Arid Regions Policy Committee
Agenda
April 5, 2011
9:00 – 10:00 AM Pacific Time
The call in number is 218-936-4700 access code is 27376 .
1. Introductions and Welcome – additional agenda items.
2. Solicitation of a volunteer to take summary notes and post them on the Arid Regions
page.
3. Status of Alluvial Fan Discussion Paper – Ray Lenaburg has requested that this be added
to a future Engineering and Mapping IPT meeting (possibly May).
4. Status of the draft Erosion Zone White Paper – Set up Working Session?
5. Planning for next Arid Regions conference, proposed for 2013, hosting chapter to be
determined .
6. Committee Report – see attached.
7. Participation by other Arid Regions Chapters
8. Identify Action Items
9. Next meeting date
ASSOCIATION OF STATE FLOODPLAIN MANAGERS
Arid Regions Committee
2010-2011 Report
Louisville, Kentucky
Co-Chair: Robert Davies, PE, CFM
Co-Chair: Jeanne Ruefer, CFM, PMP
AMEC Earth & Environmental
Accenture
1405 W. Auto Drive
1111 Broadway, Suite 1200
Tempe, Arizona 85284
Oakland, California 94607
1 480 940-2320
1 510 627-7046
Email: robert.l.davies@amec.com
Email: jeanne.m.ruefer@accenture.com
The primary mission of the Arid Regions Committee is to provide policy guidance and support of Arid
Regions floodplain management issues to foster reduction of future losses, costs, and human suffering
caused by flooding. Historically, this committee has influenced FEMA's Flood Mapping Program through
education and outreach in the arid areas. This has been accomplished through forwarding local Arid
Regions floodplain concerns to ASFPM for actions, disseminating ASFPM policies and questions to local
floodplain decision makers for action, and sharing information between communities in the Arid Regions.
The Arid Regions Committee has the following standard work items that are ongoing in nature:
1. Participate in ASFPM Policy Committee Conference Calls and Retreats. – Bob and Jeanne
attended the Conference Calls as availability allowed. Bob attended the Policy Committee
Retreat in Madison.
2. Conduct committee coordination and planning – The annual workplan was developed and
approved by the Committee at a monthly conference call.
3. Attend Policy Committee Chair Meeting at National Conference and conduct annual committee
meeting. – The co-chairs both attended the Policy Committee Chair Meeting and conducted the
annual committee meeting at the National Conference.
4. Prepare Annual Reports and Develop Work Plans - Reports and Work Plans submitted on
schedule.
The Arid Regions Committee completed four major work items in 2010/2011. These items are:
1. Successfully conduct the Arid Regions Symposium at the FMA conference in Henderson in
November, 2010.
a. Conference & Symposium held November 2 – 5, 2011. Over 400 participants attended.
The Arid Regions Symposium section was well attended, with over 100 participants in
some of the sessions.
b. Planning has started for the next symposium, with an invitation to the Arid Regions
Chapters to sponsor the event in 2013.
2. Develop a white paper promote mapping of riverine erosion flood hazard zones. (FEMA goal
1.3.5)
a. A draft outline of this paper is in circulation amongst the committee members.
3. Finalize and have the board accept the white Paper on the Need for Updating Alluvial Fan
Floodplain Delineations Guidelines.
a. A Discussion Paper titled Need for Updating Alluvial Fan Floodplain Delineation
Guidelines, was approved by the Executive Board and forwarded to FEMA in February
2011.
4. Continue to conduct monthly Committee Conference Calls with interested people.
a. Conference calls are conducted monthly, the first Tuesday of the month. The
conference calls allow the co-chairs to share information from the Board Calls and the
Policy Committee Calls with our membership. Thanks to Becky and Jason for setting up
the call and posting the agenda!