… bureaucracy that can't make quick turnaround decisions on such things as granular as whether you can install a 24 inch culvert instead of a 16 inch culvert. And that's why The reform we need is focused on empowering local communities to have much more decision making and implementation authority. in executing the recovery. That takes oftentimes well over a year or two years. You simply can't have that done by folks not in the community. (01:31–01:43)
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Asserts that FEMA reform should empower local communities with more authority in recovery efforts.
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