State All-Hazard Mitigation Plan Update
Mitigation Solutions Meeting
October 11, 2017
Agenda
1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Update on Mitigation Strategy Review
3. Goals and Objectives Review
4. Hazard Based Review of Actions
5. Mitigation Successes Activity
6. Wrap-up and Adjourn
Hazard mitigation is the effort to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters
Overview
Increase education and awareness
Build partnerships for risk reduction
Identify long-term, broadly-supported strategies
Align objectives
Identify implementation approaches
What Will a Plan Accomplish?
Plan Outline
1. Introduction
2. State Profile
3. Planning Process
4. Risk Assessment
5. Capability Assessment
6. Mitigation Strategy
7. Plan Maintenance
8. Plan Adoption
9. Appendices
Mitigation Strategy Evaluation
• Goal: general guideline that describes what the Commonwealth would like to achieve.
• Objective: specific and measurable strategies that must be implemented to achieve the identified goals.
• Action: more specific than an objective with identified responsible parties, timeframes, and potential funding sources.
Definitions
Mitigation Techniques
FEMA mitigation planning guidance identifies four mitigation techniques:
• Plans and Regulations
• Structure and Infrastructure Projects
• Natural Systems Protection
• Education and Awareness Programs
Plans and Regulations
Mitigation Techniques
• Comprehensive plans • Land use ordinances • Subdivision regulations • Development review • Building codes and enforcement • NFIP and CRS• Capital improvement programs • Open space preservation • Stormwater management
regulations and master plans
Structure and Infrastructure
Projects
Mitigation Techniques
• Acquisitions and elevations of structures in flood prone areas
• Utility undergrounding • Structural retrofits• Floodwalls and retaining walls • Detention and retention
structures • Culverts • Safe rooms
Mitigation Techniques
Natural Systems Protection
• Sediment and erosion control
• Stream corridor restoration
• Forest management • Conservation easements • Wetland restoration and
preservation
Mitigation Techniques
Education and Awareness Programs
• Radio or television spots • Websites with maps and
information • Real estate disclosure • Provide information/training • NFIP outreach• StormReady • Firewise Communities
Mitigation Action Evaluation
2013 Actions Categorized by Mitigation Action Type
MITIGATION TECHNIQUE TOTAL
ACTIONS
% TOTAL
Plans and Regulations 46 39%
Structure and Infrastructure Projects 9 8%
Natural Systems Protection 2 2%
Education and Awareness Programs 60 51%
GRAND TOTAL 117 100%
Mitigation Action Evaluation
Actions Categorized by Mitigation Technique
35%
9%
1%
55%
2010
39%
8%
2%
51%
2013
Local Plans andRegulations
Structure andInfrastructure
Natural SystemsProtection
Education andAwareness
Mitigation Action Evaluation
TOP 5 HAZARDS BY NUMBER OF ACTIONS
1. All Hazards 56
2. Flood 38
3. Levee Failure 5
4. Dam Failure 4
5. Environmental Hazards 4
Update on Action Review
Pennsylvania Plan Goals
Goal 1: Protect lives, property, environmental quality, and resources of the Commonwealth, including RL and SRL properties
Goal 2: Enhance consistent coordination, collaboration, and communications among stakeholders
Goal 3: Provide a framework for active hazard mitigation planning and implementation
Goal 4: Build legislative support and secure funding for mitigation efforts
Goal 5: Increase awareness, understanding, and preparedness across all sectors
Goal 1 59
Goal 218
Goal 312
Goal 4 13
Goal 515
Pennsylvania Plan Goals
Goal 1: Protect lives, property, environmental quality, and resources of the Commonwealth, including RL and SRL properties
Goal 2: Enhance consistent coordination, collaboration, and communications among stakeholders
Goal 3: Provide a framework for active hazard mitigation planning and implementation
Goal 4: Build legislative support and secure funding for mitigation efforts
Goal 5: Increase awareness, understanding, and preparedness across all sectors
Action 1-1a. Support new state-funded flood protection and prevention projects.
• Approximately $17.8 million in state funding released for flood protection/prevention projects
Action 1-1b. Support the maintenance of existing flood protection projects and construction.
