I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9179 
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 14, 2022 
Mr. 
CARTWRIGHT
(for 
himself, 
Mrs. 
AXNE, 
Mr. 
CONNOLLY, 
Mr. 
FITZPATRICK, Miss GONZA´LEZ-COLO´N, Mr. LAMALFA, Mr. LOWENTHAL, 
Mr. NEGUSE, Ms. NORTON, Mr. PETERS, Mr. ROUZER, and Ms. WILD) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on 
Oversight and Reform, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
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 
2022’’ or the ‘‘PREPARE Act of 2022’’. 
(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. Providing adequate resources and support. 
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. 2. INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON EXTREME WEATHER 
RESILIENCE, 
PREPAREDNESS, 
AND 
RISK 
IDENTIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The President shall establish 
an interagency council on extreme weather resilience, 
preparedness, and risk identification and manage-
ment. 
(2) DESIGNATION.—Notwithstanding subsection 
(b) and subsection (c)(1), the President may des-
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ignate an existing Government entity to carry out 
the duties described in subsections (f) and (g). 
(b) MEMBERSHIP.—The Interagency Council shall be 
composed of the following: 
(1) Senior officials, to be appointed by the head 
of the respective agency in consultation with 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 Institute of Standards 
and Technology. 
(H) The National Oceanic and Atmos-
pheric Administration. 
(I) The Department of Energy. 
(J) The Department of Homeland Secu-
rity. 
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(K) The Federal Emergency Management 
Agency. 
(L) The Department of Defense. 
(M) The National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration. 
(N) The Department of Agriculture. 
(O) The Department of Housing and 
Urban Development. 
(P) The Department of Justice. 
(Q) The Department of the Interior. 
(R) The Department of Commerce. 
(S) The National Science Foundation. 
(T) The United States Geological Survey. 
(U) The United States Army Corps of En-
gineers. 
(V) The General Services Administration. 
(W) The Department of State. 
(X) The Department of Health and 
Human Services. 
(Y) The Department of Labor. 
(2) Senior officials, to be appointed by the 
President, who have relevant policy expertise and 
policy responsibilities, including in the following 
areas: 
(A) Economic policy and risk analysis. 
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(B) Foreign affairs. 
(C) Defense and intelligence. 
(D) Homeland security. 
(E) Energy. 
(F) Environmental protection. 
(G) Natural and cultural resources. 
(H) Coasts, oceans, rivers, wetlands, and 
floodplains. 
(I) Agriculture. 
(J) Health and social services. 
(K) Transportation and infrastructure. 
(L) Housing. 
(M) Education. 
(N) Extreme weather data analysis or me-
teorological science. 
(O) Social science. 
(P) Strategic and adaptation planning. 
(Q) Urban and land use planning. 
(R) Infrastructure systems. 
(S) Civil rights. 
(T) Forestry and land management. 
(U) Acquisition. 
(V) Environmental justice. 
(W) Emergency management. 
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(X) Other areas the President determines 
appropriate. 
(c) CO-CHAIRPERSONS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Interagency Council 
shall be co-chaired by the Administrator of the Fed-
eral Emergency Management Agency and the Dep-
uty Director of the Office of Management and Budg-
et. The President may appoint one or more addi-
tional 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). 
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(d) ADMINISTRATION.—The co-chairpersons of the 
Interagency Council (or staff designated by the co-chair-
persons) shall provide administrative support and addi-
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 based on expertise 
and established leadership in the field. Such steering 
committee shall assist the Interagency Council in de-
termining its priorities and its strategic direction. 
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(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.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Interagency Coun-
cil shall establish governmentwide goals and 
priorities for addressing extreme weather resil-
ience, preparedness, and risk identification and 
management, taking into account regional, eco-
nomic, cultural, and ecological variations, and 
the disproportionate harm caused by extreme 
weather on vulnerable and underserved individ-
uals and communities. In establishing such 
goals and priorities, the Interagency Council 
shall consider agency extreme weather plans re-
quired under section 3(a), agency Climate Ad-
aptation Action Plans, the National Oil and 
Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency 
Plan, agency continuity of operations plans, the 
National Preparedness Goal, the National Pre-
paredness Report, the National Global Change 
Research Plan, plans for the development and 
implementation of the Building Resilient Infra-
structure and Communities program, the Miti-
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gation Framework Leadership Group’s National 
Mitigation Investment Strategy, the strategic 
plan required under the National Windstorm 
Impact Reduction Reauthorization Act of 2015 
(Public Law 114–52), State mitigation plans, 
State resilience plans, energy assurance plans, 
coastal zone management plans, watershed 
plans, other landscape plans, and all relevant 
findings described in the Government Account-
ability Office’s High-Risk Series. 
(B) COORDINATION.—In executing the du-
ties pursuant to this subsection, the Inter-
agency Council shall coordinate with other enti-
ties in the Federal Government focused on ex-
treme weather mitigation and recovery (includ-
ing the Mitigation Framework Leadership 
Group, the Recovery Support Functions Lead-
ers Group, the Emergency Support Functions 
Leaders Group, the Interagency Council for Ad-
vancing Meteorological Services, the U.S. Glob-
al Climate Change Research Program, the Na-
tional Drought Resilience Partnership, and the 
National Windstorm Impact Reduction Pro-
gram), to facilitate communication and collabo-
ration among Federal activities. 
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(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; 
(iii) work to identify localized extreme 
weather and natural hazard risk to the ex-
tent possible using the best available infor-
mation regarding risk, and encourage the 
development of thorough, updated maps, 
models, and tools to measure and evaluate 
risk; and 
(iv) communicate extreme weather 
and natural hazards resilience, prepared-
ness, mitigation, response, and recovery 
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using techniques founded in social and be-
havioral science. 
(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 addressing extreme weather resilience, pre-
paredness, and risk identification and management 
with an emphasis on vulnerable and underserved 
communities. 
(3) SUPPORT REGIONAL, STATE, TRIBAL, AND 
LOCAL
ACTIONS.—The Interagency Council shall 
support regional, State, Tribal, and local action to 
assess extreme weather-related vulnerabilities, or the 
degree to which a system is susceptible to, or unable 
to cope with, adverse effects of extreme weather in-
cluding climate variability and extremes, public 
health, and the cost to effectively increase extreme 
weather resilience, preparedness, and risk identifica-
tion and management of communities, critical eco-
nomic sectors, natural and built infrastructure, and 
natural and cultural resources, including by— 
(A) conducting inventories under section 6; 
(B) convening meetings under section 7; 
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(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, particularly for vulnerable and under-
served communities, including guidance on cost- 
effectiveness as it pertains to extreme weather 
and on how to prioritize funding in order to 
produce such tools and products; and 
(D) reviewing State adaptation plans. 
(4) METEOROLOGICAL AND EXTREME WEATHER 
SCIENCE.—The Interagency Council shall facilitate 
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 
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