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21	concerning membership and the designation process). The goal is to implement the recommendations of this report as soon as practicable. 5.4 Duties and process. The interim and longterm National Drought Councils will be r Add to Reading List Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:20:58 Disaster preparedness Humanitarian aid Occupational safety and health Federal Emergency Management Agency Drought National Drought Policy Commission Atmospheric sciences Meteorology Emergency management
22	Charge to the National Drought Policy Commission • Determine, in consultation with the National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln, Nebraska, and other appropriate entities, what needs exist on the federal, state, lo Add to Reading List Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:18:20 National Drought Policy Commission Physical geography Drought Drought Research Initiative Atmospheric sciences Meteorology Droughts
23	RECOMMENDATIONS Policy Statement The Commission believes that national drought policy should use the resources of the federal government to support but not supplant nor interfere with state, tribal, regional, local, and Add to Reading List Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:20:28 Public safety Droughts Disaster preparedness Humanitarian aid Occupational safety and health National Drought Policy Commission Disaster Risk Preparedness Management Atmospheric sciences Emergency management
24	Foreword In July 1998, the 105th Congress enacted Public Law[removed], the National Drought Policy Act (Appendix A). This law established “an advisory commission to provide advice and recommendations on the creation of Add to Reading List Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:17:50
25	Drought Programs States We learned that as of June 1999, 30 states had drought plans, with most of those oriented to relief rather than preparedness (Appendix B, File C). Two states had delegated drought planning to loca Add to Reading List Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:18:52 Physical geography National Drought Policy Commission Drought Emergency management Water crisis Drought in the United States National Integrated Drought Information System Atmospheric sciences Meteorology Droughts
26	Localities A sample survey of county officials conducted by the National Association of Counties (NACO) in 1999 indicated that county governments primarily rely on federal programs for drought assistance (Appendix B, Fil Add to Reading List Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:19:00 Agriculture in the United States Physical geography National Drought Policy Commission Drought Cooperative extension service County Atmospheric sciences Meteorology Droughts
27	regional, state, tribal, and local levels and to the private sector and general public. The systems should include near real-time data, information and products developed at each of these levels and integrated in an appr Add to Reading List Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:20:38 Physical geography Hydrology National Drought Policy Commission Drought Climate Prediction Center National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration SNOTEL National Integrated Drought Information System Drought Research Initiative Atmospheric sciences Meteorology Droughts
28	Drought-related data can be better marshaled, interpreted, and disseminated to all parties with an interest in drought, including the media and public at large, so that citizens and experts in drought management alike ca Add to Reading List Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:20:22 Physical geography Climatology Drought Hydrology National Drought Policy Commission Emergency management Drought in the United States Atmospheric sciences Droughts Meteorology
29	Specific Recommendations 1.1 Congress should adequately fund existing drought preparedness programs such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Technical Assistance Program (Public Law 46) and Environment Add to Reading List Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:20:32 Physical geography National Drought Policy Commission Drought National Integrated Drought Information System Drought in the United States Atmospheric sciences Meteorology Droughts
30	FROM RELIEF TO READINESS For years, farmers and ranchers, tribes, public land managers, scientists, economists, small business owners, conservationists and wildlife managers, small and large municipalities, counties, sta Add to Reading List Source URL: govinfo.library.unt.edu Language: English - Date: 2003-11-10 13:18:20 Physical geography Climate of the United States Drought in the United States Drought North American drought National Drought Policy Commission Emergency management Drought Research Initiative Drought in Canada Atmospheric sciences Meteorology Droughts

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