• DEP monitored maintenance/construction of 110 projects for over 90 municipal sponsors
Action 1-1e. Support criteria to prioritize communities with severe repetitive and repetitive loss properties for available mitigation grant funding.
• PEMA identified 110 high priority communities subject to flooding
Goal 1: Results
Action 1-1g. Incorporate prioritizing of SRL and RL property mitigation into the PEMA-HM strategy and the Administrative Plan post-flood-related disaster.
• PEMA prioritizes RL and SRL projects during grant review.
• Accomplished through FEMA-4099-DR (PA Hurricane Sandy) and FEMA-4149-DR (PA – Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding, 10/1/13).
Action 1-1h. Include the targeting of SRL and RL structures for mitigation in the mitigation strategies section of multi-jurisdictional or county §322 plan with SRL or RL properties.
• RL and SRL properties are identified in all updated County or multi-jurisdictional plans
Goal 1: Results
Action 1-3b. Review state practices for floodplain management and consider appropriate opportunities to address multiple hazards and to encourage mitigation of state-owned or regulated facilities through a similar mechanism.
• DGS floodplain policies and regulations were written
Action 1-3c. Encourage mitigation of private sector infrastructure through technical assistance, education, demonstrations, etc.
• Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) Critical Infrastructure/ Key Resource (CI/KR) Unit educates and informs throughout the Commonwealth
• GOHS provides outreach to Level 1 and 2 facilities
Goal 1: Results
Action 1-4a. Support the sustainment and enhancement of Commonwealth fusion centers.
• PSP Pennsylvania Criminal Intelligence Center (PaCIC) won 3 national fusion center awards
Action 1-4e. Complete flood inundation mapping, like completed for Harrisburg, for additional high risk and high population centers.
• Flood inundation mapping underway for 100 miles of the Susquehanna River (2017 est. completion)
Action 1-5a. Re-examine impacts of federal levee guidance and identify necessary actions.
• 46 levees are inspected under USACE's Inspection of Completed Works Program
Goal 1: Results
Action 1-5c. Develop emergency action plan guidelines for flood protection projects to assist project sponsors with developing project specific EAPs including inundation maps.
• DEP Levee and Floodwall Guidance Document finalized in 2013
Action 1-5d. Identify and work with local sponsors of state levee systems, given an unacceptable or minimally acceptable rating, to bring them back up to acceptable rating.
• 17 levee improvement projects completed with state and federal funding sources
Goal 1: Results
Action 1-6a. Develop and deliver a workshop on building code implementation.
• DCED contracts with PA Municipal League to deliver the PA Construction Codes Academy
• 268 classroom courses held in addition to live/archived webinars and self-guided online training
• 8,117 people received training
Action 1-7c. Evaluate and enforce appropriate remediation of dams.
• As part of the Dam Safety Program, DEP enforced or provided assistance for approximately 55 dam remediation projects
Goal 1: Results
Action 1-8a. Continue to track floodplain management ordinance information including adopted building code(s), other relevant ordinance(s), code(s), regulation(s), etc., and the incorporation of any more restrictive requirements
• PEMA/DCED joint letter to Suspended or Non-Participating NFIP municipalities has resulted in municipal re-engagement
Goal 1: Results
Action 1-8b. Conduct effective outreach with municipalities to explain value of floodplain ordinances and adopting more restrictive requirements.
• DCED through PA Municipal League delivers training and municipal ordinance updates to municipalities
• Approximately 718 floodplain ordinances adopted
Action 1-12b. Improve the accuracy of geo-locational data on RL and SRL properties by researching matches for properties with incomplete and/or out-of-date addresses based on rural road designations that have changed.
• Properties are updated during FEMA Community Assistance Visits
Goal 1: Results
Action 1-13b. Complete FEMA Form AW-501 for each mitigated property and provide to FEMA through FEMA database or submittal to Region III upon project close-out.
• Municipalities work with PEMA to complete and submit FEMA Form AW-501 for mitigated properties
Action 1-14a. Identify cooperative funding opportunities with DEP for natural system protection projects
• 15 – 20 stream restoration and stabilization projects completed annually using DEP Stream Improvement Program
• DEP Stream Improvement Program used as match for NRCS Emergency Watershed Protection funding
Goal 1: Results
Action 1-5d: Identify and work with local sponsors of state levee systems, given an unacceptable or minimally acceptable rating, to bring them back up to acceptable rating.
