[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 44, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 44CFR300.1]



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              TITLE 44--EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE

 

 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

                                SECURITY

 

PART 300_DISASTER PREPAREDNESS ASSISTANCE--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 300.1  Definitions.









Sec.

300.1 Definitions.

300.2 Technical assistance.

300.3 Financial assistance.



    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.; Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 

1978; E.O. 12148.



    Source: 45 FR 13464, Feb. 29, 1980, unless otherwise noted.





    As used in this part:

    (a) The Act means the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 

Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.

    (b) Disaster assistance plans means those plans which identify tasks 

needed to deliver disaster assistance and to avoid, reduce, or mitigate 

natural hazards; make assignments to execute those tasks; reflect State 

authorities for executing disaster assignments; and provide for adequate 

training of personnel in their disaster or mitigation assignments.

    (c) Mitigation means the process of systematically evaluating the 

nature and extent of vulnerability to the effects of natural hazards 

present in society and planning and carrying out actions to minimize 

future vulnerability to those hazards to the greatest extent 

practicable.

    (d) State means any State of the United States, the District of 

Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Trust Territory of the 

Pacific Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of 

the Marshall Islands.



[54 FR 2128, Jan. 19, 1989]