(B) relevant changes in Federal Govern-
ment structure, congressional authorities, or ap-
propriations; and 
(C) any other necessary improvements or 
changes identified by the Chief Resilience Offi-
cer. 
(3) PURPOSE AND SCOPE.—The Strategy shall 
describe strategies for the Federal Government, in 
partnership with non-Federal partners, to address 
the vulnerabilities of the United States to climate 
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change described in the National Climate Assess-
ment or other relevant analyses identified by the 
Chief Resilience Officer to ensure that— 
(A) the United States has an overarching 
strategic vision to respond to climate change 
that— 
(i) identifies national climate resil-
ience goals and guides national climate ad-
aptation efforts; 
(ii) facilitates the incorporation of the 
climate resilience goals identified under 
clause (i) into relevant national programs, 
operations, and strategies; 
(iii) develops proactive, long-term, sce-
nario-based strategies to plan for and re-
spond to current and future climate im-
pacts to human communities, natural re-
sources and public land, and infrastructure 
and other physical assets; 
(iv) emphasizes forward-thinking ad-
aptation strategies that seek to overcome 
repeated climate impacts to vulnerable sys-
tems and communities; 
(v) prioritizes climate resilience efforts 
to support the most vulnerable human 
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communities and the most urgent national 
resilience challenges, as determined by the 
Chief Resilience Officer in consultation 
with the Working Groups; 
(vi) avoids unnecessary redundancies 
and inefficiencies in the national planning 
for and response to climate change; and 
(vii) recognizes the vulnerability of 
natural systems to climate change and un-
derscores the importance of promoting eco-
system resilience to preserve the intrinsic 
value of nature and support ecosystem 
services relied on by human beings; 
(B) Federal investments in Federal and 
non-Federal infrastructure and assets promote 
climate resilience to the maximum extent prac-
ticable; and 
(C) the adaptive capacity and resilience of 
State, local, and territorial governments, gov-
ernments of Indian Tribes, and governments of 
Freely Associated States are maximized to the 
maximum extent practicable. 
(4) COUNCIL
RECOMMENDATIONS.—In devel-
oping the Strategy, the Chief Resilience Officer and 
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Working Groups shall consider the recommendations 
of the Council. 
(5) INCLUSIONS.—In addition to the over-
arching strategies developed in accordance with 
paragraph (3), the Strategy shall include the fol-
lowing: 
(A) DIRECT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RE-
SPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE.— 
(i) Strategies to address the limita-
tions, redundancies, and opportunities for 
improved resilience operations of the Fed-
eral Government that are identified in the 
Operations Report. 
(ii) Strategies to better prepare the 
United States for the adverse impacts ex-
perienced or anticipated to be experienced 
as a result of— 
(I) rapid-onset climate hazards; 
(II) slow-onset climate hazards; 
(III) compound climate hazards; 
and 
(IV) cascading climate hazards. 
(iii) 1 or more strategies to educate, 
engage, or develop the skills of the work-
force of the represented agencies with re-
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spect to topics related to climate change 
vulnerability and resilience to promote ef-
fective Federal resilience operations. 
(iv) An identification of opportunities 
and appropriate circumstances for rep-
resented agencies to better utilize natural 
infrastructure as an adaptation strategy. 
(B) SUPPORT
OF
NON-FEDERAL
PART-
NERS’ RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE.— 
(i) 1 or more strategies for rep-
resented agencies to better collaborate and 
work directly with non-Federal partners to 
increase the resilience and adaptive capac-
ity of State, local, and territorial govern-
ments, the governments of Indian Tribes, 
the governments of Freely Associated 
States, and other non-Federal partners. 
(ii) 1 or more strategies to educate 
non-Federal partners about the availability 
of Federal funding opportunities identified 
in the Operations Report under section 
5(2)(B), including the development of a 
centralized, cross-agency portal that allows 
non-Federal partners to easily identify and 
apply for appropriate Federal funding op-
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portunities for the specific resilience needs 
of those non-Federal partners. 
(iii) 1 or more strategies to clarify, 
simplify, and harmonize the planning re-
quirements and application processes for 
State, local, and territorial governments, 
the governments of Indian Tribes, and the 
governments of Freely Associated States to 
access Federal funds for climate adapta-
tion and resilience efforts across rep-
resented agencies. 
(iv) 1 or more strategies to identify 
under-resourced communities and commu-
nities with low adaptive capacity and resil-
ience and to directly support those commu-
nities in applying for Federal funds for cli-
mate adaptation and resilience efforts. 
(v) 1 or more strategies to support 
the retreat or relocation of human commu-
nities in areas that are at increasing risk 
from climate change, in particular from 
slow-onset climate hazards, including strat-
egies to better manage equitable property 
buyouts, managed retreat, or relocation op-
tions for communities in those areas. 
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(C) CLIMATE INFORMATION.— 
(i) 1 or more strategies to increase 
the accessibility and utility of climate in-
formation that is produced, published, or 
hosted by the Federal Government, includ-
ing strategies to better collaborate across 
the represented agencies and work with 
non-Federal partners— 
(I) to provide the high-quality, lo-
cally relevant climate information and, 
where practicable and useful, trans-
parent and replicable downscaled cli-
mate projections that are necessary to 
support local-level adaptation efforts; 
(II) to establish improved meth-
ods of communicating climate risk 
and other relevant climate informa-
tion; 
(III) to better educate non-Fed-
eral partners about the available re-
sources for climate information; and 
(IV) to assist non-Federal part-
ners in selecting and using appro-
priate climate information or related 
tools. 
