(B) the relative benefits of potential resil-
ience measures to multiple stakeholders; 
(7) to provide tools to stakeholders— 
(A) to conduct analyses similar to those 
described in paragraph (6); and 
(B) to support decisionmaking; 
(8) to support resiliency plans developed by 
State and local governments, regional entities, and 
tribal nations, to the extent possible; and 
(9) to request further resources, if necessary, to 
fill in gaps to enable national resilience to extreme 
weather, including resilience of tribal nations, and 
particularly vulnerable populations, and the use of 
green infrastructure and ecosystem-based solutions. 
(b) COOPERATION.—Any Federal agency representa-
tive contacted by the Director, in the course of developing 
the Plan, shall be forthright and shall fully cooperate with 
the Office of Science and Technology Policy, as requested. 
(c) REQUIRED ACTIVITIES.— 
(1) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Plan shall include 
specific Federal agency and interagency responsibil-
ities, identify potential new authorities, if necessary, 
and employ risk analysis— 
(A) to address the gaps identified through 
the gap and overlap analysis; and 
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(B) to improve Federal interagency coordi-
nation and Federal coordination with State, re-
gional, local, and tribal partners. 
(2) AVAILABLE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES.— 
(A) IDENTIFICATION.—The Director shall 
identify— 
(i) existing Federal grant programs 
and other funding opportunities available 
to support State and local government ex-
treme weather resiliency planning efforts; 
or 
(ii) 
projects 
to 
advance 
extreme 
weather resiliency. 
(B) PUBLICATION.—The Director shall 
publish the information described in subpara-
graph (A) in the information portal identified in 
paragraph (3). 
(C) 
RESPONSIBILITIES.—Each 
partici-
pating agency shall— 
(i) consider incorporating criteria or 
guidance into existing relevant Federal 
grant and other funding opportunities to 
better support State and local efforts to 
improve extreme weather resiliency; and 
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(ii) evaluate and modify existing Fed-
eral funding opportunities, as appropriate, 
to maximize the return on investment for 
pre-disaster mitigation activities. 
(3) INFORMATION PORTAL.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Plan shall— 
(i) include the establishment of an on-
line, publicly available information portal 
for use by Federal agencies, their partners, 
and stakeholders, that directs users to key 
data and tools to inform resilience-enhanc-
ing efforts; and 
(ii) build off and be complementary to 
existing 
Federal 
efforts, 
including 
data.gov. 
(B) MAINTENANCE.—The coordinating en-
tity identified under paragraph (4) shall be re-
sponsible for establishing and maintaining the 
information portal. 
(C) INFORMATION
SUPPLIED.—Informa-
tion shall be supplied as requested by Federal 
agencies, their partners, academia, and private 
stakeholders, in coordination with regional, 
State, local, and tribal agencies. 
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(D) CONTENTS.—The information portal 
established under this paragraph shall direct 
users to coordinated and systematic information 
on— 
(i) best or model practices; 
(ii) data; 
(iii) case studies; 
(iv) indicators; 
(v) scientific reports; 
(vi) resilience and vulnerability assess-
ments; 
(vii) guidance documents and design 
standards; 
(viii) incentives; 
(ix) education and communication ini-
tiatives; 
(x) decision support tools, including 
risk management, short- and long-term 
economic analysis, and predictive models; 
(xi) planning tools; 
(xii) public and private sources of as-
sistance; and 
(xiii) such other information as the 
coordinating entity considers appropriate. 
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(4) COORDINATING
ENTITY.—The Plan shall 
include the identification of a Federal agency, inter-
agency council, office, or program, which partici-
pated in the gap and overlap analysis and Plan de-
velopment. Such entity shall— 
(A) coordinate the implementation of the 
Plan; 
(B) track the progress of such implementa-
tion; and 
(C) transfer responsibilities to another 
Federal agency, interagency council, office, or 
program to serve as the coordinating entity if 
the entities participating in the working group 
agree that circumstances necessitate such a 
change. 
(5) RESILIENCY OFFICER.—Each Federal agen-
cy that assists with the gap and overlap analysis re-
quired under section 4 shall designate, from among 
the agency’s senior management, a Senior Resiliency 
Officer, who shall— 
(A) facilitate the implementation of the 
agency’s responsibilities under paragraph (1); 
(B) monitor the agency’s progress and per-
formance in implementing its responsibilities 
under paragraph (1); 
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(C) report the agency’s progress and per-
formance to the head of the agency and the co-
ordinating entity identified under paragraph 
(4); and 
(D) serve as the agency lead in ongoing co-
ordination efforts within the Federal agency 
and between the coordinating entity, other Fed-
eral agencies, public and private partners, and 
stakeholders. 
(d) PUBLICATION.— 
(1) DRAFT
PLAN.—Not later than 420 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Di-
rector shall publish a draft of the Plan developed 
under this section in the Federal Register. 
