The presidential council studying an overhaul of the Federal Emergency Management Agency will present its final report at a public meeting on Dec. 11, according to an announcement Wednesday in the Federal Register.
The report by the 13-member FEMA Review Council is expected to guide President Donald Trump’s decisions around the future of the national disaster agency, which he has criticized as slow and inefficient. Among the issues being considered by the administration is moving FEMA’s Washington headquarters to Texas, a proposal that was first reported by POLITICO’s E&E News.
The council, led by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, will present a draft of the final report at the December meeting before voting on it. The council has held a series of field hearings since it formed in April and has received extensive written testimony. Those public comments will be presented in summary at the meeting.
Noem edited a 160-page draft of the report down to about 20 pages, according to news reports.
