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2016 Local Solutions Eastern Regional Climate Preparedness Conference Baltimore, MD April 4-6, 2016

“Navigating the Stafford Act”

Panelist

Moderator: John Malueg, PE

Senior Principal Stantec

Manager for Resilient Programs

Kevin W. Geiger, AICP CFM

Senior Planner Two Rivers-Ottauquechee

Regional Commission

Kevin Snyder, Disaster

Recovery Coordinator FEMA Region III

Kürt Blømquist, Dir. Public Works & Emerg. Mgmt City of Keene, NH

2016 Eastern Regional Climate Preparedness Conference Baltimore, MD April 4-6, 2016


Navigating the

Stafford Act

Game: Disaster Management Cycle

Player: FEMA

Rules: Stafford Act

Strategy: Resilience

Outcome: Community

Navigating the Stafford Act 2016 Eastern Regional Climate Preparedness Conference

Baltimore, MD April 4-6, 2016


Preparedness

Response

Recovery

Mitigation


Preparedness

Response

Recovery

Mitigation RESILIENCE

2015 Presidential Declarations

• Total - 44

• 34 States

• Types:

• Severe Storms – 39

• Flood – 19

• Tornado - 12

• Snow and Ice - 12

• Wind – 14

• Landslide / Mudslide - 11


Natural Shocks

• Floods

• Tornadoes

• Droughts

• Snow/Ice Storms

• Heat

• Climate change

• More frequent/severe weather

• Sea-level rise

Player: Federal

Emergency

Management Agency

(FEMA)

FEMA’s Mission “To support our citizens an first responders to

ensure that as a nation we work together to

build, sustain, and improve our capability to

prepare for, protect against, respond to,

recover from, and mitigate all hazards.”



Rules: Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency

Assistance Act

“Stafford Act” Is federal law designed to bring an orderly and

systemic means of federal natural disaster

assistance for state and local governments in

carrying out their responsibilities to aid citizens




Assistance Act

“Stafford Act” • Individual Assistance

• Uninsured

• Public Assistance

• Hazard Mitigation Assistance




Assistance Act

“Stafford Act” • Public Assistance

• Section 406 – Resilience funding

• Hazard Mitigation Assistance (Section 404)

• Repetitive Flood Claims (RFC) grants

• Hazard Mitigation Grant Programs (HMGP)

• Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) grants

• Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)



Player: Rules

Are evolving • Pre - 911 Paper FIRMS

• Post – 911 Homeland / FEMA • Revised role

• Map Modernization • Data collection

• Shift to digital maps

• Risk MAP • Better survey / topography

• Updated H/H modeling

• Inspire risk mitigation actions

Navigating the Stafford Act 2016 Eastern Regional Climate

Preparedness Conference Baltimore, MD April 4-6, 2016

Player: Rules

Are evolving • Disasters

• Katrina

• Irene

• Super Storm Sandy

Navigating the Stafford Act 2016 Eastern Regional Climate Preparedness Conference Baltimore, MD April 4-6, 2016


“Build back better, stronger.” FEMA

“Ability to adapt…withstand and recover

rapidly from disruptions.” USACE

“Able to bounce back…economic resilience” Bloomberg

“A framework for guiding investment and

actions to reduce vulnerabilities.” HUD



Engages community • Diverse stakeholders

• Promotes Interdisciplinary Interaction

Addresses multiple hazards and stressors • Current

• Future

Achieves Co-benefits (the Resilience

Dividend) • Leverage / leverage / leverage

• Partners / funding / resources



Strategy: Resilience Why Resilience? Represents good business

FEMA

“Every $1 spent on mitigation saves $4 on disaster recovery”

“Post disaster, if a business hasn’t re-opened within 5-days,

nearly 90% of those businesses will fail.”

Bloomberg

“80% of decrease in NYC’s gross national product was

associated with lose of power grid.”

Goldman Sachs

Impacts reduced national economic growth by 0.25%



Why resilience? It’s the law!

• Executive order 11988 / 3690

To improve the resilience of federal assets

Policy

• ALL federal (funded) projects

• Focus: critical facilities

• Police / Fire / Medical / Schools / Infrastructure

Higher Standards

• Federal Flood Risk Management Standard

• Critical facilities: 3 feet freeboard w/BFE

NEW: Benefit-Cost Analyses

• Allows consideration of future conditions

• Climate-informed Science Approach (CISA)


Tools

• HAZUS-MH • FEMA’s model estimates loses, evaluates costs

and benefits of mitigation options

• VAST • FHWA’s Vulnerability Assessment Scoring Tool

• ENVISION • ZOFNASS (Harvard’s) program for sustainable

/ resilient infrastructure

• Digital Coasts

• NOAA’s coastal flood risk mitigation

planning (portal)


Goal: Community • To become resilient

• To better respond, manage, prepare and mitigate impacts of:

Shocks

• Natural disasters

• Social/economic/environmental

• Organizational

• Man-sponsored (homeland)

Now….let’s talk Resilience!


1 Vulnerability Assessment

2 Risk Assessment

3 Resilient Makeover

4 Plan Integration

5 Plan Implementation

6 Monitor / Adapt


A resilient approach

1 Vulnerability Assessment • Identify mission critical program/facilities

• Identify current/future hazards

2 Risk Assessment • Evaluate probability of hazard

• Calculate consequences (damages)

• Prioritize programs, assets, systems

and facilities

3 Resilient Makeover • Identify/screen mitigation options

• Prioritize based on resilient dividend

• Benefit cost analysis (BCA)

Risk =

Probability x

Consequences

Consider

• Direct

• Indirect

Strategy: Resilience A resilient approach

4 Plan Integration • Culture

• Operational plans

• Capital Improvement Plans

5 Plan Implementation

• Finalize partnerships

• Leverage funding

• Plan / Design / Construct

6 Monitor / Adapt

• Celebrate

To Achieve Resilient Dividend

• Engage diverse

stakeholder !

• Seek partners !

• Leverage !

• Focus on the

triple bottom-line!

A resilient approach

A Case Study

Booker T. Washington Public

Housing Jersey City, New Jersey

Booker T Washington Housing Community

Jersey City, New Jersey

Integrated Stormwater and Resilience Master Plan

Conditions: • Hurricane Sandy:

• 6-foot storm surge

• Local site flooding

• Combined sewer surcharges

Objective

• Develop flood risk mitigation strategy for site

• Develop prototype for identifying and mitigating risk while:

• Enhancing resilience

• Creating community

Booker T. Washington Public Housing Jersey City, New Jersey

A Resilient Approach:

• Community-based

• Off-shore (living reefs) to On-shore (dunes)

Booker T. Washington

NJ Public Housing Authority

Strategies

• On-shore to Inland

• Earthen levees / floodwalls

• Internal drainage (pumping station) improvements

• Greenways

Higher

Ground

Higher

Ground

Hudson Line

Booker T. Washington - NJ Public Housing Authority

Booker T. Washington - NJ Public Housing Authority Strategies

• Off site Greenway(storm surge) Park

On-site strategies implemented • Protective berms

• Green infrastructure

• Diverts storm water from CSO system / Filters into the ground

• Elevate critical (electrical / mechanical) systems

• Add back-up (solar ) emergency power


Resilience Achieved • Engaged diverse stakeholders

• Addressed multiple hazards

• Leveraged partners, funding, resources

• Achieved social, environmental, and economic benefits

• Promoted Community!


What is Resilience?

A way of thinking

• Not an after thought

Considers holistic benefits

• Social, economic, environmental and organizational

systems

Represents good business

• Aligns investments with resilience needs

• Cost-effective

Baked In, Not Bolted On !

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