• Per DEP, consider deleting since Action 1-1.b addresses all flood protection projects.
Action 1-10b: Fully characterize coal ash basin inundation zones, rank hazards, and develop mitigation actions.
• Per DEP, CCR regulations required to address action are complete; all state sites have been evaluated and are on an inspection schedule
Goal 1: Remove Actions
Action 1-11a: Identify impacts and consequences of Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction operations.
• Per DEP, TENORM (technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material) study complete. Little potential for harm to workers or the public from radiation exposure due to oil and gas.
Goal 1: Remove Actions
Action 1-2c: Identify Section 406 projects and increase 404 funding.
• Added during 2015 review
Action 1-4f: Develop Risk profile, capability analysis and mitigation actions for new hazards of cyber-attack and animal disease.
• Added during 2015 review
• Profile as two different hazards per 2016 review
Goal 1: New/Modify
Pennsylvania Plan Goals
Goal 1: Protect lives, property, environmental quality, and resources of the Commonwealth, including RL and SRL properties
Goal 2: Enhance consistent coordination, collaboration, and communications among stakeholders
Goal 3: Provide a framework for active hazard mitigation planning and implementation
Goal 4: Build legislative support and secure funding for mitigation efforts
Goal 5: Increase awareness, understanding, and preparedness across all sectors
Action 2-1a. Identify and prioritize critical government facilities and infrastructure that require back-up systems.
• Critical facilities latitude/longitude data collected
• Generator requirements identified through the Emergency Power Facility Assessment Tool
• FEMA and PEMA sponsored a generator course in 2015
Action 2-1b. Conduct outreach to privately-owned businesses and infrastructure that provide critical services in post-disaster situations to encourage them to develop COOP or Business Recovery Plans.
• Outreach to owners of CI/KR conducted annually by GOHS and Task Forces
Goal 2: Results
Action 2-2b. Silver Jackets work to identify current policies, plans, regulations, and laws that should include mitigation.
• PA Silver Jackets Interagency Flood Mitigation Program Guide updated in 2015
Action 2-3c. Develop data-sharing protocols.
• Data sharing protocols established and sent to local jurisdictions
Goal 2: Results
Action 2-3e. Improve electronic data sharing between municipalities, BHP and PEMA to ensure statewide data remains current on historic properties and may be used for risk analysis.
• PA SHPO shares cultural resource data with county planners
• PA SHPO, PEMA, and counties promote partnership and funding opportunities for collecting and updating cultural resource data
Action 2-4a. Maintain planning, emergency management, and GIS/data management contacts lists and expand contacts to include conservation districts
• State Geospatial Coordinating Board (GeoBoard) established within OA: advise on geospatial issues, develop uniform data standards, coordinate cross sector
Goal 2: Results
Action 2-4c. Involve appropriate county mitigation plan team members in hazard mitigation implementation activities.
• FEMA Mitigation for Emergency Managers (G-393) courses taught; one FEMA Mitigation Planning for Local and Tribal Communities (G-318) course held per year
Action 2-5a. Improve cooperation/ coordination of agencies with real time data (gauge station data, program availability, etc.).
• PEMA knowledge center hazard mitigation buildout complete in 2017.
• HMGP DR-4099 virtual warning project in Huntingdon, Dauphin, and Lancaster counties complete in 2016.
• DHS Special Event reporting conducted in 2015 for the Papal visit to Philadelphia.
Goal 2: Results
Action 2-5b. Reach out to agencies that were invited but did not participate in 2013 planning process.
• ___ new organizations participated in the annual mitigation action review and update to the state plan, increasing participation to over ____ agencies/organizations
Action 2-5c. Identify strategic locations to deploy USACE Power Teams after a disaster.
