US Army Corps of Engineers

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Life-Cycle Flood Risk Management ??????????????
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Comfortable with Multiple Protection
Mechanisms
Alex C. Dornstauder Deputy Director Office of
Homeland Security U.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
Initial Risk
Risk
Residual Risk
All Stakeholders contribute to reducing risk
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National Flood Risk Management
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Silver Jackets
Inter-Agency Flood Risk Management

• 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

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
• FEMAs 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
  Administrations 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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Questions ?
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