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STATE OF MONTANA HAZARD MITIGATION STRATEGY 2013 UPDATE. Montana State Hazard Mitigation Coordinator: Kent Atwood 406-324-4782 Contractor: Tetra Tech, Inc. Daphne Digrindakis 406-443-5210. Flood Strategy. Goal 5 - Mitigate the Potential Loss of Life and Property from Flooding
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STATE OF MONTANA HAZARD MITIGATION STRATEGY2013 UPDATE Montana State Hazard Mitigation Coordinator: Kent Atwood 406-324-4782 Contractor: Tetra Tech, Inc. Daphne Digrindakis 406-443-5210
Flood Strategy • Goal 5 - Mitigate the Potential Loss of Life and Property from Flooding • 5.1 - Reduce the number of current and future structures in the floodplain. • 5.2 - Mitigate flooding of structures and infrastructure. • 5.3 - Increase public awareness of flood mitigation. • 5.4 - Improve the effectiveness of flood insurance programs.
Project 5.1.1 Encourage jurisdictions to pursue mitigation projects for repetitive loss structures or any severe repetitive loss properties identified in the future. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 26 (Low) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = Disaster & Emergency Services, DNRC-Water • Progress Made: Deer Lodge & Missoula Counties have HMGP acquisition projects through DR-1996 • Planned Activities: Acquisitions in Musselshell County and Harlem/Blaine County.
Project 5.1.2 Develop and improve upon model floodplain ordinances for local and tribal governments. • Planning Project • Score = 18 (High) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = DNRC-Water • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 5.1.3 Encourage appropriate entities to obtain conservation easements for land in floodplain • Planning Project • Score = 15 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = Mid-Range • Responsible Agency = MDT, MFWP, DNRC-Water, DES, Conservation Districts • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 5.2.1 Encourage mitigation projects that upgrade undersized bridges that inhibit water flow or those with scour potential. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 32 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = Disaster & Emergency Services, Dept. Transportation, DNRC-Water • Progress Made: Kearny Lane Bridge/Madison Co. HMGP project through DR-1996 and Main Street Bridge/Deer Lodge PDMC Project (2010). • Planned Activities: Potentially some for DR-4074
Project 5.2.2 Encourage communities at risk from ice jam flooding to apply for mitigation grants to install ice jam mitigation systems. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 36 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = Disaster & Emergency Services, Corps of Engineers • Progress Made: • Planned Activities: Trying to get Ennis and Twin Bridges to apply
Project 5.3.1 Continue to provide flood insurance education. • Planning Project • Score = 13 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = DNRC-Water, National Weather Service • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 5.3.2 Educate public on need to limit future development in the floodplain. • Planning Project • Score = 16 (High) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = DNRC-Water • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 5.3.3 Educate home and business owners on utility tie-downs. • Planning Project • Score = 14 (Medium) • State Priority = Low • Schedule = Mid-Range • Responsible Agency = DES, DNRC-Water, Labor & Industry-Building Codes • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 5.4.1 Provide outreach and technical assistance in joining the NFIP Community Rating System for reducing flood insurance premiums. • Planning Project • Score = 13 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = DNRC-Water • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 5.4.2 Develop mapping for flood prone areas without maps. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 26 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = DNRC-Water • Progress Made: Need list of DFIRMS completed • Planned Activities: Need priority list for next round of DFIRMs
Project 5.4.3 Update floodplain mapping from approximate to detailed maps. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 34 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = DNRC-Water • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 5.4.4 Establish a schedule for National Flood Insurance Program maps review and updates.IS THIS REDUNDANT – DELETE? • Planning Project • Score = 12 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = DNRC-Water • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 5.4.5 Encourage coordination between DES Coordinators, floodplain managers and land use planners. • Planning Project • Score = 12 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = Local Jurisdictions, Tribal Nations, DNRC-Water, DES • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Dam Failure Strategy • Goal 3 - Reduce impacts from Dam Failure Hazard • 3.1 - Reduce the risk of dam failure
Project 3.1.1 Obtain digitized inundation maps for federally-regulated high hazard dams for risk assessment. • Planning Project • Score = 19 (High) • State Priority = High • Schedule = Short Range • Responsible Agency = Disaster & Emergency Services • Progress Made: To extent practical, being done as part of 2013 State PDM Plan Update • Planned Activities: Coordinate with BuRec for inundation maps not released.
Project 3.1.2 Repair state high hazard dams with deficiencies. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 42 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = DNRC-Water, MFWP, Dept. Corrections, Montana Heritage Commission • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 3.1.3 Evaluate existing dams for hazard classification. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 40 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = Short Range • Responsible Agency = DNRC-Water, MFWP, Dept. Corrections, Montana Heritage Commission • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 3.1.4 Keep Emergency Action Plans current. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 40 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = DNRC-Water, MFWP, Dept. Corrections, Montana Heritage Commission • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 3.1.5 Exercise Emergency Action Plans every five years. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 34 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = DNRC-Water, MFWP, Dept. Corrections, Montana Heritage Commission • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 3.1.6 Encourage continued participation of local and tribal DES in DNRC dam safety table top exercises. • Planning Project • Score = 16 (High) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = DNRC-Water, DES • Progress Made: Kerr Dam/Lake County, Flint Creek Dam/Granite County • Planned Activities:
Earthquake Strategy • Goal 4- Reduce Potential Earthquake Losses in Seismically Prone Areas • 4.1 - Provide for earthquake resistance in new construction • 4.2 - Educate the public in earthquake mitigation and readiness. • 4.3 - Seismically retrofit existing critical facilities/infrastructure and government assets. • 4.4 - Implement non-structural mitigation projects to harden State and community assets and infrastructure from seismic hazards
Project 4.1.1 Integrate seismic resilience into significant building retrofits. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 63 (High) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = Dept. Administration • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 4.1.2 Adopt seismic requirements of updated International Code Council. • Planning Project • Score = 18 (High) • State Priority = Medium • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = Dept. Labor & Industry-Building Codes • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 4.2.1 Continue “Earthquake Preparedness Month” outreach activities during the month of October. • Planning Project • Score = 11 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = Disaster & