The Federal Emergency Management Agency Office of Response and Recovery is the agency's largest division, responsible for coordinating federal disaster operations.
Within the office are the
In 1993, Administrator James Lee Witt reorganized FEMA with three functional directorates â the Mitigation Directorate, the Preparedness, Training and Exercises Directorate, and the Response and Recovery Directorate.
The Office of Response and Recovery was formed on October 1, 2009, under Administrator Craig Fugate, in the wake of the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-295), which consolidated the Department of Homeland Security Preparedness Directorate under FEMA. The office combined the Response, Recovery, Federal Coordinating Officer Program, and Logistics Management Directorates, and established a new Planning Division.