long-term, thereby creating business and job growth op-
portunities by— 
(1) ensuring that the Federal Government is 
optimizing its use of existing resources and funding 
to support State and local officials, businesses, tribal 
nations, and the public to become more resilient, in-
cluding— 
(A) encouraging the consideration of, and 
ways to incorporate, extreme weather resilience 
across Federal operations, programs, policies, 
and initiatives; 
(B) promoting improved coordination of 
existing and planned Federal extreme weather 
resilience and adaptation efforts that impact ex-
treme weather resilience and ensuring their co-
ordination with, and support of, State, local, re-
gional, and tribal efforts; 
(C) minimizing Federal policies that may 
unintentionally hinder or reduce resilience, such 
as damaging wetlands or other critical green in-
frastructure, or lead Federal agencies to oper-
ate at cross-purposes in achieving extreme 
weather resilience; and 
(D) building upon existing related efforts, 
such as the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task 
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Force, the PPD–8, the National Preparedness 
System, and the whole community approach; 
(2) communicating the latest understanding 
and likely short- and long-term human and economic 
impacts and risks of extreme weather to businesses 
and the public; 
(3) supporting decisionmaking that improves 
resilience by providing forecasts and projections, 
data decision-support tools, and other information 
and mechanisms; and 
(4) establishing a consistent vision and strategic 
plan for extreme weather resilience across the Fed-
eral Government. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) DIRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means 
the Director of the Office of Science and Technology 
Policy. 
(2) EXTREME WEATHER.—The term ‘‘extreme 
weather’’ includes severe and unseasonable weather, 
heavy precipitation, hurricanes, storm surges, torna-
does, other windstorms (including derechos), extreme 
heat, extreme cold, and other qualifying weather 
events as determined by the interagency group es-
tablished under section 4(a)(1). 
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(3) RESILIENCE.—The term ‘‘resilience’’ means 
the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover 
from, and more successfully adapt to adverse events 
in a timely manner. 
SEC. 4. EXTREME WEATHER RESILIENCE GAP AND OVER-
LAP ANALYSIS. 
(a) INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.— 
(A) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director, with 
input from the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity, shall establish and chair an interagency 
working group with Cabinet-level representation 
from all relevant Federal agencies. 
(B) DUTIES.—The working group shall— 
(i) come together to provide a stra-
tegic vision of extreme weather resilience; 
(ii) conduct a gap and overlap anal-
ysis of Federal agencies’ current and 
planned activities related to achieving 
short- and long-term resilience to extreme 
weather and its impacts on the Nation, 
such as storm surge, flooding, drought, 
and wildfires; and 
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(iii) develop a National Extreme 
Weather Resilience Plan in accordance 
with section 5(a). 
(2) ADDITIONAL REPRESENTATION FROM EXEC-
UTIVE
OFFICE
OF
THE
PRESIDENT.—The inter-
agency working group established under paragraph 
(1) shall include representatives of the relevant of-
fices and councils within the Executive Office of the 
President, including— 
(A) the Office of Management and Budget; 
(B) the National Security Staff; 
(C) the Council of Economic Advisors; 
(D) the Council on Environmental Quality; 
and 
(E) the Domestic Policy Council. 
(3) CONSULTATION WITH TRIBAL, STATE, AND 
LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Federal inter-
agency working group established under para-
graph (1) shall work closely with an advisory 
group to take into account the needs of State 
and local entities across all regions of the 
United States. The advisory group shall consist 
of— 
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(i) 1 representative from the National 
Emergency Management Association; 
(ii) 7 representatives from States and 
State associations; and 
(iii) 8 representatives from local enti-
ties and associations, including representa-
tion from a tribal nation and at least 1 
major metropolitan area. 
(B) KEY
SECTORS.—The representatives 
described in subparagraph (A) shall, in the ag-
gregate, represent all of the key sectors set 
forth in subsection (b)(1). 
(C) MEETINGS.—The Director shall meet 
with the representatives described in subpara-
graph (A) not fewer than 9 times during the 
development of— 
(i) the gap and overlap analysis under 
this section; and 
(ii) the National Extreme Weather 
Resilience Action Plan under section 5. 
(4) COOPERATION BY FEDERAL AGENCIES.—In 
carrying out the activities described in subsection 
(b), Federal agency representatives participating in 
the working group shall be forthright and shall fully 
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cooperate with the Office of Science and Technology 
Policy. 
(5) DETAILEES.—Upon the request of the Di-
rector, each agency or entity referred to in para-
graph (1) shall provide the working group with a 
detailee, without reimbursement from the working 
group, to support the activities described in sub-
section (b), section 5, and section 7(a). Such detailee 
shall retain the rights, status, and privileges of his 
or her regular employment without interruption. 
(6) VOLUNTEER
SERVICES.—Notwithstanding 
section 1342 of title 31, United States Code, the 
working group may investigate and use such vol-
untary services as the working group determines to 
be necessary. 
