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Board adopts regional hazard mitigation plan; staff to use it to access FEMA grants and reduce future risk
Summary
The Orange County Board approved the INOHA regional hazard mitigation plan, which identifies high-risk hazards, mitigation goals and concrete actions (flood property acquisition, drainage projects, communications improvements) and will make the county eligible for certain FEMA mitigation grants and Community Rating System benefits.
The Orange County Board of Commissioners on Aug. 26 voted to adopt the INOHA (Alamance, Durham, Orange, Person counties) regional Hazard Mitigation Plan update, formalizing mitigation goals and actions that guide local disaster risk reduction and make jurisdictions eligible for certain FEMA mitigation grants and flood-insurance community rating considerations.
What the plan does: County staff and contractors described the plan as a four-phase, multi-step update that identifies hazards, assesses risk, develops mitigation actions and establishes an adoption and implementation path. The plan ranks hazards by priority risk index (PRI) and lists excessive heat, flooding, drought,…
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