FHWA Climate Change Adaptation Activities and F unding Opportunities

1. Office of Planning, Environment and Realty Sustainable Transport & Climate Change Team FHWA Climate Change Adaptation Activities and Funding Opportunities Robert Kafalenos, FHWA April 10, 2014 Photo: Flooding of the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel in NYC due to Hurricane Sandy. Source: MTA

2. FHWA Funding for Adaptation Work • FHWA released a memo on using Federal-aid and Federal Lands funding for adaptation activities to address • Extreme weather events • Climate change impacts • Three sections: Memo, Qs & As, Funding category-specific information • Clarifies eligibility for various activities • Planning (e.g., vulnerability assessments) • Design (e.g., designing to handle potential impacts) • Construction, etc. • Memo available at: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/federalaid/120924.cfm

3. Federal Lands and Tribal Transportation Program: Eligible activities include • Vulnerability and risk assessments to climate change and extreme weather events • Consideration of climate change and extreme weather events in project development, including environmental review and design work • Construction of projects or features to protect existing assets from impacts and damage • Evaluation of potential impacts of climate change and extreme weather events on asset management cycles, life cycle costs, etc.

4. FHWA Climate Resilience Resources • Gulf Coast Study, Phase 2 (2010-14) • Climate Resilience Pilots, (2nd round, 2013-14) • Hurricane Sandy Follow-up and Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Analysis (2013-15) • Hydraulic Engineering Circular No. 25, Volume 2 (2014) • Regional Climate Change Effects (2010) • National Climate Assessment (est. 2014), IPCC Assessments • Central New Mexico Climate Change Scenario Planning Project (2014-15) • Transportation Engineering Approaches to Address Adaptation and Resiliency (2014-15) • “Information: Eligibility of Activities To Adapt To Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events Under the Federal-Aid and Federal Lands Highway Program”(Sept. 2012) http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/climate_change/adaptation/

5. Gulf Coast 2 Project (Mobile, AL) Phase 1 Study Area • Primary Phase 2 Tasks • Task 1: Identify critical transportation assets in Mobile (complete) • Task 2: Identify climate effects, assess infrastructure sensitivity (complete) • Task 3: Assess vulnerability of critical assets (ongoing) • Task 4: Develop transferable risk management tools (2014) • Completed tasks available on the FHWA website Phase 2 Study Area Phase 2 performed by ICF International (prime), Parsons Brinckerhoff, South Coast Engineers, and Texas A&M, with support from USGS and Katharine Hayhoe (Texas Tech)

6. 2013-2014 Climate Resilience Pilot Program Pilots will use and build on FHWA’s Climate Change & Extreme Weather Vulnerability Assessment Framework 19 Pilots • Vulnerability and/or adaptation • Broad geographic coverage and range of impacts • Will further the state of practice in the emerging area of resilience to climate changes • FHWA will use lessons learned to turn the vulnerability assessment framework into an adaptation and resiliency framework Tennessee Maine Michigan Arizona Alaska Connecticut Massachusetts CAMPO (Austin) Broward MPO New York Iowa Maryland Minnesota California Oregon Washington Hillsboro MPO NCTCOG MTC (San Francisco)

7. Climate Resilience Pilot & Other Project Locations

8. Thank you http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/climate_change/adaptation/ http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/climate_change/adaptation/ongoing_and_current_research/summary/index.cfm • Sustainable Transport and Climate Change Team • FHWA Office of Natural Environment • Robert.Kafalenos@dot.gov