National Flood Policy—ASFPM 2015 Recommendations
R. Federal Leadership
R.1. Establish high-level coordinating mechanism
for federal water resources policy
SOUNDS LIKE R1-R3 OVERLAP. AS ASFPM
CERTAINLY KNOWS, THIS LIST OF
RECOMMENDATIONS IS WAY LONG, AND A MORE
CONCISE LIST OF "ASKS" WOULD BE MORE
EFFECTIVE
R.2. Establish a National Flood Risk Management
Policy to include a comprehensive National Flood
Risk Management Program within the USACE.
Honeycutt: How would this relate (or would it) to
the Unified National Program? Or are you looking
at something totally new/different?
R.3. Adopt a watershed-based, comprehensive
approach for all federal water resources activities
and programs encourage this through existing
programs that may have the same goals, such as
the USACE Silver Jackets program.
EPA and NRCS have been doing this since the
1990s. Who else are we targeting?
R.4. Evaluate compliance with federal EO on
floodplain management to ensure 500-year
protection for critical facilities; ensuring access to
and fully operational facilities during 500-year
flood; avoiding floodplain when possible; using
future conditions in decision-making; avoiding
adverse impacts to both neighboring properties
and natural floodplain function.
GOOD POINTS, BUT NOT FOCUSED ON PRIMARY
RECOMMENDATION HERE
R.5. Assign responsibility for oversight of EO
11988 compliance to somewhere in
Administration and enforce
==Should a try be made for a new EO on flood
plain/flood risk management? I ask the question
because we may get something less supportive of
sound FPM than what we have.LB
R.6. Require all federal agencies to issue new
floodplain management EO guidance that reflects
other EO’s on resilience, sustainability and climate
change, with stronger mechanisms for monitoring,
reporting, enforcement and accountability;
(example; Require that all Federally funded
transportation projects incorporate comprehensive
flood and storm hazard mitigation design
standards.
R.7. Enforce all lease restrictions on federally
leased floodprone land, especially denial of flood
insurance, and non-renewal after expiration of the
lease.
R.8. FEMA should Establish a work group to assess
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and implement recommendations of 2012 report
on “Rethinking the NFIP”
R.9. ASFPM should analyze “Effective State
Programs” to work with states to encourage states
to move beyond basic and toward model flood risk
management programs, including an analysis of
existing similar programs, such as the USACE Silver
Jackets program.
This seems strange in an ASFPM document?
R.10. Provide full funding for flood risk
management data gathering and development
(GIS, streamgaging, forecasting, mapping,
Integrated Ocean Observing System, research)
Honeycutt: This should include tracking of flood
loss data (see E9)
Shouldn’t this move to D. Data?
R.11. Give FEMA Director discretionary authority
(with input from localities and the state) to require
communities to use advisory maps and BFEs (It
could be a requirement of CRS communities to use
advisory or preliminary maps as best available
data.)
R.12. Support professional certification programs
for floodplain managers, ins adjusters, agents, and
others; provide more insurance-related training via
the NFIP Training Contractor.
R.13. Provide sufficient and reliable funding for
federal programs that generate the most longterm impact, i.e., technical assistance and
state/local capability-buildings
==add implementation of nonstructural measures
especially elevation [less than 15] if it is using
future conditions with climate change impacts and
of course relocation and buyout which are
permanent flood risk reduction measures assuming
that the relocation site is not in any flood plain; not
just out of the commonly called flood plain; the
100 year
R. 14. Make NFIP participation and disaster
assistance contingent upon states’ ensuring that
their funding, regulations, and programs comply
with the NFIP; with monitoring and penalties for
noncompliance tie to DRA
==Be sure enforcement of this concept is present.
Somehow we have to get Congress and the 94%
educated that there is no more support for
Congress to provide bailout funds post disaster for
bad local land use decisions and noncompliance
with NFIP.
R. 15. Provide adequate resources and
opportunities for collaboration with state and local
partners of interagency coordination entities such
as the Federal Interagency Floodplain
Management Task Force and Mitigation
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Framework Leadership Group (MitFLG).
R. 16. Consider shifting to a national model that
delegates floodplain management authority to
states, with incentives provided through ALL
federal grants, disaster relief, etc.
R. 17. Support examinations of alternative
paradigms for national flood policy and programs,
including governance, mapping, avoidance of flood
risk areas and flood insurance
R. 18. Provide incentives to encourage states to
issue and enforce effective executive orders or
laws on floodplain management
Question received: are the governors of all states
authorized to issue executive orders?
R.19. Establish strong federal floodplain
management rules for federal investments and
actions that are based on the principles of long
term resiliency – including from climate change,
use of natural ecosystems for
resilience/sustainability and flood damage
reduction. Explore the Federal government’s use
of various natural resource exchanges and
markets, such as habitat exchanges, carbon
markets and use of easements to riparian/wetland
or coastal land owners.
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has additional
expertise and information about such tools and
can provide assistance.
R. 20. Proved federal leadership and support for
building capability for sustained state and local
flood hazard mitigation grant programs that can
complement federal investments in hazard
mitigation.
Moved to H. 23.? Or x-ref?
R. 21. Provide incentives (CRS, disaster relief and
others) for all state and local FP managers to be
CFMs.
R. 22. Pass sufficient enabling authority for regions
and communities to develop stormwater utilities
or similar mechanisms that can provide resources
for an array of flood risk management and loss
reduction actions.
This is a state issue. The feds cannot dictate or
authorize local/regional utilities – stormwater or
otherwise.
R. 23. FEMA should develop and implement a CAPSSSE type program to assist states in building state
hazard mitigation capability. Program should
Clarify
flood risk is not a federal responsibility
Doesn’t this already exist?
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include an agreed-upon plan between State
government and FEMA.
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Should this move to H.
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