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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><b><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">How can your community benefit from including stormwater management and green infrastructure into the local Hazard Mitigation Plan?</span></b>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">Some benefits:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">•Leverage State, local, and tribal hazard mitigation planning and implementation to achieve water quality goals.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">•Improved stormwater drainage and reduced small storm nuisance flooding.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">• Potentially reduced flood insurance costs for communities participating in the Community Rating System.
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.fema.gov_national-2Dflood-2Dinsurance-2Dprogram-2Dcommunity-2Drating-2Dsystem&d=DwMFAg&c=tSLbvWYfvulPN3G_n48TUw&r=hMgWeIiqaW7epFfvoQNp5OWsMIE9cvEypzcIrYZEQ3Y&m=F0FR3HfG3NbVbuX-qvJ5ij_Q57DgbEtdOH41qQfPi08&s=-HeFTDZ61GgHnvPv59ico9cDOs7hkpjhyQQ2NmPSB1s&e=">
https://www.fema.gov/national-flood-insurance-program-community-rating-system [fema.gov]</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">State, tribal, and local governments develop a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) approved Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP) as a condition for receiving certain types of non-emergency disaster
assistance, including funding for recovery and mitigation. The hazard mitigation planning process helps communities identify risks and vulnerabilities associated with natural disasters, and develop long-term strategies to reduce risk for future events. The
mitigation strategies and actions identified in the plan can act as a catalyst for mitigation investments. In fact, applications submitted to FEMA for pre- and post-disaster funding must align with the HMP. Local jurisdictions will often develop a single or
multijurisdictional plan to be eligible as a sub-applicant to the state when applying for FEMA grants.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><b>Why now?</b> In 2015, FEMA updated the State Mitigation Plan Review Guide including a requirement that states take a holistic approach to resilience: land use and development, infrastructure,
natural and cultural resources, and other considerations. This means that stormwater projects are potentially eligible for FEMA grants, including green infrastructure projects.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">In addition to revising the Plan guidance, FEMA’s grants programs are now emphasizing stormwater green infrastructure/low impact development (GI/LID), ecosystem services, and floodplain and stream
restoration. Therefore, if GI/LID and/or ecosystem services projects are in these plans as a way to mitigate hazards, they have a chance to be funded.
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.fema.gov_media-2Dlibrary-2Ddata_1487161212568-2D3b313a4502545a8cf6846f36d53e1367_GI-5FFact-5FSheet-5FFeb2017-5FCOMPLIANT.pdf&d=DwMFAg&c=tSLbvWYfvulPN3G_n48TUw&r=hMgWeIiqaW7epFfvoQNp5OWsMIE9cvEypzcIrYZEQ3Y&m=F0FR3HfG3NbVbuX-qvJ5ij_Q57DgbEtdOH41qQfPi08&s=DnROQVHWbVHkIx7klpofiMMD16tH6GSj9p3tipGNPLE&e=">
https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1487161212568-3b313a4502545a8cf6846f36d53e1367/GI_Fact_Sheet_Feb2017_COMPLIANT.pdf [fema.gov]</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">Is your jurisdiction integrating water quality and nature-based approaches into hazard mitigation? How is it going?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#002060">Laura Bachle, AICP<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#002060">U.S. Environmental Protection Agency<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#002060">Washington, DC 20460
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#002060">Desk: (202) 566.2468<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#002060"><a href="mailto:bachle.laura@epa.gov">bachle.laura@epa.gov</a></span></i><b><span style="font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#002060"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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