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Local
Hurricane Mitigation Activities On Maui:
Maui
Civil Defense
The Maui Civil Defense Agency has responsibility for
administering and operating the various local, state,
and Federal civil defense programs for the County.
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Project
Impact - Maui
In April 1999 FEMA welcomes the County of Maui, to the
agency's Project Impact initiative - a national effort
to change the way America deals with disasters. The
program encourages communities to come together, assess
their vulnerabilities and implement strategies to prevent
or limit damage before disasters occur. Three common-sense
principles are the basis of Project Impact: mitigation
at the local-community level; participation by the private
sector; and long-term preventive measures.
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Department
of Public Works and Waste Management
To
protect the public's health, safety, property and environment
by developing and operating the County's infrastructure
and administering its building codes.
Mitigation
activities include:
- Adopting
the 1991 Uniform Building Code (UBC).
- Establishing
structural design requirements from lateral forces (wind,
earthquake). Varies depending on zone. Refer to maps
within the UBC.
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Center
for the Study of Active Volcanoes
The
Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes (CSAV) is a
training and outreach program established by the Hawaii
State Legislature in 1989. Located in the UH-Hilo Geology
Building, CSAV’s mission is to provide training and
information on volcanic and natural hazards that occur
in Hawaii and worldwide. Mitigation activities include:
Symposia for teachers for credit - brainstorm lesson
plans (science and preparedness), informal discussions
and lectures.
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Department
of Health, Solid and Hazardous Waster Branch
The mission of the Solid Waste Branch is to protect
Hawaii's lands from pollutants that endanger people
and the environment, and to rehabilitate contaminated
lands. To insure the environmentally sound and economically
cost effective management of all solid and hazardous
waste generated within the State through the promotion
of pollution prevention and waste minimization activities,
the development of proactive partnerships with both
generators and the regulated community and the prevention
of releases or threats of releases of petroleum, hazardous
substances, pollutants or contaminants into the environment
through aggressive enforcement of environmental laws
and regulations.
Mitigation
activities include:
- Model potential
debris generation and suggest BMP
- Create
one statewide plan, and provide a shell for each county
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- Work with
State Civil Defense to establish design requirements
to harden public school buildings.
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DBEDT,
Energy, Resources, and Technology Branch
The
Energy Resources and Technology Division of the Department
of Business, Economic Development and Tourism is responsible
for designing a plan to promote conservation of energy
and promotion of commercialization of Hawaii's sustainable
energy resources and technology to reduce the State's
high dependency on imported oil.
Mitigation
activities include:
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Survey of emergency Generators in Hawaii’s emergency
and Essential Seville facilities 9with FEMA)
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Phase 2 Assessment of Hawaii’s Emergency and Essential
Service Facilities having a requirement for emergency
generator support
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Hawaii Energy Strategy 2000 will report on project
results of recommendations based on the statewide,
two-part hazard, mitigation study of energy systems
vulnerabilities. The first part was completed by the
Office of Emergency Management, US Department of Energy
(9/96), and recommended actions to mitigate energy
system vulnerability to hurricanes, volcanic and seismic
events, and extreme winds. The USCOE report, the second
part, Coastal Hazard Mitigation Study for Energy and
Lifeline Facilities, is currently being finalized
for publication with FEMA.
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US Coast Guard
Mitigation
activities include:
- Have detailed
plans for hurricanes, tsunamis, etcetera - Each May
hold a statewide exercises and for contingency planning.
- April 1999
- with hold a cruise ship disaster exercise.
- Coast Guard
Auxiliary - educates small boaters on safety conducts
voluntary inspections.
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FEMA
Mitigation
activities include:
- Project
Impact
- Mitigation
Technical Assistance Programs
- Hazard
Mitigation Grant Program
- Community
Rating System
- HAZUS
- Advising
on building codes and flood plain management
- Helping
equip local and state emergency preparedness
- Coordinating
the federal response to a disaster
- Making
disaster assistance available to states, communities,
businesses and individuals
- Training
emergency managers
- Administering
the national flood and crime insurance program
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- Conduct
joint exercises
- with the
State Civil Defense
- Completed
Emergency Response Plan
- Conducted
“table top” exercise and a functional test with employees
- Increase
amount of fuel included in its rate base from 30 to
35 days - will propose in next rate-making proceeding
- Strongly
considering options to diversify fuel
- Joint Pole
committee
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American
Red Cross - Hawaii Chapter
American
Red Cross is a humanitarian organization, led by volunteers,
that provides relief to victims of disasters and helps
people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies.
Mitigation
activities include:
- Identify
shelter manages and train
- Community
outreach - family survival kit, emergency supply kit
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Structural Engineers Association of Hawaii
Mitigation
activities include:
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Quantitative criteria defining a minimum level of
structural capacity should be established to determine
structurally ‘unsafe’ buildings
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Technical assistance in developing an abatement ordinance
which balances hazard reduction and economic concerns
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