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  • (1) "Account" means the Post Disaster Recovery and Mitigation Restricted Account created in Section 53-2a-1302.
  • (2) "Affected community" means a community directly affected by an ongoing or recent disaster.
  • (3) "Chief executive officer" means the same as that term is defined in Section 53-2a-203.
  • (4) "Community" means a county, municipality, local district, or special service district.
  • (5) "Costs not recoverable" include:
    • (a) the county threshold; and
    • (b) costs covered by insurance or federal government grants, including funding provided to the state by FEMA's Public Assistance grant program described in 44 C.F.R. Chapter 1, Subchapter D, Part 206.
  • (6) "County threshold" means, for each county, the countywide per capita indicator established by FEMA for the state, multiplied by the population of the county as determined by the division.
  • (7) "Disaster recovery" means action taken to remove debris, implement life-saving emergency protective measures, or repair, replace, or restore facilities in response to a disaster.
  • (8) "Disaster recovery grant" means money granted to an affected community for disaster recovery that amounts to not more than 75% of the difference between the cost of disaster recovery, as determined by the division after reviewing the official damage assessment, and costs not recoverable.
  • (9) "FEMA" means the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
  • (10) "Post hazard mitigation" means action taken, after a natural disaster, to reduce or eliminate risk to people or property that may occur as a result of the long-term effects of the natural disaster or a subsequent natural disaster, including action to prevent damage caused by flooding, earthquake, dam failure, wildfire, landslide, severe weather, drought, and problem soil.
  • (11) "Post hazard mitigation grant" means money granted to a community for post hazard mitigation that amounts to not more than 75% of the costs deemed necessary by the division to complete the post hazard mitigation.
  • (12) "Official damage assessment" means a financial assessment of the damage to an affected community, caused by a disaster, that is conducted under the direction of the governing body of the affected community, in accordance with the rules described in Section 53-2a-1305.




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