Amendment ID: S2591-3

Amendment 3

Consistency

Messrs. Pacheco, Cyr, Brady, Feeney, Welch and Lesser and Ms. L'Italien move that the proposed new text be amended in section 16, by inserting in proposed section 10 the following subsections:-

(d) There shall be an advisory group to assist the secretaries in developing, maintaining and implementing the integrated climate adaptation and hazard mitigation plan, in accordance and integrated with the requirements and intent of 44 CFR §201.4(b) and section 10. The planning process shall include coordination with other state agencies, appropriate federal agencies, interested groups, and be integrated to the extent possible with other ongoing state planning efforts as well as other adaptation and mitigation programs and initiatives. emphasizes the valuable role of collaboration among various sectors to ensure adaptation and mitigation capabilities continually develop and that comprehensive adaptation and mitigation includes strategies for all community systems. The advisory group shall consist of: the secretary of the energy and environmental affairs or a designee; the secretary of public safety and security or a designee; and up to 21 persons to be appointed by the secretary of energy and environmental affairs and the secretary of public safety and security, including but not limited to those agencies and stakeholders from sectors with expertise, mitigation capabilities and responsibility for: hazard data; climate projections and data; coastal zones and oceans; commercial, industrial and manufacturing activities; economic development; electric generation and transmission; floodplain management; ecosystem dynamics; emergency management; housing; health and social services; land use and development; municipal government; natural and cultural resources; freshwater systems; regional planning; transportation and built infrastructure; water supply and resources. Terms of the advisory group are as follows: (1) The secretary of energy and environmental affairs and the secretary of public safety and security shall jointly designate an appointee to serve as chair. (2) Non state agency members shall be appointed for terms of 3 years. The appointing authorities may fill any vacancy that occurs in an unexpired term. (3) The advisory group shall meet at least quarterly and at the discretion of the secretaries. The advisory group shall hold public meetings relative to matters within the jurisdiction of the adaptation management plan and shall make recommendations to the secretaries for developing, maintaining and implementing the plan. The secretaries shall consider the recommendation of the advisory group. (4) The advisory group shall advise the secretaries regarding the following: identifying (i) how the secretaries can support existing adaptation, resilience and hazard mitigation efforts of state agencies; (ii) how stakeholders can play an active role assisting the efforts of state agencies, regional planning agencies and municipalities; (iii) how efforts can be best integrated across the public and private sector to enhance adaptation, build resiliency and mitigation climate change in a complementary fashion.

(e) Within 24 months of adoption of the plan, all executive branch agencies shall revise those rules, regulations and guidelines identified in the integrated state hazard mitigation and adaptation plan to ensure consistency with that plan.