Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan: 19. Mitigation Strategy

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Chapter 19:Mitigation Strategy 19.5 Discussion on Past Implementation Actions The 2005 hazard mitigation plan had a high proportion of implementation actions that were actually emergency response rather than hazard mitigation. Hazard Mitigation excludes emergency response actions after disaster has occurred: • Hazard Mitigation is action taken before a disaster to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their effects. • Emergency Operational Plans (EOP) exist with the objective to heighten preparedness and establish plans and responsibilities for responding to and recovering from the occurrence of a natural disaster. Thus, emergency response system improvements belong in the EOP accounting of resource and needs,rather than in a hazard mitigation plan. Thus, with the priorities for hazard mitigation updated, it was recognized that many of the 2005 plan actions were not actually hazard mitigation at all; it was decided that the 2010 Hazard Mitigation Plan should be exactly that, and rather than be forced to continue past misunderstandings because of"precedent,' should utilize more clarity of purpose and formulate implementation actions based on their current merits. This aligns better with the fact that the entire hazard mitigation plan has been re-written as discussed in Chapter 1 Appendix A. "To accommodate greater detail in hazard and risk assessment, as well as to more clearly identify hazard mitigation activities and their specific impacts, the Hawaii County Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan has been substantially reorganized... In short, this plan is a near-total re-write with the objective of greater clarity in addition to a major update of technical knowledge." The following table (former 2005 Plan Table 4-1) tracks the status of the past implementation actions,now superseded. I.D.No. Project Description Hazards Lead Agency Status 1.0 Administrative actions not requiring major funding: 1.1 Review the General Plan natural hazard policies All hazards Planning Being continued in current plan in light of this mitigation plan and American Planning Association suggested policies 1.2 Review the feasibility to adopt the 2003 Inter- Hurricane,Earthquake Department of In current plan to update with 2006 national Building Code Public Works IBC 1.3 Update tsunami evacuation maps Tsunami Data Systems w/ Being completed in current plan Civil Defense 1.4 Develop relocation policies for repetitive loss All hazards Civil Defense w/ Repetitive loss structure mitigation structures Public Works may be addressed other than by condemnation/relocation,which is cost-prohibitive,see current plan 1.5 Work with hotels,cruise ship industry,nursing Hurricane,Earthquake, Civil Defense This is an emergency operations homes,schools,hospitals,and shopping centers Tsunami action to develop emergency response plans 1.6 Study feasibility of participating in the Community Flooding Public Works Being completed in current plan Rating System 1.7 Study feasibility of including nonstructural earth- Earthquake Public Works Being incorporated in building code quake damage prevention into building code update per current plan 19-13 Hawaii County Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan