Why were the Association of Governments (AOGs) chosen to prepare the Natural Hazard Pre-Disaster Mitigation Plan?
The seven AOGs have full-time planners and work with local governments regularly. Governmental agencies, professional associations, and the Utah League of Cities and Towns endorse this approach to planning. These agencies believe that it is the best approach to ensure coordination with elected officials, emergency managers, city and county planners, public works officials, and information technology specialists. The Wasatch Front Regional Council prepared the PDM Plan for the four county region of Southeastern Utah as well as the five county region of the Wasatch Front. How does the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) play a role in this process? The HMGP provides the funding to implement and enable mitigation projects that were identified in the PDM Plan. These funds could be available after a major presidential disaster declaration and during the immediate recovery from a disaster. Why do we have to create a new mitigation plan? Section 322- Mitigation Planning, of the Robert T. S
