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Okanogan County Set to Update Hazard Risk Plans

By NCBI
Nov 14, 2012

Okanogan County has launched a project to update the Okanogan County Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan and Community Wildfire Protection Plan. Local agencies and organizations in Okanogan County have created a committee to complete the required 5-year updates of these documents as part of the FEMA Pre-Disaster Mitigation program and National Fire Plan and Healthy Forests Restoration Act. The project is being funded through a Title III grant.

The planning update will include risk analyses, vulnerability assessments, and mitigation recommendations for the hazards of flood, landslide, earthquake, severe weather, wildland fire, and extended power outages.

Northwest Management, Inc. has been retained by Okanogan County to provide risk assessments, hazard mapping, field inspections, interviews, and to collaborate with the planning committee to update the Plans. The committee includes representatives from local communities, rural and wildland fire districts, Washington Department of Natural Resources, U.S Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, highway districts, private landowners, area businesses, various Okanogan County departments, and others.

One of the goals of the planning process will be to increase the participating jurisdictions' eligibility for additional grants that will help minimize the risk and potential impact of disaster events. The plan will be located on the main page of the Emergency Management website at okanogandem.org. The planning team will be conducting a public meeting to discuss preliminary findings and to seek public input on the Plans' recommendations. A notice of the dates and locations of this meeting will be posted in local newspapers. Once completed, the updated draft Plans will also be available for public review and comment. For more information on the Okanogan County Multi - Hazard Mitigation Plan and Community Wildfire Protection Plan updates, contact Glenda Beauregard, Okanogan County Emergency Management, at 509-422-7206 or gbeauregard@co.okanogan.wa.us.


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