[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 44, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
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.

    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]