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(ii) Standardized procedures to syn-
thesize, align, and update climate informa-
tion produced, published, or hosted by the 
Federal Government to create arrays of 
standardized national, regional, and, where 
applicable, local climate information for 
adaptation planning. 
(iii) An assessment of the necessity 
and utility of developing or improving a 
centralized clearinghouse and dedicated 
Federal program for climate information to 
better provide climate information to end 
users. 
(iv) 1 or more strategies to develop 
the centralized clearinghouse or dedicated 
Federal program described in clause (iii), 
if such an effort is determined to be nec-
essary by the Chief Resilience Officer. 
(D) RESILIENCE
METRICS
AND
INDICA-
TORS.—At the discretion of the Chief Resilience 
Officer, 1 or more strategies to develop or im-
prove resilience metrics and indicators to assist 
the Federal Government and non-Federal part-
ners— 
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(i) to the maximum extent practicable, 
to consistently measure the resilience of 
human communities, natural systems, and 
physical assets to climate change; 
(ii) to set baselines and targets to 
measurably increase climate resilience over 
time; and 
(iii) to better monitor and assess the 
effectiveness of various resilience-building 
activities after implementation. 
(E) FUNDING CLIMATE ADAPTATION.— 
(i) 1 or more strategies to help 
prioritize Federal funding expenditures for 
adaptation and resilience in consideration 
of the greatest vulnerabilities. 
(ii) 1 or more strategies to create fi-
nancial incentives for adaptation and resil-
ience efforts. 
(iii) A review of the cost-benefit anal-
ysis methodologies and discount rates used 
by represented agencies for all Federal in-
vestments, including a review of the impli-
cations of those methodologies and dis-
count rates for climate adaptation and re-
silience. 
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(iv) Recommendations to improve the 
methodologies described in clause (iii) to 
reflect— 
(I) the added value of resilience 
planning and construction methodolo-
gies over the lifetime of a project or 
unit of infrastructure; 
(II) the benefits of natural infra-
structure investments; 
(III) the potential value of re-
treat and relocation as adaptation so-
lutions; and 
(IV) to what extent existing cost- 
benefit analysis methodologies lead to 
inequitable outcomes or outcomes that 
increase climate vulnerability. 
(F) SOCIAL EQUITY.— 
(i) Strategies to ensure that the costs, 
benefits, and risks resulting from climate 
resilience efforts, including funding alloca-
tions, the methodologies for determining 
funding allocations, and existing and fu-
ture policies, are equitably distributed 
among sectors of society, types of commu-
nities, and geographies. 
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(ii) Strategies to ensure that federally 
supported climate resilience efforts are— 
(I) designed in consultation with 
the communities that will be affected 
by those efforts; and 
(II) centered on the needs of 
those communities. 
(iii) To the greatest extent prac-
ticable, 1 or more strategies to integrate 
social equity considerations across all as-
pects of the Strategy. 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.—Concurrently with the 
Strategy and each update of the Strategy, the Chief Resil-
ience Officer and the Working Groups shall jointly submit 
to the President and Congress an Implementation Plan 
that describes how represented agencies intend to carry 
out the Strategy, which shall include— 
(1) a description of the roles and responsibil-
ities of each represented agency in carrying out each 
element of the Strategy described in subsection (a); 
(2) a plan to enter into such interagency agree-
ments between and among represented agencies, 
partnerships with non-Federal entities, and other 
agreements for coordination between and among the 
Federal Government and non-Federal partners as 
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may be necessary to facilitate a unified national plan 
to build resilience to climate change; and 
(3) the use of any relevant metrics and indica-
tors described in subsection (a)(5)(D). 
(c) ASSESSMENT.—Not later than 2 years following 
the completion of each Strategy under subsection (a)(1) 
and each Implementation Plan, the Comptroller General 
of the United States shall submit to the President and 
Congress a report that assesses— 
(1) the extent to which the Strategy and Imple-
mentation Plan have been carried out by the Federal 
Government, which shall be judged, as appropriate, 
based on any metrics and indicators developed to 
track progress in increasing resilience under sub-
section (a)(5)(D); 
(2) the effectiveness of the actions taken under 
the Strategy and Implementation Plan and the re-
sulting outcomes of those actions in building na-
tional resilience to climate change; and 
(3) the progress made towards the development 
of an effective whole-of-government effort to build 
resilience to the climate vulnerabilities described in 
the National Climate Assessment or other relevant 
analyses identified by the Chief Resilience Officer, 
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including recommendations for additional steps nec-
essary to reach this goal. 
(d) PUBLIC COMMENT.—The Chief Resilience Officer 
shall— 
(1) publish draft and final versions of the 
Strategy and Implementation Plan, and each update 
to the Strategy and Implementation Plan; and 
(2) through publication in the Federal Register, 
solicit comments from the public on the draft 
versions of the documents published under para-
graph (1) for a period of 60 days, which the Chief 
Resilience Officer and the Working Groups shall 
consider before submitting final versions of the 
Strategy and Implementation Plan, and updates to 
the Strategy and Implementation Plan, to the Presi-
dent and Congress. 
SEC. 7. GENERAL PROVISIONS. 
(a) SUNSET.—This Act ceases to be effective on the 
date that is the earlier of— 
(1) the date on which the Comptroller General 
of the United States submits to the President and 
Congress the third assessment report under section 
6(c); and 
(2) the date that is the last day of fiscal year 
2032. 
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(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to the Executive Office of 
the President to carry out this Act $2,000,000 for each 
of fiscal years 2022 through the fiscal year in which this 
Act ceases to be effective under subsection (a). 
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