US Army Corps of Engineers BUILDING STRONG ® Flood Risk Management Update Stephanie Bray 12/10/2013

BUILDING STRONG ® Federal Interagency Floodplain Management Task Force Membership

BUILDING STRONG ® Federal Interagency Floodplain Management Task Force  Current Activities ► EO survey on effectiveness of implementation ► Enhancing technical assistance available to coastal communities ► Understanding costs and losses due to flood events

BUILDING STRONG ® PPD-8 Components National Preparedness System National Preparedness Goal National Planning Frameworks Prevention Protection Mitigation Response Recovery Federal Interagency Operational Plans

BUILDING STRONG ® Mitigation Framework Leadership Group  Federal Flood Risk Reduction Standard under development  Interagency team of subject matter experts participating in development  Effort will build off of the efforts of the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force and the President’s Climate Action Plan

BUILDING STRONG ® Delivering Inter-Agency Flood Risk Management Silver Jackets  State-Led ( Voice of our Customers )  States set priorities for Interagency Federal support  States can invite partners Feds cannot  Interagency Method of Delivery ( MOD )  Collaboration across agencies / levels of government  Leverage resources: talent, data, funding  Improve flood risk communication: unified interagency message  Continuous, not project-specific  Strategic Life-Cycle Risk Mgmt  Watershed Perspective  State teams facilitate regional, state-to-state FRM Partners 6

BUILDING STRONG ® Silver Jackets Interagency Projects  Forty-one (41) FRM and LS Projects  FY11-13  Twenty-five (25) States completing projects  $3.7M USACE investment leveraged $4M from partners  Nineteen (19) Nonstructural Projects  FY13-14  Nineteen (19) States completing projects  $2M USACE leveraged against $1M from partners  Demonstrate Benefits of Interagency Approach  Use existing authorities of multiple agencies  Leverage resources among Fed, State, Local, Tribal  Evaluate Outcomes, quantitatively and qualitatively ► Raise Awareness Assess Risk Prompt Action Reduce / Manage Risk State Local Other NOAA FEMA NWS USGS Distribution of FRM and LS Project Partner Leveraging

BUILDING STRONG ® Flood Risk Management – Silver Jackets Workshops  2013 Flood Risk Management – Silver Jackets Webinar Week a huge success ► Over 400 people registered ► Approximately 150 participated at any given time  2014 Flood Risk Management – Silver Jackets Workshop in planning process ► Anticipated August 19-21, 2014 in Southbridge, MA

BUILDING STRONG ® Characterizing National Flood Risk  Characterize national flood risk for policy- oriented purposes, internally within USACE and then externally with partners  Demonstrate specific USACE contribution to achieved flood risk reduction  Characterize future flood risks  Characterize national and regional risk

BUILDING STRONG ® Questions?