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US Army Corps of Engineers BUILDING STRONG ®

®. Life-Cycle Flood Risk Management  Getting Comfortable with Multiple Protection Mechanisms. Alex C. Dornstauder Deputy Director

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US Army Corps of Engineers BUILDING STRONG ®

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  1. ® Life-Cycle Flood Risk Management  Getting Comfortable with Multiple Protection Mechanisms Alex C. Dornstauder Deputy Director Office of Homeland Security U.S. Army Corps of Engineers December 9, 2010 US Army Corps of Engineers BUILDING STRONG®

  2. Life-Cycle Risk Management

  3. Shared Flood Risk Management “ Buying Down the Risk “ Initial Risk Outreach Federal / State / Local Natural Storage Federal / State / Local Structural Federal / State / Local Non – Structural Federal / State / Local Risk Contingency Plans Federal / State / Local / Individual Building Codes State / Local Zoning Local Insurance Individual / NFIP Residual Risk All Stakeholders contribute to reducing risk !

  4. National Flood Risk Management

  5. Silver Jackets Inter-Agency Flood Risk Management • State-Led • State sets priorities for Interagency Federal support • Collaborative • Leverage resources: talent, data, funding • Facilitate integrated Post-Disaster solutions • Continuous, not project-specific • Life-Cycle Risk Reduction • Watershed Perspective • State teams facilitate regional, state-to-state flood risk management Active Inter-Governmental Flood Risk Management Team Fully Signed Charter Ongoing Effort to Develop Team As of: 6 DEC 2010

  6. Objectives and Actions • Synchronize Internal Programs and Activities • With external partners, align, coordinate, and leverage FRM activities at a national scale • Strengthen State and Regional Partnerships • Risk-Based Inspection and Assessment • Enable Risk-Reducing Mitigation by Managing and Aligning Existing Programs • Update Flood Emergency, Flood Fighting, and Rehabilitation to Account for Life-Cycle • Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience ( CIPR ) • Collaborate Risk Management with International Partners

  7. Case Study : Indiana Inundation Study • Joint development of flood inundation model using: • NWS flood predictions • USGS gage data • USACE depth damage curves • FEMA’s HAZUS data • Create real-time model views of flood inundation areas and depths of flooding • This model is being used by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to manage and mitigate flood impacted areas and emergency response planning for NWS flood forecasts

  8. Case Study: Louisa #11, Iowa • Non-structural alternative to proposed structural repair • Required cooperation of levees public sponsor, county and state mitigation agencies, USACE, and NRCS • Combined over 300 acres of NRCS flood plain easements with significantly reduced structural repairs • 1200 acres of formerly protected area returned to floodway • RESULT: • Improved environmental habit • Increase flood storage capacity • Continued protection of important state road HOWEVER, similar efforts in other areas of IA and IL could not be completed, as post-event time was not sufficient - need support for pre-planning through Silver Jackets

  9. Revising Executive Order 11988on Floodplain Management • Draft Revised EO 11988 submitted to Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) summer 2009 • Draft revision does not represent the Administration’s position • Federal Interagency Floodplain Management Task Force ( FIFM-TF ) re-established in early 2010 • FIFM-TF developing a 5-year work plan which will consider the need and sequencing for revising EO 11988 • Work plan will be based on existing federal government floodplain management activities, programs, executive task forces and orders, and input from listening sessions • Discussions ongoing to decide if EO 11988 will be revised

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