I think, Senator, what I would hope to see is--in part because there will be money available, that will itself incentivize more thinking at the local level about what they should be doing in terms of pre-disaster mitigation.
Secretary Napolitano discusses the expected impact of increased funding on local disaster mitigation efforts.
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