a legislative fix, i'm sure mr. thompson and i can draft something different. now that it's happened, i think it's going to happen again. it may see it more. it's really important that the initial assessment report that was done in september of 2020 about covid, hasn't been update ed. it you tell me the initial assessment report? do you plan to update it? >> so fema did an initial report prior to me getting here that really started to capture what i would call the initial lessons learned from our response. we're undergoing a more thorough assessment of the overall response as far as fema's role is concerned. so we will be releasing something when that is completed. >> do you have an idea of the timeline? >> i don't, but i'm happy to get back to you with where we're at in the progress. >> i think it's going to be important. there was a sea change nationwide. i want to make sure we're giving you the tools we need. i hope that's what we see. >> one of the witness was from my county. he testified to the struggles of many officials faced. he specifically testified t

so that's what i think what mr. thompson is talking about. and another example, lake ontario two catastrophic floods in the last four years and i think you know that because you're a regional administrator up there. it caused hundreds of millions of damage to lake front property and communities. yet, it didn't qualify for disaster declaration. so i would very much like to spend more time on this, perhaps, in another setting with the chairman and maybe you can sit down with us, because this is a very serious problem. obviously, the big communities, expensive communities, the beach front communities, when a hurricane hits, obviously, that's a disaster. but what happens to the small towns from an economic standpoint, the disasters are stunning and they can't recover from them. and i'd like to ask about that going forward, fema should have some flexibility with regard to that. >> ranking member katko, we really have an opportunity right now as we've learned so much in our response to covid-19 and seeing the impacts that our underserved communitie

thompson is talking about and another example, lake ontario, he's had two catastrophic floods in the last four years. catastrophic floods cross hundreds of millions of dollars of damage to the property, yet it didn't qualify for disaster reclamation so i would like to spend more time on this perhaps for the setting. this is a serious problem and big communities, expensive communities and beachfront communities when a hurricane hits, obviously that's a disaster what happens from the economic view, they can't recover so i'd like to talk more about that going forward because i think we must should have flexibility in respect to the . >> ranking member, we have an opportunity right now as we've learned so much in our response to covet seeing the impactsun underserved communities have, we do have the opportunity right now to reflect on that and see what we can do to incorporate better methodologies into the way we determine disasters going forward so i continue to have that discussion, i recognize that from my time in colorado as well where these rural communities have a harder time meeti