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A Long Term Recovery Committee (LTRC) is established to help regions and/or communities recover from disaster. The LTRC often assists with the distribution of large donations. LTRCs become central work groups that help communities develop processes for how to recover.

See the FEMA guidance document:
http://www.fema.gov/txt/rebuild/ltrc/selfhelp.txt

FEMA refers to the LTRC process by several names, including the "Long-Term Community Recovery" (LTCR).

This what FEMA says:

"What is Long-Term Community Recovery?

"Long-term" refers to the need to re-establish a healthy, functioning community that will sustain itself over time.

Examples of long-term community recovery actions include:
• Providing permanent disaster-resistant housing units to replace those destroyed,
• Initiating a low-interest facade loan program for the portion of the downtown area that sustained damage from the disaster (and thus encouraging other improvements that revitalize downtown),
• Initiating a buy-out of flood-prone properties and designating them community open space, and
• Widening a bridge or roadway that improves both residents' access to employment areas and improves a hurricane evacuation route

The LTCR program should focus on development of a recovery plan that incorporates the post-disaster community vision and identifies projects that are aimed at achieving that vision. A community vision may have been identified prior to the disaster, but visions often change after a disaster. Disasters may even unveil new opportunities that were not considered earlier. Long-term community recovery provides an opportunity to put a community back together in an improved way.

LTCR is the process of establishing a community-based, post-disaster vision and identifying projects and project funding strategies best suited to achieve that vision, and employing a mechanism to implement those projects. Each community's LTCR program is shaped by the community itself, the damage sustained, the issues identified, and the community's post-disaster vision for the future.

Based on past efforts using consultants, LTCR is typically a 6 to 12 week intensive planning process setting the blueprint for community recovery after a disaster event. The length of time for your planning process will depend on the resources you have available and the amount of damage sustained. Your process will probably take longer unless the LTCR team can devote full time to this effort. In most cases, the LTCR plan should be kept to a tight time frame with tangible results to avoid public disillusionment with recovery efforts and to take advantage of the sense of community that usually follows a disaster. Keep in mind that this is not a typical strategic or master plan. This is a plan that should focus on recovery from the disaster. Many actions taken in the weeks immediately following a disaster will have long-term community impact. The LTCR program must be developed quickly in order to provide direction and focus to community rebuilding efforts. Timing is an important factor in LTCR."

Also, see:
"Disaster Assistance:
A Guide to Recovery Programs"
http://www.fema.gov/txt/rebuild/ltrc/recoveryprograms229.txt

"Policies for Guiding Planning for Post- Disaster Recovery"
www.fema.gov/pdf/rebuild/ltrc/fema_apa_ch3.pdf

For more documentation, go to:

www.fema.gov
search for "LTRC" and "LRTC"

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• Affiliations, Communities & Organizational Networks
• Category 8.0: Disaster Management Services, Process/Guidance Documentation & Services

• Category: Services, For Non-Profits (501c3 Orgs, etc)