A top FEMA official announced his resignation Monday, 4 months after a background investigation derailed his nomination to lead the agency.
Jeff Byard served as the Associate Administrator for the Office of Response and Recovery at the Federal Emergency Management Agency .Byard served as the"senior-most executive over disaster response, recovery, logistics, and field operations" at FEMA and oversaw the agency during Puerto Rico's troubled recovery from the 2017 hurricanes.
There were 100 natural disasters declared by FEMA in the U.S. in 2019, down from 124 in 2018 and 137 in 2017.
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