(b) GAP AND OVERLAP ANALYSIS.—In conducting 
the gap and overlap analysis required under subsection 
(a)(1), Federal agency representatives shall— 
(1) develop a Federal Government-wide working 
vision for resilience to the impacts of extreme weath-
er events in the short- and long-term, in accordance 
with the purpose set forth in section 2(b), through 
an effort led by the Director and the interagency 
working group, which includes goals and objectives 
for key sectors. Key sectors shall include— 
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(3) create summaries of the existing and 
planned efforts and programmatic work underway or 
relevant to supporting State and local stakeholders 
in achieving greater extreme weather resilience in 
the short- and long-term for each sector identified 
under paragraph (1) and across the sectors, specifi-
cally including summaries of— 
(A) individual Federal agency programs, 
policies, regulations, and initiatives, and re-
search and data collection and dissemination ef-
forts; 
(B) areas of collaboration and coordination 
across Federal agencies; and 
(C) areas of coordination with State and 
local agencies, private entities, and regional co-
operation; 
(4) identify specific Federal programs, statutes, 
regulations, policies, and initiatives which may unin-
tentionally hinder resilience efforts, including an 
analysis of disincentives, barriers, and incompatible 
programs, policies, or initiatives across agencies and 
sectors; 
(5) examine how the severity and frequency of 
extreme weather events at the local and regional 
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level may change in the future and communicate 
these potential risks to stakeholders; 
(6) work together to identify and evaluate exist-
ing Federal tools and data to describe, analyze, fore-
cast, and model the potential impacts identified 
under paragraph (5) and develop recommendations 
to strengthen their ability to provide reliable and ac-
curate forecasts at the national, regional, State, and 
local levels; 
(7) identify gaps and overlaps in Federal agen-
cy work, resources, and authorities that impair the 
ability of the United States to meet the vision for 
short- and long-term extreme weather resilience, by 
comparing the goals and objectives identified for 
each sector and across sectors with the summaries 
identified in paragraph (3), specifically identifying 
gaps relating to— 
(A) individual Federal agency programs, 
policies, and initiatives, and research data col-
lection and dissemination efforts; 
(B) areas of collaboration and coordination 
across Federal agencies; and 
(C) areas of coordination with State and 
local agencies and private entities, and regional 
cooperation; 
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(8) determine potential measures to address the 
issues referred to in paragraph (4) and to address 
the gaps and overlaps referred to in paragraph (7) 
by— 
(A) designating individual or multiple Fed-
eral agencies to address these gaps; 
(B) building upon existing delivery mecha-
nisms; 
(C) evaluating options for programs, poli-
cies, and initiatives that may particularly ben-
efit extreme weather resilience efforts, including 
the role of ecosystem-based approaches; 
(D) recommending modifications to exist-
ing Federal agency programs, statutes, regula-
tions, policies, and initiatives to better support 
extreme weather resiliency; 
(E) requesting new authorities and re-
source requirements, if needed; and 
(F) identifying existing Federal govern-
ment processes that can be built upon to ad-
dress the purpose of this Act; and 
(9) establish, with the assistance of the General 
Services Administration or such other Federal agen-
cy as the Director may designate, a Federal advisory 
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working group to provide ongoing collective input to 
the process. 
(c) WORKING GROUP.—The Federal advisory work-
ing group established pursuant to subsection (b)(9) shall 
consist of relevant private sector, academic, State and 
local government, tribal nation, regional organization, vul-
nerable population, and nongovernmental representatives, 
with representation from each sector described in para-
graph (1). The Director may designate an existing Federal 
advisory committee under which the working group would 
operate independently, with the same rights and privileges 
held by members of the advisory committee. The members 
of the working group established pursuant to subsection 
(b)(9) may not simultaneously serve as members of the 
advisory committee designated pursuant to this sub-
section. The activities of the working group should com-
plement and not duplicate the stakeholder process con-
ducted under PPD–8. 
SEC. 5. NATIONAL EXTREME WEATHER RESILIENCE AC-
TION PLAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Based on the results of the gap 
and overlap analysis conducted under section 4, the Direc-
tor, working with the interagency working group estab-
lished under such section, and considering the efforts de-
scribed in section 2(a)(9), shall develop a National Ex-
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treme Weather Resilience Action Plan (referred to in this 
section as the ‘‘Plan’’)— 
(1) to build upon existing Federal Government 
processes referred to in section 4(b)(8)(F)— 
(A) to address the results of the gap and 
overlap analysis under section 4; and 
(B) to incorporate the activities required 
under subsection (c); 
(2) to best utilize existing resources and pro-
grams through improved interagency coordination 
and collaboration; 
(3) to improve Federal coordination with exist-
ing regional entities, State and local governments, 
networks, and private stakeholders; 
(4) to make data and tools accessible and un-
derstandable and to help facilitate information ex-
change for tribal, State, and local officials, busi-
nesses, and other stakeholders in a manner that ad-
dresses the needs expressed by these stakeholders; 
(5) to facilitate public-private partnerships; 
(6) to improve Federal agencies’ economic ana-
lytical capacity to assess— 
(A) the likelihood and potential costs of ex-
treme weather impacts by region and nation-
ally; and 
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