• Luzerne County Power Team visits conducted at pumping stations and other critical sites
Goal 2: Results
Develop Actions for New Hazards consistent with Goal 2 - Enhance stakeholder coordination, collaboration and communication
• Building and Structure Collapse
• Climate Change
• Cyber-Terrorism
• Mass Food/Animal Feed Contamination
• Opioid Addiction Response
Goal 2: New/Modify Actions
Pennsylvania Plan Goals
Goal 1: Protect lives, property, environmental quality, and resources of the Commonwealth, including RL and SRL properties
Goal 2: Enhance consistent coordination, collaboration, and communications among stakeholders
Goal 3: Provide a framework for active hazard mitigation planning and implementation
Goal 4: Build legislative support and secure funding for mitigation efforts
Goal 5: Increase awareness, understanding, and preparedness across all sectors
Action 3-1a. Maintain a comprehensive list of relevant regional agencies, including Councils of Government (COGs), River Basin Commissions, and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs).
• PA Silver Jackets have developed a comprehensive list of relevant regional planning agencies
Action 3-1c. Assess and identify locations where regional coordination between local HMPs would be beneficial to achieving efficiencies in mitigation efforts.
• Regional coordination was critical to developing the evacuation route and sheltering strategy as part of the State System DRU updates
Goal 3: Results
Action 3-1d. Continue to support Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) in its multi-hazard school planning efforts.
• The Pennsylvania All-Hazards Safe Schools Planning Toolkit was developed in 2013
Action 3-2a. Maintain and improve Pennsylvania’s Hazard Mitigation Planning and Project Toolkit and related training, including Standard Operating Guide, Plan Builder, Library and other tools.
• All Hazard Mitigation Plan updates are prepared using Pennsylvania’s Standard Operating Guide
Goal 3: Results
Action 3-2b. Assist communities and counties in identifying funding streams to support the implementation of mitigation projects.
• A total of 20 Hazard Mitigation Plans and 60 mitigation projects were funded
Action 3-2c. Update training courses regarding planning, project tools, as well as FEMA eGrantstrainings.
• Briefings provided at quarterly meeting and some training is available online (FEMA IS-30, IS-31, IS-32)
Action 3-2f. Explore funding for county EMAP compliance.
• Chester County EMAP accreditation (2014)
• City of Philadelphia EMAP accreditation (2015)
Goal 3: Results
Modify Action 3-2a: Update the Standard Operating Guide to include the following new hazards:
• Building and Structure Collapse
• Climate Change
• Cyber-Terrorism
• Mass Food/Animal Feed Contamination
• Opioid Addiction Response
Goal 3: New/Modify Actions
Pennsylvania Plan Goals
Goal 1: Protect lives, property, environmental quality, and resources of the Commonwealth, including RL and SRL properties
Goal 2: Enhance consistent coordination, collaboration, and communications among stakeholders
Goal 3: Provide a framework for active hazard mitigation planning and implementation
Goal 4: Build legislative support and secure funding for mitigation efforts
Goal 5: Increase awareness, understanding, and preparedness across all sectors
Action 4-1a. Facilitate tours or visits to mitigation projects, or areas where mitigation efforts are needed to local and county officials and state legislators.
• PAFPM Villanova University Tour
• DRBC/Silver Jackets Tour in conjunction with Nuture Nature Center
• Weather Sphere Tour
• NFIP 101 session for legislators (2015, 2016)
• Muncy Resilience Project Walking Tour (2016): 23 people representing 14 agencies and organizations participated . Held in the Borough of Muncy, Lycoming County as part of the Resilient PA initiative.
Goal 4: Results
Action 4-1b. Develop and disseminate relevant information on hazard mitigation programs.
• Brochures on PDM, FMA and HMGP programs; NFIP; FEMA Risk MAP
• PA Silver Jackets developed the Interagency Flood Mitigation Program Guide; provided to 110 municipalities and 30 CRS communities
Action 4-1c. Document and share in-state success stories and best practices.
• PA Silver Jackets documented 15 Pennsylvania success stories
Goal 4: Results
Action 4-1f. Provide legislator webinar to explain disaster declaration and hazard mitigation funding process.
• Hazard mitigation information to gubernatorial transition team in November 2014
Action 4-2a. Expand working relationship with professional organizations.
