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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

4Photo by Don Mobley

Photo by Don Mobley

5Photo by Don Mobley

Photo by Don Mobley

6Photo by Don

Mobley

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House Elevations

Photo by Pennoni Associates, Inc.

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Elevation Underway

Photo by Pennoni Associates, Inc.

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Elevation Completed

Neshaminy Creek

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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

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Partners—

Success depends on all of us working together

Your NRCS State Conservationist:www.nrcs.usda.gov

Click on “State Offices”