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Emergency Management 3 IMMEDIATE ACTION
RECOMMENDATION
Texas should create a GIS database that contains all information that might be
needed during a disaster.
COMMENTS:
e Geographic information systems (GIS) consist of tools which can analyze, store,
manipulate, and display geographically referenced information, i.e. data identified
according to their locations.
- GIS played an important role in emergency response in New York after the World
Trade Center bombings.
- The consensus among GIS staff working in the New York disaster was that data col-
lection was the biggest challenge. GIS is widely used in New York, but determining
which agency had the most current information, gathering data and verifying it
proved to be difficult.
e In Texas, GIS is coordinated in Texas by the Texas Geographic Information Council
(TGIC), a data coordination and planning group made up of forty-one state agen-
cies, universities, and local or regional government associations.
- There is no single entitythat stores all of the data collected, nor do all members of
TGIC have databases.
- To better plan and respond to disasters in Texas, the Governor's Division of
Emergency Management should apply for an Emergency Management Performance
Grant from Federal Emergency Management Agency to expand its GIS resources.
LEGISLATION REQUIRED
No legislation is required to implement this recommendation.
FISCAL IMPACT
The.estimated increase in Federal Funds to implement this proposal would be
$260,000 for FY2003 and $228,000 for each following year. The state would have to
apply to the federal government during FY 2002 for grant money distributed during
FY2003. It would increase full-time employees at the Governor's Division of
Emergency Management by four.For more detail on the Texas War Relief Package go to http://www.window.state.tx.us/wrp/
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