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Aftermath of Hurricane Response of the Federal goverment did the policy or laws change

...... The functions of the new FEMA included coordination of legacy Preparedness Directorate programs Readiness, Prevention and Planning (RPP) and the National Integration Center (NIC) furthers the collaborative agenda. The Department works toward these preparedness directives with the Office of the Under Secretary, Office of Infrastructure Protection, Office of Cyber Security and Communications (CS&C), Office of Risk Management and Analysis and Office of Intergovernmental Programs. Identification of risks, threats and vulnerabilities to infrastructure is the critical focal point of this collaboration
According to Walter Baumy, chief of the engineering division for the Army Corps of Engineers, there was a plan in place for handling a breach but in the wake of Katrinas velocity it proved all back-up strategies to be highly ineffective (Supply Chain Management). From an operational standpoint, FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers were incompetent in preparation of levees according to worst case scenario models despite of knowledge that cities along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico faced high probability of such an event. A level 4 hurricane, Katrina overshot hazard expectations of a level 3, and disagreements on accountability to maintenance and management of the levees and other high risk, public-private infrastructure such as major