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From YouTube: Q and A With Stephanie Tennyson
Description
This video features Stephanie Tennyson of the FEMA Office of External Affairs who spoke at the 2016 NCSl Legislative Summit issue session on Natural Disasters: Planning, Preparing and Paying for Them. The NCSL Legislative Summit was held in Chicago on Aug. 8-11, 2016.
A
B
There's
been
a
lot
of
great
work
across
the
country
to
to
buy
down
those
risks,
so
the
thought
was
behind.
The
public
assistance
deductible
is
to
look
at
the
risks
to
States,
come
up
with
a
deductibles
kind
of
like
an
interest
adductor
that
they
would
have
to
meet
before
receiving
their
initial
federal
funding
for
a
disaster.
But
there
too
that
deductible
states
would
actually
be
able
to
apply
credits
for
things
that
they
have
done
to
take
efforts
to
mitigate
against
floods.
Again.
B
A
There
are
many
things
that
states
themselves
can
do
to
mitigate
and
lessen
the
cost
of
a
natural
disaster,
and
it
seems,
like
FEMA,
has
a
opportunity
with
the
disaster
deductible
to
give
them
some
credit.
Give
them
some
some
ability
to
receive
some
their
of
their
funds
and
give
them
some
recognition
for
meeting
these
efforts.
Absolutely.
B
And
that
is
something
I
think
that
we
have
not
necessarily
captured
all
that.
Well,
we
obviously
understand
and
know
the
dollars
that
the
federal
government
has
put
into
mitigation
pre
mitigation,
so
before
a
disaster,
as
well
as
the
funds
that
go
to
States
after
a
disaster
as
part
of
those
that
cost,
but
really
working
with
our
state
partners
and
with
associations
that
represent
them
to
better
understand
what
they
have
been
doing
over
the
past
many
years
to
make
their
community
safer,
make
them
more
resilient
and
and
to
give
them
credit
for
doing
that.
What.
B
You
for
that,
so
as
we
move
forward
for
the
next
step
for
this
proposal,
we
do
believe
that
this
is
an
important
conversation
that
we're
having
an
important
dialogue
that
needs
to
take
place
within
the
country.
So,
as
a
state
legislator,
I
would
I
would
ask
that
they
have
those
conversations
with
their
body
within
with
other
state
legislators,
and
importantly,
more
importantly,
rather
to
have
the
conversation
with
their
state
emergency
management
directors
with
their
governors
with
their
communities
about
what
they
want
to
do.
A
B
But
certainly
we
would
like
to
see
before
the
end
of
the
year
and
to
continue
that
conversation.
We're
doing
this
in
a
very
transparent
and
deliberative
manner.
And
we
do
not
want
individuals
to
states
to
feel
that
they
were
not
being
inclusive.
So
we're
trying
to
have
that
conversation
to
get
the
feedback
to
get
the
comments
and
and
to
address
those.
That's.