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Emergency Preparedness and Response: Natural Disasters and Severe Weather
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On emergency service stations and emergency response shelters, install solar with battery backup or emergency power inverters to provide at some electrical power in the event of a long-term outage.
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Empowering a resilient workforce for American Samoa
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Enable systems and techniques that reduce energy and conserve resources (e.g., graywater systems, green roofs, use of green energy technology)
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Encourage adoption of a higher level of protection along creeks than the current 100-year flood event to prepare for more severe storms in the future.
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Encourage and incentivize the use of pervious landscaped surfaces in new and existing development. Pervious, or permeable, surfaces help manage stormwater on-site and absorb less heat than impervious
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Encourage and install more reflective pavement or pavement coatings on roads and parking lots.
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Encourage and promote the use of vegetative buffers around streams, channels and water sources to absorb and manage runoff.
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Encourage building owners, developers and homeowners to install WaterSense appliances, showerheads and toilets to conserve water. Increasing water use
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Encourage commercial and industrial cooling tower system upgrades that decrease water use. Increasing water use efficiency can prevent or alleviate drought impacts. Cooling towers can be high volume water
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Encourage daylighting streams — restoring above-ground water flow to a stream that is diverted below ground — to reduce polluted runoff and address flash flooding.
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Encourage development in urban areas where public facilities and services exist or can be provided in an efficient manner. All development investment should be located outside of current and future flood
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Encourage employers to change workplace environments to reduce wildfire smoke and heat exposure. For example, adapt work hours, follow OSHA guidance and provide pop-up clean air shelters and appropriate
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Encourage farmers to adapt to seasonal changes. For example, farmers can shift to flood-tolerant crops and change plant dates to avoid wet periods.