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• Societal Implications: Selected Readings. Earthquake Hazards Reduction Series 14.
  Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC., June 1985, 171 p.
  Identifying Number(s): FEMA-84
  Keywords: Seismic design; Regulations; Costs; National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP); State government; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Design standards; Hazards; Mitigation; Safety; Local government; Building codes; Construction

• Landslide Loss Reduction: A Guide for State and Local Government Planning. Earthquake Hazards Reduction Series 52.
  Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC., August 1989, 60 p.
  Identifying Number(s): FEMA-182
  Keywords: ; Emergency plans; Methodology; Landslides; Ground movements; Geological processes; State government; Disasters; Resources; Hazards; Local government; Losses; Mitigation

• Seismic Retrofit Incentive Programs. A Handbook for Local Governments.
  Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC., August 1994, 246 p.
  Identifying Number(s): FEMA-254
  Keywords: ; Masonry; Emergency plans; California; Retrofitting; Local government; Land use; Cities; Financing; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Hazards; Legislation; Case studies; Seismic effects; Communities

• Promoting the Adoption and Enforcement of Seismic Building Code: A Guidebook for State Earthquake and Mitigation Managers.
  January 1998, 210 p.
  Identifying Number(s): FEMA-313
  Keywords: ; Seismic design; Enforcement; State government; Resources; Earthquake engineering; Organizations; Legislation; Local government; Building codes; Mitigation

• Lambright, W. H.
  Role of States in Earthquake and Natural Hazard Innovation at the Local Level: A Decision-Making Study.
  National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., December 1984, 338 p.
  Keywords: Decision making; Emergency preparedness; Nevada; California; State government; Disasters; Hazards; Government policies; South Carolina; Comparison; Local government; Japan; Earthquakes

• KCMR Dial-a-Ride Study: Report Number 4. Vehicles, Maintenance, Fare Collection.
  Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Washington, D.C., August 1976, 28 p.
  Keywords: Buses (Vehicles); Services; Wheel chairs; Kansas City (Missouri); Fare collection; Demand responsive dial a ride; Passenger transportation; Metropolitan areas; Kansas; Johnson County (Kansas); Dial a ride systems; Independence (Missouri); Specifications; Local government; Missouri; Paratransit; Maintenance; Suburban areas; Urban transportation

• Seismic Provisions of State and Local Building Codes and Their Enforcement.
  National Inst. of Standards and Technology (BFRL), Gaithersburg, MD. Structures Div.; Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC., May 1992, 368 p.
  Keywords: ; Seismic design; Earthquake resistant structures; Regulations; Enforcement; State government; Earthquake engineering; Surveys; Local government; Construction management; Building codes

• Elnashai, A. S.; Cleveland, L. J.; Jefferson, T.; Harrald, J.
  Impact of Earthquakes on the Central USA. New Madrid Seismic Zone Catastrophic Earthquake Response Planning Project. Final Phase 1 Report.
  Earthquake Engineering Research Inst., Berkeley, CA.; Construction Engineering Research Lab. (Army), Champaign, IL., September 2008, 936 p.
  Identifying Number(s): MAE-08-02
  Keywords: Emergency plans; New Madrid Seismic Zone; Seismic waves; Social impacts; Federal government; Investigations; State government; Earthquakes; Hazards; Asssessments; Local government; Response