Review the Current Plan

For plan updates, you should:

  • Locate your previous plan review from FEMA

It is important to start from your previous plan review from FEMA. This may be a “crosswalk” that has recommended revisions or a “Plan Review Tool.” If it is the Plan Review Tool, there will be a section with “Opportunities for Improvement” that you should use as you get started.

  • Use FEMA’s recommendations to strengthen your plan

Review the comments and feedback from the last review and use them as the starting point to strengthen your plan.

  • Incorporate any changes from the last 5 years

If your plan is an update, you should have been monitoring and evaluating the plan throughout the last 5 years; go back to those annual monitoring meetings or reports and incorporate changes you identified, like changes in leadership, in disaster activity, investments in mitigation, changes in development, and changes in regulations. In general, think about what went well with your past plan and what did not. Use those lessons to strengthen your planning process.

A Sample Blank Page of Tribal Mitigation Plan Review Tool: Appendix A: Section 1: Regulation Checklist and Section2: Strengths and Opportunities for Improvement. It is part of the Tribal Mitigation Plan Review Guide