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410 Department and Agency heads in the state of Georgia) and oversaw the development of the FEB's first 5-year Strategic Plan. • Directed various FEB programs such as the Combined Federal Campaign, Savings Bond Campaign and the Community Activities Board. • US Chamber of Commerce, National Security Group- assisted with National Security Issues, and vulnerabilities of Nations critical infrastructure. • Conceived and directed implementation of the, "FEMA/BellSouth Project Impact Executive Summit" held in March 2000 at the Carter Center in Atlanta, bringing together senior officers of 150 corporations and senior government officers (Governors and Presidential Cabinet Officers) to formulate policy furthering Emergency Management/Disaster Response and Recovery • Directed Federal Government response and recovery efforts for 54 Presidential disaster declarations • Authorized Federal fire-suppression grants for over 30 wildfire response efforts in the Southeastern United States. • Directed distribution of over$1 billion from the Congressional Disaster Relief Fund to disaster victims. • Oversaw disaster operations ranging in scale from small (less than $20 million in assistance and fewer than 100 people involved in recovery operations) to massive (over $1 billion in assistance and over 1,000 people involved in response and recovery operations). • Directed implementation of the United States' largest disaster recovery - housing buyout and relocation program after Hurricane Floyd in eastern North Carolina,involving purchase of over 1,100 homes in flood prone areas and relocation of occupants to safer homes outside known floodplains; Federal dollars spent in this program exceeded $400 million. Directed hazardous materials programs for the Southeastern U.S., including oversight of the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) and the Radiological Emergency Program (REP), both involving multimillion-dollar budgets and considerable Congressional. Strategic/Tactical Planning • Conceived and directed nation's first "Tornado Preparedness Summit"; Summit held in April 1998 because of over 100 deaths and massive devastation occurring from tornado disasters in the Southeast region during the first 3 1/2 months of 1998. • Created theme for Summit (subsequently adopted as theme for multiple national conferences) of, "A Safe Place to Go with Time to Get There"; focus on areas of tornado detection, warning systems and sheltering options; over 200 participants from 40 different Federal and state agencies, with output forming basis for national tornado preparedness policy. • Directed over $100,000 toward funding of Texas Tech/FEMA publication entitled, "Taking Shelter from the Storm" providing documentation on construction of tornado-proof "safe rooms". • Developed major initiative for BellSouth Corp. entitled the "Umbrella Protection Plan", which brought together elements of network redundancy and survivability with key product and service offerings in the field of disaster preparedness and business continuity, for market Disaster Program & Operations, Inc. Request for Proposals Disaster Debris Monitoring No. 18-04-03 37