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Ed Laatsch

Director, Planning, Safety and Building Sciences Division Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration

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FEMA Mission

FEMA's mission is to help people prepare before, during and after disasters.

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FEMA Strategic Goals

• Build a Culture of Preparedness
• Ready the Nation for Catastrophic

Disasters

• Reduce the Complexity of FEMA

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FEMA NEHRP Mission

The development and application of knowledge-based research in the geological, engineering, and social sciences; educating leaders and the public; and assisting State, local, and private sector leaders with the development of standards, policies, and practices.

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FEMA NEHRP Headquarters Team

• Edward Laatsch – Division Director (Agency

Rep for NEHRP)

• Bill Blanton – Building Science Branch

Chief

• Mike Mahoney – Senior Staff Member/EQ

Codes/Special Projects (PBSD)

• Andrew Herseth – EQ Existing Buildings

Guidance

• Mai ‘Mike’ Tong – EQ New Buildings

Guidance

• David Javier – Program Manager, State

Assistance

• Jon Foster – Program Manager, State

Assistance

• Tammy Roy – Management Analyst

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FEMA NEHRP Regional Team

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FEMA NEHRP Partners

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FEMA NEHRP Funding

Funding for FY 2016 $8.5 Mil Funding for FY 2017 $8.5 Mil Funding for FY 2018 $8.5 Mil Funding for FY 2019 $8.7 Mil Requested for FY 2020 $8.5 Mil

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2018 Legislation that will impact FEMA NEHRP

• NEHRP Reauthorization Act of 2018
• Disaster Recovery Reform Act (DRRA) of 2018
• Bipartisan Budget Act (BBA) of 2018

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2018 Legislation that will impact FEMA NEHRP

NEHRP Reauthorization Act of 2018

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• Reauthorizes the FEMA program for the next five years
• Simplifies original nine areas of responsibility for FEMA to five
• Aligns our FEMA NEHRP grant program with other FEMA HMA grant programs
• Mandates that we emphasize the importance of reducing risks associated with existing buildings

and Lifelines Infrastructure

• Requires us to support the creation of a committee of experts “ to assess and recommend options

for improving the built environment and critical infrastructure…”.

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2018 Legislation that will impact FEMA NEHRP

Disaster Recovery Reform Act (DRRA) of 2018

Section 1233 - HMGP and PDM/BRIC assistance may be used for improvements to: 1. Regional seismic networks; 2. Geodetic networks 3. Seismometers, Global Positioning System receivers, and associated infrastructure Section 1241 – Post Disaster Building Safety Assessment 1. Requires the functions of post-disaster building safety assessment to be accurately Resource Typed within the National Incident Management System (NIMS) 2. Requires FEMA to publish guidance (including best practices) on conducting post-disaster building safety assessments, specifically related to structural integrity and livability 3. New publication being developed for this. Final publication due in Oct 2019

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2018 Legislation that will impact FEMA NEHRP

Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018

BBA Sec. 20606

• Amended Stafford Act Sec. 406(b)
• Incentivizes code adoption/enforcement by allowing the

President to increase the minimum Federal share on FEMA Public Assistance grants to 85 percent

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Enhanced Earthquake Program Initiative for 2019 and Beyond

• Creation of a FEMA Intra-Agency Earthquake Working Group
• Enhancing the Resilience of Lifelines
• Develop a National Earthquake Insurance Promotion Strategy
• Evolving the Earthquake State Assistance Grant Program
• Addressing Functional Recovery

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Enhanced Earthquake Program Initiative for 2019 and Beyond

Creation of a FEMA Intra-Agency Earthquake Working Group

• Bring together all elements within FEMA associated with the Agency’s earthquake efforts
• Facilitate Coordination and collaboration on outreach, exercises, plans and grants
• Supports our FEMA Strategic Plan, Strategic Goal 3, Reducing the Complexity of FEMA
• Working Group will be established and a draft Collaboration Strategy by December 2019
• Two specific actions the Working Group will address in CY 2019:
• Promotion of Earthquake Insurance
• Enhancing the resilience of Lifelines

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Enhanced Earthquake Program Initiative for 2019 and Beyond

Enhancing the Resilience of Lifelines

This initiative addresses requirements for developing and disseminating seismic design guidance on lifelines infrastructure as contained in the NEHRP law. This initiative would also build on the recent FEMA 2019 Annual Planning Guidance that lists “Advancing Community Lifelines through the FEMA Strategic Plan” as its first priority. We plan to address lifelines infrastructure by working with ORRA and elements of Resilience (such as the new Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program) through the newly created Intra-Agency Working Group, and assisting them in their efforts to improve the preparedness of lifelines and how FEMA responds to and recovers from lifeline damages after disasters. We also plan to initiate a new contract to investigate and implement lifelines infrastructure-related topics as identified in the NEHRP lifelines infrastructure strategic plan; Earthquake-Resilient Lifelines: NEHRP Research, Development and Implementation Roadmap

