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Title

  • Main Title Congressional Primer on Responding to Major Disasters and Emergencies

Creator

  • Author: McCarthy, Francis X.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Analyst in Emergency Management Policy
  • Author: Brown, Jared T.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Analyst in Emergency Management and Homeland Security Policy

Publisher

  • Name: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
    Place of Publication: Washington D.C.
    Additional Info: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress

Date

  • Creation: 2014-04-30

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: This report covers the role of the government in disaster management. While the disaster response and recovery process is fundamentally a relationship between the federal government and the requesting state government, there are roles for congressional offices to play in providing information to the federal/state response and recovery teams in their respective states and districts, and as a source of accurate and timely information to their constituents.
  • Physical Description: 15 pages.

Subject

  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Emergency management
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Emergency communication systems
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Communication policy

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States

Collection

  • Name: Congressional Research Service Reports
    Code: CRSR

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • CRS Report Number: R41981
  • Accession or Local Control No: R41981_2014Apr30
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc287938
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