• PEMA, DCED, PHMC, and DEP participated in the following conferences:
• Pennsylvania Association of Floodplain Managers
• County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania
• American Planning Association Pennsylvania Chapter
• Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors
Goal 4: Results
Action 4-2b. Encourage PA-based professional organizations, with emphasis on inviting PA Association of Floodplain Managers (PAFPM) participation, to be involved in the Silver Jackets Program.
• PA Association of Floodplain Managers (PAFPM)
• Keystone Emergency Management Agency (KEMA)
• American Rivers Organization (ARO)
• Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC)
• Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC)
• Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin(ICPRB)
Action 4-2d. Develop a working relationship with private insurance and financial sector companies.
• FEMA and DCED convene a meeting with the PA Department of Insurance annually
Goal 4: Results
Action 4-3b. Assist county and regional planning organizations to integrate preservation priorities into plans for economic growth, revitalization, natural resource, hazard mitigation and emergency management planning.
• PA SHPO developed Flood-Prone Historic River Town Profiles
• Disaster Planning for Historic Properties Initiative Phase 1: identified hundreds of historic resources in 4 counties impacted by Hurricane Sandy (Bedford, Cameron, Monroe, and Philadelphia)
• Phase 2: Completion of the Pennsylvania River Town Historic District Survey and Assessment report (2017) to evaluate and prioritize historic districts in the SFHA
Goal 4: Results
Action 4-3b. Assist county and regional planning organizations to integrate preservation priorities into plans for economic growth, revitalization, natural resource, hazard mitigation and emergency management planning. (cont.)
• USACE National Nonstructural Flood Proofing Committee visited 25 historic buildings in Philadelphia to assess tidal flooding vulnerability, storm surge, sea level rise.
• Lycoming County Planning & Development and MuncyBorough working with several entities/agencies to establish a Center for Resilience in an historic building.
• PA SHPO staff participate in the PA Culture Resilience Network and are available to provide technical assistance to local, regional, and state agencies/organizations
Goal 4: Results
Action 4-2e. Conduct outreach to utilities for ideas to mitigate damage to lines caused by hazard outside the easements or rights of way.
• Added during 2015 review
Action 4-2f. Conduct Outreach with PUC and DECD to identify funding for sinkhole mitigation.
• Added during 2015 review
Goal 4: New/Modify Actions
Action 4-1e. Press for Act 166 and 167 funding to be allocated.
• No funding appropriated by the PA legislature since state FY 2009-10. Grant funding queue includes approximately $1,000,000 in reimbursement applications pending.
Action 4-4a. Consider tax incentives and bonds for mitigation.
• Expand Measure of Success: Promote and gain approval for a tax free mitigation day were people may purchase items like generators tax free.
Goal 4: New/Modify Actions
Pennsylvania Plan Goals
Goal 1: Protect lives, property, environmental quality, and resources of the Commonwealth, including RL and SRL properties
Goal 2: Enhance consistent coordination, collaboration, and communications among stakeholders
Goal 3: Provide a framework for active hazard mitigation planning and implementation
Goal 4: Build legislative support and secure funding for mitigation efforts
Goal 5: Increase awareness, understanding, and preparedness across all sectors
Action 5-1d. Conduct a public information campaign through various media outlets.
• PSP/OHS 'See Something; Send Something' PSA phone application
• SRBC Sandy Phone application to capture photos and show damage and need
• Ready PA mobile phone application launched
• DCED - Marketing and Tourism newsletter and municipal statistics e-mail blasts.
Action 5-1f. Collaborate with non-profit, non-governmental and civic organizations to help inform their constituents about hazard mitigation.
• PEMA VOAD lead invited to PA Silver Jackets webinars and meetings
Goal 5: Results
Action 5-1g. Collaborate with higher education institutions to incorporate hazard mitigation into relevant curricula.
• Shippensburg University and Bloomsburg University identified as candidate institutions
Action 5-1k. Increase Pennsylvania participation in the CRS program through a State education strategy.
• FEMA Region III participated in outreach as part of several County HMP updates
• FEMA Region III CRS pre-checklist used in Pennsylvania
• CRS included in all DCED presentations
Goal 5: Results
Action 5-2a. Conduct one meeting annually in each region of the state targeting RL and SRL community officials who serve as HMA grant sponsors.
