About Region X

John Pennington
Regional Director

Tammy Doherty
Deputy Regional Director

Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal Regional Center
130 228th Street, SW
Bothell, WA 98021-9796

Tel: 425-487-4600
Fax: 425-487-4622

Mike Howard
Public Affairs Officer: 425-487-4610
Fax: 425-487-4690

Joyce Mills
Secretary for the Regional Director: 425-487-4604

Serving: Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington

The Federal Regional Center (FRC) is located in Bothell, Washington, six miles from Seattle's northern city limit. The Region employs 85 full-time employees, and can draw on a cadre of over 300 Disaster Assistance Employees (DAEs) or "reservists" during a Presidential Disaster Declaration.

FEMA Region X administers the federal emergency preparedness, damage prevention, and response and recovery programs to Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. FEMA provides pre-disaster and post-disaster assistance to minimize the loss of life, and reduce damage and economic loss from natural and technological hazards. In both pre-disaster and post-disaster efforts, FEMA works in close partnership with State emergency management agencies.

Constructed on the site of a decommissioned Nike missile site, the Bothell FRC is one of six similar operations centers built during the late 1960s. Total cost of design, construction, etc. was $1,860,000 (estimated cost of constructing a similar building in 1983 was over $25 million, and the cost today would easily exceed $40 million). The building itself is a subterranean office structure designed to be reasonably survivable in the event of foreseeable natural or man-made disasters.

Regional organization includes five directorates, or divisions:

• Office of the Regional Director (R10-ORD)
  Federal Coordinating Officers
  Public Affairs Office
  Congressional Affairs Office
  Intergovernmental
  
  
• Office of National Preparedness Division (R10-ONP)
  
  
• Flood Insurance and Mitigation Division (R10-FIM)
  Community Mitigation Programs Branch
  Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Branch
  National Flood Insurance
  
  
• Response and Recovery Division (R10-RR)
  Response Branch
  Recovery Branch
  
  
• Administration and Resource Planning Division (R10-ARP)
  Administrative Services Branch
  Information Systems Branch
  Training, Exercises & Evaluation Branch