federal disaster assistance agency
1Federal Emergency Management Agency — FEMA redirects here. For other uses, see FEMA (disambiguation). Federal Emergency Management Agency Agency overview Formed April 1, 1979 …
2Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany) — Federal Ministry of the Interior Bundesministerium des Innern Agency overview Formed 1949 Jurisdiction …
3Disaster research — deals with conducting field and survey research on group, organizational and community preparation for, response to, and recovery from natural and technological disasters and other community wide crises. The purpose behind this field of research… …
4Disaster Medical Assistance Team — For the baseball pitcher, see Daisuke Matsuzaka. A Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) is a group of professional and para professional medical personnel organized to provide rapid response medical care or casualty decontamination during a… …
5Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 — The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, Public Law 106 390, also called DMA2K, is U.S. federal legislation passed in 2000 that amended provisions of the United States Code related to disaster relief. The amended provisions are named after Robert… …
6Disaster Relief Act — A United States federal law passed in 1974 that laid down the process through which the president s declaration of a disaster triggers a system of financial and other assistance by the federal government to state and local governments. It was… …
7Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team — A Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team or DMORT is a team of experts in the fields of victim identification and mortuary services. DMORTs are activated in response to large scale disasters in the United States to assist in the… …
8Disaster Preparedness and Response Team — The Disaster Preparedness and Response Team is a non governmental organisation (NGO) established in Pakistan in November 2005 following the Pakistan Quake. However it was not registered as a voluntary agency until 2006[1]. It is composed of… …
9Disaster Relief Act of 1974 — The Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (Public Law 93 288) is a United States federal law that established the process of presidential disaster declarations. At one point, more than one hundred federal agencies were involved in handling disasters and… …
10federal coordinating officer — Appointed by the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, on behalf of the President, to coordinate federal assistance to a state affected by a disaster or emergency. The source and level of the federal coordinating officer will… …