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Enhanced Earthquake Program Initiative for 2019 and Beyond

Develop a National Earthquake Insurance Promotion Strategy

• FEMA is working internally to develop a strategy. Initial steps include:
• Promotion of EQ Insurance now an allowable activity for FEMA NEHRP grants
• Promotional materials being developed (Infographics, Background Papers, etc.)
• Initiative supports FEMA NEHRP public awareness responsibility from P.L. 115-307
• Supports our FEMA Strategic Plan, Strategic Objective 1.2, Close the Insurance Gap, and 1.3 Help

Prepare People for Disasters

• Goal is to increase the purchase of earthquake insurance nationally by 5%, by 2025

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Enhanced Earthquake Program Initiative for 2019 and Beyond

Evolving the Earthquake State Assistance grant program

• Elimination of the 50% Cash Match Requirement. Replaced by a 25% Cost “Share”
• States now authorized to use “In Kind” contributions to meet Cost Share
• Retired the State Support component of the program established in 2012. All States now participate

in Direct State Assistance (33 of 36 States participating in 2020). All funding provided to States results in increased State investments in mitigation

• Added the Promotion of Earthquake Insurance as an allowable activity
• FEMA provides funding for all eligible States to attend National Earthquake Conference 2020

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Enhanced Earthquake Program Initiative for 2019 and Beyond

Addressing Functional Recovery – Contained in 2018 Reauthorization

The recent NEHRP reauthorization, P.L. 115-307, includes a new Section 5 Seismic Standards that requires NIST and FEMA to perform the following:

• Not later than December 1, 2019, … jointly convene a committee of experts from Federal agencies,

nongovernmental organizations, private sector entities, disaster management professional associations, engineering professional associations, and professional construction and homebuilding industry associations, to assess and recommend options for improving the built environment and critical infrastructure to reflect performance goals stated in terms of post-earthquake re-occupancy and functional recovery time.

• REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than June 30, 2020, submit a report on recommended options for

improving the built environment and critical infrastructure to reflect performance goals stated in terms of post-earthquake re-occupancy and functional recovery time.

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Accomplishments

• National Earthquake Program Manager Meeting – Salt Lake City, UT April 22-26
• New Publications and Technical Manuals
• National, Regional and State Assistance
• Support for Model Building Code Adoption and Enforcement

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Accomplishments

National Earthquake Program Manager Meeting Salt Lake City, UT April 22-26

FEMA Regional Earthquake Program Managers with FEMA Deputy Associate Administrator David Maurstad, Salt Lake City, Utah April 23, 2019

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Annual event for all State, FEMA Regional and Multi-State Consortia Earthquake Program Managers to train, collaborate and share Lessons Learned. Guest Speakers this year included Kris Hamlet, Director, Utah Division of Emergency Management, Dave Applegate, Associate Director for Natural Hazards, USGS and David Maurstad, Deputy Associate Administrator, FEMA.

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Accomplishments

New Publications and Technical Manuals

• FEMA P-2018, Seismic Evaluation of Older Concrete Buildings for Collapse Potential
• FEMA P-1100, Vulnerability-Based Seismic Assessment and Retrofit of One-and-Two-Family

Dwellings

• FEMA P-2006, Example Application Guide for ASC/SEI 41-13 Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of

Existing Building; with additional Commentary for ASCE/SEI 41-17

• Phase two of FEMA’s Performance Based Seismic Design (PBSD) project is now complete. All

seven volumes of new User Guides (P-58 series) have been submitted for printing

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Accomplishments

National, Regional and Individual State Assistance

• Supported the largest ShakeOut drill ever conducted (October 18, 2018)
• Provided over $2.8 million to multi-state groups for activities ranging from Seismic Screenings to

Earthquake Early Warning Systems (EEWS) awareness

• Conducted over 40 individual technical training session for individual States and Territories

through the National Technical Assistance Program (NETAP)

• Continue to support the National business community through the FEMA “QuakeSmart” program
• Provided Earthquake Clearinghouse support in Alaska following the November 30 earthquake

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Accomplishments

Support for Model Building Code Adoption and Enforcement

• Continue to monitor the International Code Council (ICC) model building code update

process through our Seismic Code Support Committee (SCSC).

• Are currently engaged in the 2021 ICC Code update at the Code Action Hearing

(CAH), April 28-May 8, 2019.

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Summary

The combination of enthusiastic senior leadership support, inter-agency collaboration, and a cadre of talented professionals at all levels, will allow FEMA to simultaneously advance three key pieces of legislation, a National Mitigation Investment Strategy (NMIS), and five FEMA Earthquake Initiatives in 2019; making it one of the most ambitious years on record for the FEMA earthquake program. Our Agency is excited about the future of NEHRP.

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