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Association of State Floodplain Managers
Infrastructure: Fixes & FundingJune 10, 2009
Bruce A. JulianUSDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service
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Perspective—
• Over 2000 authorized watershed projects• All projects require a local sponsor• 11,000 flood control structures• >$1.5 billion in annual benefits• Flood mitigation, water conservation,
municipal/industrial water supply, water quality measures, fish & wildlife habitat
• >$1.4 billion in authorized, unfunded federal commitments
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NRCS Water Resources Program Tools
• Watershed Surveys & Planning
• Watershed Operations**
• Watershed Rehabilitation**
• Floodplain Easements** (Emergency Watershed Protection Program)
**Recovery Act Funding
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Funds this Fiscal Year:(millions)
FY-09 Reg. Approps $$
Recovery Act $$
Watershed Ops $24 $145
Watershed Rehab
$40 $50
Floodplain Easements
** $145
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Watershed Operations
• Structural and non-structural flood mitigation solutions
• Floodplain easements
• Projects with multiple solutions to flooding
• 100% federal share—cost of construction
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Watershed Rehabilitation
• >11,000 dams—many reaching their design life
• Change in hazard class
• Not eligible if sponsors failed to perform O&M
• 65% federal share of the total project cost
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Floodplain Easements
• >120,000 acres in the current portfolio• First national sign-up = over 4,200 applications,
$1.4 billion, competing for $145 million• Selected 289 projects, 36,000 acres, 36 states• Approx. 100% of the ag land value, 100% of the
restoration costs• Eligibility: damaged once in the last 12 months
or twice in the last 10 years• Dam breach zone