Flood Risk Management Update Stephanie Bray 12/10/2013
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US Army Corps of Engineers
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Flood Risk Management UpdateStephanie Bray
12/10/2013
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Federal Interagency Floodplain Management Task Force Membership
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Federal Interagency Floodplain Management Task Force
Current Activities►EO 11988 survey on effectiveness of
implementation►Enhancing technical assistance available to
coastal communities►Understanding costs and losses due to flood
events
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PPD-8 Components
National Preparedness System
National Preparedness Goal
National Planning Frameworks
Prevention Protection Mitigation Response Recovery
Federal Interagency Operational Plans
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Mitigation Framework Leadership Group
Federal Flood Risk Reduction Standard under development
Interagency team of subject matter experts participating in development
Effort will build off of the efforts of the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force and the President’s Climate Action Plan
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Delivering Inter-Agency Flood Risk Management
Silver Jackets
State-Led ( Voice of our Customers ) States set priorities for Interagency Federal support States can invite partners Feds cannot
Interagency Method of Delivery ( MOD ) Collaboration across agencies / levels of government Leverage resources: talent, data, funding Improve flood risk communication:
unified interagency message
Continuous, not project-specific
Strategic Life-Cycle Risk Mgmt
Watershed Perspective State teams facilitate
regional, state-to-state FRM
Partners
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Silver Jackets Interagency Projects Forty-one (41) FRM and LS Projects
FY11-13 Twenty-five (25) States completing projects $3.7M USACE investment leveraged
$4M from partners
Nineteen (19) Nonstructural Projects FY13-14 Nineteen (19) States completing projects $2M USACE leveraged against $1M from partners
Demonstrate Benefits of Interagency Approach Use existing authorities of multiple agencies Leverage resources among Fed, State, Local, Tribal Evaluate Outcomes, quantitatively and qualitatively
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Raise Awarenes
s
Assess Risk
Prompt Action
Reduce/ Manage
Risk
State
Local
OtherNOAA
FEMA
NWS
USGS
Distribution of FRM and LS Project Partner Leveraging
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Flood Risk Management – Silver Jackets Workshops
2013 Flood Risk Management –
Silver Jackets Webinar Week a
huge success► Over 400 people registered► Approximately 150 participated at any given time
2014 Flood Risk Management – Silver Jackets Workshop in planning process► Anticipated August 19-21, 2014 in Southbridge, MA
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Characterizing National Flood Risk
Characterize national flood risk for policy-oriented purposes, internally within USACE and then externally with partners
Demonstrate specific USACE contribution to achieved flood risk reduction
Characterize future flood risks Characterize national and regional risk
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Questions?