(2) PUBLIC
COMMENT
PERIOD.—During the 
60-day period beginning on the date on which the 
draft Plan is published under paragraph (1), the Di-
rector shall— 
(A) solicit comment from the public; and 
(B) conduct a briefing for Congress to ex-
plain the provisions contained in the draft Plan. 
(3) FINAL
PLAN.—Not later than 120 days 
after the end of the public comment period described 
in paragraph (2), the Director shall publish the final 
Plan in the Federal Register. 
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(e) IMPLEMENTATION.—Not later than 630 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director 
shall begin implementing the final Plan published under 
subsection (d)(3). 
(f) FINANCING.—To the extent possible— 
(1) Federal funding should be used to leverage 
private sector financing for resilience building activi-
ties, consistent with the implementation of the Plan, 
through public-private partnerships; and 
(2) Federal grant and loan programs of the 
Federal agencies participating in the interagency 
working group for this effort shall consider extreme 
weather resilience as a key factor when awarding 
funding, including the projected extreme weather 
risk to a project over the course of its expected life. 
(g) TRIBAL, STATE, AND
LOCAL
RESPONSIBIL-
ITIES.—The Plan may not place new unfunded require-
ments on State or local governments. 
SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF OTHER ACTIVITIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Federal agencies are authorized 
to develop tools and disseminate information to improve 
extreme weather resilience in the key sectors set forth in 
section 4(b)(1). 
(b) OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POL-
ICY.—In conducting the gap and overlap analysis under 
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section 4 and developing the National Extreme Weather 
Resilience Action Plan under section 5, the Director may 
carry out additional activities in support of the purpose 
of this Act. 
SEC. 7. REPORTS. 
(a) GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE RE-
PORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United 
States shall submit a report to Congress that— 
(1) identifies existing Federal Government pro-
grams and policies related to disaster relief, re-
sponse, and recovery that impede improving short- 
and long-term extreme weather resilience; and 
(2) make recommendations for how the pro-
grams or policies could be structured differently to 
better support short- and long-term resilience after 
an extreme weather event. 
(b) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director shall 
submit a report to Congress that contains— 
(1) the results of the gap and overlap analysis; 
(2) the final National Extreme Weather Resil-
ience Action Plan; 
(3) an update on the implementation of the 
plan; and 
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(4) available resources for the sustained imple-
mentation of the plan. 
(c) TRIENNIAL REPORTS.—Not later than 2 years 
after the submission of the report under subsection (a), 
and every 3 years thereafter, the coordinating entity iden-
tified under section 5(c)(4), in cooperation with the inter-
agency working group established under section 4(a), shall 
submit a report to Congress that— 
(1) contains an update of the National Extreme 
Weather Resilience Action Plan; 
(2) describes the progress of the plan’s imple-
mentation; 
(3) improves upon the original analysis as more 
information 
and 
understanding 
about 
extreme 
weather events becomes available; 
(4) establishes criteria for prioritization of ac-
tivities described in the plan; 
(5) reconsiders and makes changes to the plan 
based on the availability of new information de-
scribed in paragraph (3); and 
(6) identifies cost-effective changes to laws, 
policies, or regulations that could advance the pur-
pose of this Act. 
(d) FEMA REPORTS ON FUNDING.— 
(1) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
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(A) The Federal Emergency Management 
Agency grant programs are a key vehicle that 
exists to fund activities related to resiliency 
planning and projects. 
(B) In order to ensure that the United 
States becomes more resilient to extreme weath-
er, it is important to ensure that sufficient re-
sources are available to support resiliency ac-
tivities. 
(2) REPORTS.—At the end of each fiscal year, 
the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency (in this paragraph referred to as 
‘‘FEMA’’) shall submit a report to Congress that— 
(A) identifies the amounts that were made 
available to FEMA during such fiscal year for 
State and local entities to use for activities that 
support the purposes of this Act; 
(B) identifies the amounts disbursed by 
FEMA to State and local entities during such 
fiscal year for such activities; 
(C) describes the resources requested by 
State and local entities for activities that sup-
port the purposes of this Act; and 
(D) identifies the difference between the 
amounts disbursed by FEMA and the amounts 
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requested from FEMA by State and local enti-
ties. 
SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) AMOUNTS FOR ANALYSIS, PLAN DEVELOPMENT 
AND IMPLEMENTATION, AND REPORTS.—There are au-
thorized to be appropriated such sums as may be nec-
essary for fiscal years 2016 through 2018— 
(1) to conduct the gap and overlap analysis re-
quired under section 4; 
(2) to conduct the activities required under sec-
tion 5, including the creation and maintenance of 
the information portal; and 
(3) to prepare the reports to Congress required 
under subsections (b) and (c) of section 7. 
(b) AVAILABILITY
OF
FUNDS.—Amounts appro-
priated pursuant to subsection (a) shall remain available 
for the purposes set forth in such subsection through De-
cember 31, 2018. 
Æ 
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