• USACE 2017 Non-structural workshops conducted in Erie Butler, Allegheny, and Montgomery counties
• Targeting Central Area via PA Silver Jackets in 2018
Action 5-2c. Use the RL/SRL marketing and implementation program successes in PA communities (e.g., Bucks, Lycoming Counties) as a platform for outreach efforts to other RL/SRL communities.
• Success stories included in SJ Buzz, PSATS, and PA Boroughs Association publications
Goal 5: Results
Action 5-1a: Develop and provide presentations on hazard mitigation programs and sponsor conference booths (exhibits).
• Similar to Action 4-2a: Expand working relationship with professional organizations.
Goal 5: Remove Actions
Action 5-2b. Assist municipalities with direct mailings to SRL property owners.
• Modify or Remove Action: FEMA HQ sends mailings directly to SRL property owners
Action 1-4f: Develop Risk profile, capability analysis and mitigation actions for new hazards of cyber-attack and animal disease.
• Added during 2015 review
• Profile as two different hazards per 2016 review
Goal 5: New/Modify Actions
Goals and Objectives Review
Pennsylvania Plan Goals
Goal 1: Protect lives, property, environmental quality, and resources of the Commonwealth, including RL and SRL properties• 1.1: By 2016, reduce flood-related losses (with an emphasis on
reducing repetitive loss and severe repetitive loss properties by 5%) through promotion of the Commonwealth’s flood protection program through county, state, and federal partners.
• 1-2: Increase by 5% the number of projects implemented by the Commonwealth that will mitigate the most vulnerable structures against hazards by 2016.
• 1-3: Identify and work toward implementation of 5 feasible and cost-effective projects related to the mitigation of critical buildings, state facilities, and infrastructure.
• 1-4: Identify projects related to advanced warning within the Commonwealth by 2016.
Pennsylvania Plan Goals
• 1-5: By 2020, minimize risk to communities posed by levee structures by increasing compliance of all levees with National Levee Safety Program standard, focusing on planning and certification
• 1-6: By 2016, provide outreach and training opportunities for local building code enforcers by 500 individuals within the Commonwealth.
• 1-7: Increase coordination, prioritization, and funding availability to address community needs for dam hazards with special emphasis on inundation zone evaluation by 2016.
• 1-8: Encourage aggressive enforcement of floodplain and storm water management ordinances and other all-hazards regulations within the Commonwealth to reduce losses in high risk areas.
• 1-9: Promote increased implementation of urban-wild land interface mitigation projects by local communities by 2016.
• 1-10: Enhance Commonwealth efforts to address mine/quarry related hazards by increasing inter-agency cooperation.
• 1-11: Enable the Department of Environmental Protection to fully characterize hazard issues from Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction operations and explore mitigation options by 2016.
Pennsylvania Plan Goals
• 1-12: Manage all Repetitive Loss and Severe Repetitive Loss databases, providing updates to FEMA at least annually in order to more efficiently identify properties to be mitigated.
• 1-13: Compare properties within the Commonwealth that are known to have been mitigated with the FEMA-provided data sets for SRL and RL properties on an annual basis, and complete FEMA Form AW-501 to support update of the FEMA SRL and RL property databases.
• 1-14: Promote Natural System Protection mitigation in the Commonwealth between 2013 and 2016.
Pennsylvania Plan Goals
Goal 2: Enhance consistent coordination, collaboration, and communications among stakeholders• 2-1: Promote development of COOP and COG plans for critical
infrastructure within the Commonwealth, focusing on water treatment, water supply, and critical goods and services suppliers.
• 2-2: Promote integration of mitigation goals, objectives, and actions where appropriate in other federal, state and local planning initiatives by 2016.
• 2-3: Support Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency in developing mitigation data strategies for decision-makers by 2015.
• 2-4: Identify local Hazard Mitigation Officers and increase participation by local community representatives in the Commonwealth’s Mitigation Planning Team by 50% between 2013 and 2016.
• 2-5: Continue to support coordination between mitigation, planning, preparedness, and response personnel throughout the Commonwealth to ensure effectiveness in all-hazard mitigation planning.
