1. Life-Cycle Flood Risk Management
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Alex C. Dornstauder
Deputy Director
Office of Homeland Security
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
December 9, 2010
US Army Corps of Engineers
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2. Life-Cycle Risk Management
USACE role/missions
Support DOD – example of BG Berwick joining JTF-Katrina and BG Schroedel joining JTF-Rita
Conduct Corps Missions as well
- Example of initial flood fighting/levee repair
- Project Conditions and assessment at other critical infrastructure projects
3. Execute ESF#3 in support of FEMA
All in concert with other Federal agencies, States and local governments, contractors, and effected industries working as ONE TEAM.

3. Shared Flood Risk Management
“ Buying Down the Risk “
Initial Risk
Outreach
Federal / State / Local
Natural Storage
Federal / State / Local
Structural
Federal / State / Local
Non – Structural
Federal / State / Local
Risk
Contingency Plans
Federal / State / Local / Individual
Building Codes
State / Local
Zoning
Local
This graph illustrates the definition of flood risk management, and carries our message that some risk will remain no matter what measures are in place.
We have transitioned from flood control to flood damage reduction and now to flood risk management
The graph shows just a few of the tools that can be used to buy down or manage risk
Note that the tools are shared as is the responsibility for flood risk management, some of the tools lie within the responsibility of the nonfederal entities
Also note that there will always be a residual risk and the goal is to collaboratively reduce the residual risk to acceptable levels.
Insurance
Individual / NFIP
Residual Risk
All Stakeholders contribute to reducing risk !

4. National Flood Risk Management
This graph illustrates the definition of flood risk management, and carries our message that some risk will remain no matter what measures are in place.
We have transitioned from flood control to flood damage reduction and now to flood risk management
The graph shows just a few of the tools that can be used to buy down or manage risk
Note that the tools are shared as is the responsibility for flood risk management, some of the tools lie within the responsibility of the nonfederal entities
Also note that there will always be a residual risk and the goal is to collaboratively reduce the residual risk to acceptable levels.

5. Inter-Agency Flood Risk Management
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
Active Inter-Governmental Flood Risk Management Team
Fully Signed Charter
Ongoing Effort to Develop Team
As of: 6 DEC 2010

6. 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
Synchronize Internal Programs and Activities
8 Objectives:
-Communication and outreach strategy. (D and O (implement)
-Strategic plan to incorporate environmental mission, coastal flood damage reduction program, and R&D. (pending)
-Incorporate SES oversight at HQ: periodic meetings (pending)
-FRM participation with other CoPs (3 for Infra)
With external partners, align, coordinate and leverage FRM activities at a national scale
-Re-established FIFM-TF (O)
Draft 5 year work plan: wide range of initiatives, programs, and needs involved with promoting appropriate development and sustainment of the Nation’s floodplains and contributing watersheds.
Strengthen State and Regional Partnerships
-Sustain 20 Active state Silver Jackets teams + offering to another 28 states (D and O)
-Sustain and enhance leadership of regional teams (list)
Risk-Based Inspection and Assessment
-Collaborated with Resource Agencies on vegetation standards, R&D, ESA
-Develop levee safety risk analysis ranking and communication tools
Enable Risk-Reducing Mitigation by Managing and Aligning Existing Programs
-Better align PAS &FPMS with state and local flood hazard mitigation plans to:
link delivery through intergovernmental partnerships (SJ) to states; and
identify FPMS/PAS POC to oversee funds to support national flood risk objectives and initiatives.
Update Flood Emergency, Flood Fighting and Rehabilitation to Account for Life-Cycle
-PDT formed to review and revise ER series regulation. (D)
Draft revision completion scheduled for June 2011.(O)
Collaborate Risk Mgmnt with Internat’l Partners
-Develop and maintain relationships with governments and other organizations internationally to encourage information exchange to improve flood risk management. (O)
-Hosting international flood risk management workshop with foreign government agencies (Nov 2010)

7. 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
Real Time Flood Inundation Model -- Army Corps of Engineers has damage curves for flooding and has some riverine flood models. FEMA has HAZUS, a GIS based modeling tool that can estimate damage levels for selected streams, the states have construction data and structural value information for residential and commercial structures along the rivers. The USGS has access to water science products and stream gages and the National weather service has both real time rain information as well as the predictive information based on storm modeling. Each database/model was written with a different digital structure. By adding Indiana University with their super computer to the team and Purdue University’s computing sciences lab, a bridge program was written to draw the individual models, and programs together under a open architecture format and allow a person to run the program automatically upon demand in real time. The program, when river levels reach a set trigger point, will run automatically and provide both current inundation information as well as provide predictive information for response and mitigation actions. Overall cost for the pilot project was $750K. No one single agency neither had the funding nor the personnel to complete this project alone, yet with the collaboration of skills and funding, the pilot project was created using a minimal investment. The state of Indian is now seeking to apply the tool to multiple other rivers to assure that the modeling which works very well for the pilot project area can be applied to other water basins. The opportunity for major cost savings from damages avoided is tremendous.

8. 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 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
Development of a non-structural alternative project in Louisa, IA that resulted in a non-structural alternative to a proposed structural repair. The alternative required the cooperation of the levees public sponsor, county and state mitigation agencies, the Corps and NRCS to implement. The alternative comprised of the combination of over 300 acres of NRCS flood plain easements with significantly reduced structural repairs to protect a state highway. As a result of the collaborative actions over 1200 acres of formerly protected area was returned to the floodway gaining not only improved environmental habit but increase flood storage capacity while continuing to protect an important state road.
HOWEVER, similar efforts in other areas of IA and IL could not be completed, as sufficient time was not available post-event—need support for pre-planning

9. Revising Executive Order 11988 on Floodplain Management
Draft Revised EO 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 will be revised
BLUF: Administration has not et determined if EO should be revised.
1977 EO11988
Purpose: … avoid to the extent possible the long and short term adverse impacts associated with the occupancy and modification of floodplains and to avoid direct or indirect support of floodplain development wherever there is a practicable alternative,….
Scope: When federal agency is
acquiring, managing. and disposing of Federal lands and facilities;
providing Federally undertaken, financed, or assisted construction and improvements; and
conducting Federal activities and programs affecting land use, including but not limited to water and related land resources planning, regulating, and licensing activities. 9

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