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Federal Interagency Flood Risk Management Update

Stay informed on the latest activities and initiatives in flood risk management, including the development of the Federal Flood Risk Reduction Standard and collaboration across agencies. Learn about ongoing projects, workshops, and webinars aimed at reducing flood risks nationwide.

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Federal Interagency Flood Risk Management Update

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  1. Flood Risk Management UpdateStephanie Bray12/10/2013

  2. Federal Interagency Floodplain Management Task Force Membership

  3. 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

  4. PPD-8 Components National Preparedness Goal National Preparedness System National Planning Frameworks Prevention Protection Mitigation Response Recovery Federal Interagency Operational Plans

  5. 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

  6. Silver Jackets Delivering Inter-Agency Flood Risk Management Partners • 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

  7. Silver Jackets Interagency Projects Other State • 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 Assess Risk Local NOAA Distribution of FRM and LS Project Partner Leveraging Raise Awareness FEMA NWS USGS Prompt Action Reduce/ ManageRisk

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Questions?

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