The Infrastructure Systems Team focuses on restoring and enhancing infrastructure systems and services while incorporating risk reduction measure to improve resiliency to meet current community needs and plans for future growth.
The Infrastructure Systems RSF works to efficiently facilitate the restoration of infrastructure systems and services to support a viable, sustainable community and improves resilience to and protection from future hazards.
Coordinating Partner Agency: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Primary Partner Agencies: Department of Energy; Department of Homeland Security; Department of Transportation; Federal Emergency Management Agency; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Supporting Partner Organizations: Delta Regional Authority; Department of Agriculture; Department of Commerce; Department of Defense; Department of Education; Department of Health and Human Services; Department of Homeland Security; Department of Housing and Urban Development; Department of the Interior; Department of the Treasury; Environmental Protection Agency; Federal Communications Commission; General Services Administration; Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Tennessee Valley Authority
- Objectives:
- Include private sector infrastructure owners and operators and related service providers in planning at all levels.
- Provide technical assistance to all levels of governments for identifying/prioritizing critical infrastructure systems and assets.
- Create an inter-agency, inter-jurisdictional recovery planning process.
- Provide adequate Federal support and resources to assist affected local, state, tribal, territorial, and insular area governments with effective community planning and redevelopment efforts.
- Identify legal, policy, and programmatic requirements that may potentially limit efficient recovery and mitigate to the extent possible.
- Encourage the concepts of regional infrastructure resiliency.
- Provide mitigation opportunities that leverage innovative and green technologies.
- Create processes, policies, and timelines that support renewed economic activity
Meets Thursdays 4 pm City Hall
