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EBC Climate Change Program:
Update - FEMA National Flood Insurance Program
Implications of the Flood Insurance Rate Maps
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
Boston, Massachusetts
Agenda
5:30 p.m.
Welcome – Daniel K. Moon, President, EBC
Introduction and Overview: Kelly Knee, Program Chair and Moderator
Director – Coastal Hazards, RPS ASA
5:45 p.m.
Overview of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and Recent Flood
Mapping Efforts
 Richard Zingarelli, State NFIP Program Coordinator
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Department of Conservation and Recreation
6:30 p.m.
Understanding the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012
 Thomas Young, CPCU, ARM
National Flood Insurance Program iService Team
FEMA Region 1 – NFIP B&S Agent
OST Inc.
7:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Kelly Knee, RPS ASA
Panelists:
 Richard Zingarelli, Massachusetts Dept. of Conservation and Recreation
 Thomas Young, FEMA Region 1 – NFIP B&S Agent, OST Inc.
7:30 p.m.
Adjourn
Program Chair
Kelly Knee, Director - Coastal Hazards
RPS ASA
55 Village Square Drive, South Kingstown, RI 02879
(401) 789-6224 // kknee@asascience.com // www.asascience.com
Ms. Knee is a water resources engineer and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) specialist
with Applied Science Associates (ASA). Since joining ASA in 2004, she has conducted sea
level rise and storm surge impact assessments for many locations around the world to support
both education initiatives and engineering analyses. Her interactive, 3-D simulations of sea
level rise are currently on display at the Wood’s Hole Oceanographic Institute, SciWorks North
Carolina, and the Boston Museum of Science. Her 3D visualization of inundation at critical
facilities in Hull, MA helped gain support for an increase in freeboard requirements. Ms. Knee
has performed a series of coastal risk assessments for coastal industrial facilities including
analyses of sea level rise, storm surge, wave overtopping, and tsunami inundation. Prior to
joining ASA in 2004, she conducted an economic assessment of the impacts of sea level rise
and storm surge flooding in metro Boston and used a Fulbright Fellowship to study the impacts
of sea level rise and storm surge flooding in the country of Mauritius.
Speakers
Thomas Young, CPCU, ARM
National Flood Insurance Program iService Team
FEMA Region 1 – NFIP B&S Agent
OST Inc.
P.O. Box 16321, Hooksett, NH 03106
(603) 625-5125 // TYoung@ostglobal.com
Tom Young is the Region I Manager of the National Flood Insurance Program, interfacing with
insurance agents, finance professionals, realtors, community and state officials, architects,
surveyors, engineers and property owners throughout New England. Providing guidance on
flood policy interpretation, flood map amendments, effect of flood map changes on property
owners and how to manage the flood program in general. Previous history included 12 years in
risk management for publicly traded fortune 500 companies, 20 years experience within the
property and casualty insurance industry, 10 years experience with local public government.
Richard Zingarelli, National Flood Insurance Program Coordinator
Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation
251 Causeway Street, Suite 600-900, Boston, MA 02114-2104
(617) 626-1406 // Richard.Zingarelli@state.ma.us
Richard Zingarelli has been the Program Manager for the Flood Hazard Management Program
within the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation for 21 years. He is the
State Coordinator for the National Flood Insurance Program and the Acting State Hazard
Mitigation Officer. As the State NFIP Coordinator, he is the primary liaison for Massachusetts
communities, state agencies, businesses, and other individuals to obtain information on the
NFIP and floodplain management in general. As the State Hazard Mitigation Officer, he
administers the state’s hazard mitigation planning and project grant programs in close
coordination with the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.
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