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GAO-11-51R 1 (2010-10-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaanvf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I AGAO AAc countabiity * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 October 29, 2010 The Honorable Frank Lautenberg Interim Chairman The Honorable George Voinovich Ranking Member Subcommittee on Homeland Security Committee on Appropriations United States Senate The Honorable David E. Price Chairman The Honorable Harold Rogers Ranking Member Subcommittee on Homeland Security Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Subject: FEMA Has Made Limited Progress in Efforts to Develop and Implement a System to Assess National Preparedness Capabilities This letter formally transmits a briefing we provided to your staff in draft form on September 29, 2010, and subsequent agency comments. We provided this briefing in response to a mandate in the conference report to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations Act, 2010. ' In accordance with the direction in that report and in consultation with your staff, we provided interim oral briefings in March and July 2010 and are reporting the results of our final briefing on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) efforts to assess national preparedness. Specifically, we are reporting on (1) the usefulness and limitations of the national preparedness capabilities data that have been collected to date through selected evaluation efforts as described by FEMA, and (2) the extent to which FEMA has made progress in its national preparedness capability assessment efforts since we last reported on this issue in April 2009.2 To conduct this work, we analyzed information, such as system user guides and project plans for six of FEMA's 1 H.R. Rep. No. 111-298, at 109-110 (Conf. Rep.). The conference report accompanied the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010, Pub. L. No. 111-83, 123 Stat. 2142 (2009). 2 GAO, National Preparedness: FEMA Has Made Progress, but Needs to Complete and Integrate Planning, Exercise, and Assessment Efforts, GAO-09-369 (Washington, D.C.: Apr. 30, 2009). GAO-11-51R FEMA Capabilities Assessments Page I

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