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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

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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?