The State of Utah Department of Emergency Management (DEM) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have approved the Five County Association of Governments Multi-Jurisdictional Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan. Communities in the region are in the process of adopting the plan by resolution, and once that has taken place those individual entities will receive approval from FEMA making them eligible to apply for pre-disaster mitigation grant funding.

The approved plan can be found here for review.

A 30-day comment period will commence on Tuesday, March 29 and will end on Thursday, April 28. The Five County Association of Governments (AOG) is seeking comment on the draft of the region’s Multi Jurisdictional Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan. The purpose of this plan is to increase community resilience to identified natural hazards through local action.

The plan may also be viewed in person at the AOG office at 1070 West 1600 South, Building B, St. George, UT 84770 Monday through Friday from 9 am to 5 pm.

Please contact Alyssa Gamble at agamble@fivecounty.utah.gov or 435-673-3548 extension 117 with any questions, comments, or concerns.