A new bipartisan bill offered in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee would require federal agencies to take disaster resilience into account when investing in and managing property and assets.
S-3510 would require OMB to issue guidance on how to incorporate natural disaster resilience into those decisions, require it to work with the GAO and the Federal Emergency Management Agency on helping agencies identify potential gaps in their disaster resilience prevention efforts, and require reporting to Congress on implementation.
Sponsors said the bill is a response to a report GAO issued last year saying that while a Biden administration executive order told agencies to develop a climate action plan describing their vulnerabilities, neither that order nor later OMB guidance require agencies to use the information collected to make investment decisions.
That report said that where agencies have used that information for that purpose, they have achieved benefits, for example with buildings that have been able to withstand otherwise damaging hurricanes.
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