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Life-Cycle Flood Risk Management

Getting Comfortable with Multiple Protection Mechanisms

Alex C. DornstauderDeputy DirectorOffice of Homeland SecurityU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

December 9, 2010

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Life-Cycle Risk Management

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Shared Flood Risk Management“ Buying Down the Risk “

Residual Risk

Outreach Federal / State / Local

Natural Storage Federal / State / Local

Structural Federal / State / Local

Non – Structural Federal / State / Local

Contingency Plans Federal / State / Local / Individual

Building Codes State / Local

Zoning Local

Insurance Individual / NFIP

Initial Risk

All Stakeholders contribute to reducing risk !

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National Flood Risk Management

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Inter-Agency Flood Risk ManagementSilver Jackets

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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