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US Army Corps of Engineers

BUILDING STRONG®

Flood Risk Management & the “Silver Jackets” Program

Florida Silver Jackets Kick-off Session

Wednesday, November 3rd 2010 , 1-4pmKelley Training Room, 3rd floor, 2555 Shumard

Oak Blvd., Tallahassee, Florida

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•Developing programs & activities that contribute to managing flood risk

•Manage flood risk in a “Life Cycle” watershed framework that integrates:

•Emergency Management • Dam & Levee Safety • Planning • Operations (Res Ops, vegetation on levees, etc.)

•Coordinate Flood Risk Management Policies, Programs & Activities with Federal, State, Local partners

The Problem: Effectively Managing Flood Risk Management

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Solution: Silver Jackets Program

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Silver Jackets

What is the Silver Jackets Program?► An innovative program that provides an opportunity to consistently bring

together multiple Federal, State and sometimes local agencies to learn from one another and apply that knowledge to reduce risk.

► Provides a formal and consistent strategy for an interagency approach to planning and implementing measures to reduce the risks associated with flooding and other natural hazards.

► It is a partnership of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and state agencies.

► Silver Jacket programs are developed at the state level with support from the Corps, FEMA and other Federal agencies.

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Traditionally, different agencies wear different colored jackets when responding to emergencies.

For example, FEMA personnel wear blue and Corps personnel wear red.

The name Silver Jackets is used to underscore the common mission of the diverse agencies involved; figuratively wearing silver jackets, indicating a commonality of

purpose.

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Why the name Silver Jackets?

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Program's Primary Goals: Create or supplement a mechanism to collaboratively address risk management

issues, prioritize those issues, and implement solutions Increase and improve risk communication through a unified interagency effort Leverage information and resources, including providing access to such national

programs as:► FEMA's Map Modernization program ► RiskMAP programs ► USACE's Levee Inventory and Assessment Initiative

Provide focused, coordinated hazard mitigation assistance in implementing high-priority actions such as those identified by state mitigation plans

Identify gaps among the various agency programs and/or barriers to implementation, such as:

► conflicting agency policies► or authorities,

Provide recommendations for addressing these issues.

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Program Objectives Establish continuous, collaborative State level partnerships to

implement Flood Risk Management solutions Facilitate state level life-cycle planning to reduce flood risks Leverage resources and information; learn about other programs

and how to combine effectively and improve processes, identifying and resolving gaps and counteractive programs

Improve flood risk communications & outreach to states and communities; unified interagency messages

Establish close relationships to facilitate integrated post-disaster recovery solutions

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Program's Desired Outcomes:

Reduced flood risk Agencies better understand and leverage each other's

programs Collaboration between various agencies, coordinated

programs, cohesive solutions Multi-agency technical resource for state and local

agencies Mechanism for establishing relationships to facilitate

integrated solutions post-disaster

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Program Implementation

Silver Jackets framework is used to implement state level partnerships

Initially focus on states with “opportunities” for collaboration

Long term objective is to have teams operating in each state

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• Teams are developed at the state level with the support of the Federal partners

• At a minimum, each state team includes a representative from:

•Federal Emergency Management Agency/DHS

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

• State hazard mitigation officer

• State National Flood Insurance Program coordinator

• Adjunct team members could include representatives from other interested Federal agencies.

• Include representatives from Native American tribes/nations as either adjunct or standing members

Developing a Silver Jackets Team

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• The charter is a tool that provides a clear description of the team and its purpose

• Identifies the authority and resources to accomplish the purpose of the team

• Clarifies team expectations, keeping the team focused and aligned with organizational priorities.

• Is non-binding

Why Develop a Silver Jackets Team Charter?

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Silver Jackets State Team Formation

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StateCorps Silver Jackets POC

Phone Email

ALABAMA Vongmony Var 251-694-3866 Vongmony.Var@usace.army.mil

FLORIDA Dave Apple 904-232-1757 David.P.Apple@usace.army.mil

GEORGIA Jeff Morris 912-652-5008 Jeffrey.S.Morris@usace.army.mil

KENTUCKY Roger Setters 502-315-6891 Roger.D.Setters@usace.army.mil

MISSISSIPPI Katy Breaux 601-631-5741 Katy.Breaux@usace.army.mil

NORTH CAROLINA

Jason Glazener 910-251-4910 Jason.S.Glazener@usace.army.mil

SOUTH CAROLINA

Sara Brown 843-329-8150 Sara.A.Brown@usace.army.mil

TENNESSEE Dave Bishop 615-736-7856 Dave.A.Bishop@usace.army.mil

Corps Silver Jackets Reps – FEMA Region IV

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Q1: How often do SJ Teams meet?A1: Team decides; monthly is ideal

Q2: What do meeting agendas consist of?A2: Team decides; generally, topics include items such as data sharing,

and problem solving in specific high risk basins within the state

Q3: What is the value added, why not just use our existing mitigation meeting as the appropriate forum?

A3: Because a key element or tenet of FRM is to coordinate across all disciplines within the organization… not simply mitigation/planners, but responders, etc…

FAQs:

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Why Form a Silver Jacket TeamBottom Line Up Front (BLUF)

Reduce Flood Risk to the Nation, through better coordination and collaboration across Programs within the Corps, and with other Federal, State,

and Local Agencies.

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Questions?Flood Risk Management/Silver Jackets

Russ Rote, P.E., PMP, CFMPlanning and Policy DivisionSouth Atlantic Division US Army Corps of Engineers 60 Forsyth Street, SW Room 9M4 Atlanta, GA 30303-8801V: 404-562-5103F: 404-562-5218email: Russ.L.Rote@usace.army.mil

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Dave Apple, P.E.Watershed Planning SectionJacksonville District US Army Corps of Engineers 701 San Marco Blvd Jacksonville, FL 32207V: 904-232-1757F: 904-232-3976email: David.P.Apple@usace.army.mil

Silver Jackets Kick-off Attendance

NWS Inundation Mapping Website

• Graphical representation of flood inundation for flood stages based on steady state hydraulic modeling of water surface elevations for incremented discharges for selection locations across the nation

• NO LOCATIONS WITHIN FLA!

http://www.weather.gov/ahps/inundation.php

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Statewide GIS Coordination

• FGDC Grant• October 2007 – April 2008• 3 regional user conferences 520+

stakeholders engaged, online survey, interviews

• 3 regional workshops 150+ participants• http://www.floridadisaster.org/gis/capgrant

History

• Establish a formal framework for successful GIS coordination– Create Geospatial Programs Office headed

by a GIS Coordinator– Create a Geographic Information Council– Empower Technical Advisory Committees

Programmatic Goals

• 2010 Strategic Plan recommends…–short-listed GIS as a potential enterprise

information technology and recommended making GIS an enterprise service

– allocating two additional resources– creating in statute a Geographic Information

Office within AEIT, and the formation of a Geographic Information Council.

State CIO Office

• Agency for Enterprise Information Technology Strategic Plan

–https://aeit.myflorida.com/agencyprojects– Results of state agency survey in Addendum A– Report from GIS Workgroup in Addendum B

• GIS Use Survey–http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FL-GIS-Coor

dination-Survey

Statewide GIS Coordination

• SHRUG – Statewide GIS Coordination update at lunch on

2nd day.

– Panel discussion on statewide GIS coordination following for the 1:30 PM session (working on conference call and GoToWebinar for this panel).

Statewide GIS Coordination