December 23, 2011
Battle Escalates Over Building in Puget Sound Flood Plains
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Battle Escalates Over Building in Puget Sound Flood Plains 12/22/2011 By Craig Welch, The Seattle Times Dec. 22–More than a decade after government biologists first warned the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that allowing development in flood plains is helping kill salmon and orcas, environmental groups on Wednesday turned to their most potent — and…
December 23, 2011
Larry Larson answers follow-up questions from Environment and Public Works Committee Hearing
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See the attached document containing the responses to the questions posed by Senator Boxer and Senator Inhofe as follow on to the Senate hearing on the Floods of 2011 held by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Oct 18, 2011. …
December 19, 2011
December News & Views Online
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Click here for the final News & Views of 2011! Inside This Issue: Year of Disasters: 2011 Floods in Review Top Ten ASFPM Highlights of 2011 Become a member in 2012: A Message from your Associate Director ASFPM Foundation From the Chair Director’s Desk National Award Nominations Engaging the Public Conference Update NFFA Science Services:…
December 8, 2011
Climate Extremes 2011–NOAA’s Climate Science & Services
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Extreme Weather and Climate Events for 2011 A Year for the Record Books From extreme drought, heat waves and floods to unprecedented tornado outbreaks, hurricanes, wildfires and winter storms, a record 12 weather and climate disasters in 2011 each caused $1 billion or more in damages – and most regrettably, loss of human lives and…
December 8, 2011
NFIP extension to May 31, 2012 passed Senate
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S. 1958 extending the NFIP to May 31 passed the Senate yesterday under Unanimous Consent. The bill was introduced by Sen. David Vitter (R-LA). This is the date favored by Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson (D-SD) and Ranking Member Shelby (R-AL). The measure now goes to the House. Text is below. S.1958 — To extend…
December 6, 2011
Vegetation on Levees: Policy for Development and Implementation of System-Wide Improvement Frameworks (SWIFs)
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A significant milestone has been achieved in developing the process to transition levees into compliance with federal standards. Please see the signed copy of the System-Wide Improvement Framework policy, dated 29 November, 2011. This policy provides committed levee sponsors a process to transition their levees, over time, to Corps standards while remaining eligible for federal…
December 5, 2011
FEMA Administrator Fugate Talks Mitigation
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Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator W. Craig Fugate addresses attendees of International Code Council’s 2011 Annual Conference in Phoenix in a keynote address discussing the importance of adopting and enforcing safe and sustainable building codes to make communities more resilient to natural disasters. Link to video. …