Presentation at the West Virginia Flood Plain Managers Conference 2010

1. West Virginia Silver Jackets
Joe Trimboli
Community Planner
Huntington District Planning Branch
12 May 2010
US Army Corps of Engineers
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2. What is Silver Jackets?
 National Response Framework (NRF)
► unified
national response to disasters and
emergencies - comprehensive, national, all-
hazards approach to domestic incident
response.
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3. National Response Framework
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4. National Flood Risk Management
Program (NFRMP)
 Established by USACE May 2006 for integrating
and synchronizing USACE flood risk
management programs and activities, both
internally and with counterpart activities of the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA), other Federal agencies, state
organizations and regional and local agencies.
 FEMA, ASFPM1, and NAFSMA2
1 - Association of State Flood Plain Managers
2 - National Association of Flood & Stormwater Management Agencies
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5. National Flood Risk Management
Program (NFRMP)
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6. Silver Jackets
 To provide amore formal and consistent strategy
for implementing an interagency approach to
planning and mitigation for flood hazards and
these linking activities to the response and
recovery of these hazards .
 Creates a mechanism for developing and
maintaining interagency partnerships in the field.
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7. Approach
 Improve processes and identify gaps and counteractive
programs
 Leverage resources and information - Learn about
programs and how to combine, “patchwork quilt”
 Provide Federal assistance in implementing state
priorities, such as high priority actions identified in states’
mitigation plans
 Not intended to duplicate similar efforts
► Supplement successful teams
► Strengthen existing relationships
► Establish relationships where they don’t exist
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8. Watershed Approach (EPA)
 Partnerships
 Geographic Focus
 Strong Management based on Strong
Science and Data
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10. Status
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11. WV – Silver Jackets
 Planning Measures that began with the
Statewide Flood Plan
 Engage WV DHS & EM
 Formalize Charter
► Vision,
Purpose, Goals, Organization,
Responsibilities, Meetings, and Decisions
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12. Future Actions
 Current Statewide Flood Plan update is
Silver Jackets Team?
 Follow-up meeting for future input
► Vision,
Purpose, Goals, Organization,
Responsibilities, Meetings, and Decisions
 Schedule 1st Official Silver Jackets
meeting of the West Virginia Chapter
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13. Contact Information
Steve O’Leary
USACE – Huntington District
502 8th Street
Huntington, WV 25701
Phone: 304-399-5841
Cell: 304-360-1267
Fax: 304-399-5136
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14. Web Sites
 National Flood Risk Management
Program
► http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/nfrmp/
 Silver Jackets
► http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/nfrmp/state/
 National Response Framework
Resource Center
► http://www.fema.gov/emergency/nrf/
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15. QUESTIONS?
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