Pennsylvania Plan Goals
Goal 3: Provide a framework for active hazard mitigation planning and implementation• 3-1: Identify opportunities for regional organizations, businesses, and
universities to be engaged in hazard mitigation planning.
• 3-2: Enable the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency to encourage each participating jurisdiction to secure funding and initiate one mitigation action by 2016.
Pennsylvania Plan Goals
Goal 4: Build legislative support and secure funding for mitigation efforts• 4-1: Provide opportunities for education of all State, county and local
government officials and legislators about hazard risk and mitigation by Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and County Emergency Management Agencies by 2016.
• 4-2: By 2013, expand working relationships with at least two volunteer and professional organizations to improve mitigation efforts within the Commonwealth.
• 4-3: Identify statutory, regulatory or other barriers to completing mitigation efforts within the Commonwealth, and leverage support against these barriers to implement mitigation actions by 2016.
• 4-4: Encourage inclusion of at least 5 relevant mitigation projects in the Commonwealth’s Capital Improvement Program by the next plan revision.
Pennsylvania Plan Goals
Goal 5: Increase awareness, understanding, and preparedness across all sectors• 5-1: Support all-hazards mitigation and preparedness programs to
educate private and public stakeholders, academia, government employees and elected officials on the hazards pertinent to the Commonwealth.
• 5-2: Prioritize outreach efforts that will result in a 10% increase in RL and SRL related grant applications between 2013 and 2016.
Hazard Based Review of Actions
Pennsylvania State HMP Update
The Natural Hazards planned for the 2018 update include:
• Landslide
• Lightning Strike
• Pandemic
• Radon Exposure
• Subsidence, Sinkhole
• Tornado, Wind Storm
• Wildfire
• Winter Storm
• Coastal Erosion
• Drought
• Earthquake
• Extreme Temperature
• Flood, Flash Flood, Ice Jam
• Hail Storm
• Hurricane, Tropical Storm, Nor'easter
• Invasive Species
Pennsylvania State HMP Update
The Human-made Hazards planned for the 2018 update include:
• Levee Failure
• Mass Food/Animal Feed Contamination
• Nuclear Incident
• Opioid Addiction Response
• Terrorism
• Transportation Accident
• Urban Fire and Explosion
• Utility Interruption
• Building and Structure Collapse
• Civil Disturbance
• Cyber-terrorism
• Dam Failure
• Environmental Hazards• Coal Mining
• Conventional Oil and Gas Wells
• Gas and Liquid Pipeline
• Hazardous Materials Releases
• Unconventional Wells
Building and Structure Collapse
Cyber-terrorism
Gas and Liquid Pipeline
Opioid Addiction Response
Climate Change
• Risk Assessment
hazards will integrate
climate change into
future condition profiles
as applicable.
• National Climate
Assessment, EPA,
NOAA, the State
Climatologist and Penn
State have excellent
resources.
New Guidance: Climate Change
PA 2015 Climate Change Action Plan
Two fundamental impacts:
1. More frequent extreme
weather events, including
large storms, periods of
drought, heat waves,
heavier snowfalls, and an
increase in overall
precipitation variability
2. Sea level rise and its
impact on communities and
cities in the Delaware River
Basin
PA CCAP Legislative Recommendations
1. Explore increasing the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard
2. Reinvest in rooftop solar
3. Improve the Act 129 program
4. Create a demand side management of natural gas program
5. Adopt the latest energy codes
6. Require change-of-ownership energy use disclosure
7. Continue to invest in programs such as Keystone HELP
8. Adopt the International Green Code Consortium
9. Provide additional resources for manufacturing energy
technical assistance
10. Create a Pennsylvania PACE program
11. Expand funding for TreeVitalize
12. Provide for funding opportunities that incentivize the
construction of manure digesters
Mitigation Successes Activity
What’s Next?
Date Event
April 18, 2018 PA HMP Draft Plan Review
Spring 2018 Submit Draft Plan to FEMA
Ernie Szabo
PEMA State Hazard Mitigation Planner
717-651-2159
Sarah Bowen
Baker Project Manager
215-430-5517
Contacts
THANK YOU!
State All-Hazard Mitigation Plan Update