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County of Hawaii Multi Hazard Mitigation Plan Executive Summary 3. Utilize the best available data, science and technology to identify and communicate the risk exposure to hazards and ways to increase the planning area's capability to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the impacts of hazard events. 4. Promote and implement the retrofit, hardening, or replacement of at -risk structures and lifelines to increase community resilience. 5. Support hazard mitigation measures that promote and enhance natural processes and minimize adverse impacts on the ecosystem. 6. Research, develop, promote, adopt and enforce codes and standards that are affordable and feasible for life and property protection. 7. Establish and maintain partnerships among all levels of government, the private sector, community groups, and institutions of higher learning that improve and implement methods to protect life, property and the environment in the planning area. 8. Minimize impacts of hazard events on the economic drivers for the County. 9. Incentivize and implement mitigation measures for hazard risk and repetitive loss areas to address repairs, major alternations, development plans and practices. 10. Integrate local hazard mitigation plans with the general plan other local plans, and provide training and guidance to integrate and strengthen the linkages between the plans. 11. Advance community resilience through preparation, adoption, and implementation of state, county and local multi -hazard mitigation plans and projects. 12. Promote and implement mitigation measures such as fire breaks around communities and along roadways as needed to mitigate the risk of wildland fires. The County selected mitigation actions to work toward achieving the goals set forth in this plan update. Mitigation actions presented in this update are activities designed to reduce or eliminate losses resulting from natural hazards. The update process resulted in the identification of 31 mitigation actions for implementation, as listed in Table ES-2. The table shows two identified priorities for each action: priority for implementing the action and priority for pursuing grant funding. The working group developed an implementation and maintenance strategy that includes grant monitoring and coordination, a strategy for continued public involvement, a commitment to plan integration with other relevant plans and programs, and a recommitment from the County to actively monitoring and evaluating the plan over a five-year performance period. Full implementation of the recommendations of this plan will require time and resources. The measure of the plan's success will be its ability to adapt to changing conditions. Hawaii County will assume responsibility for adopting the recommendations of this plan and committing resources toward implementation. The framework established by this plan commits the County to pursue actions when the benefits of a project exceed its costs. The County developed this plan with extensive public input, and public support of the actions identified in this plan will help ensure the plan's success. TETRA TECH XXID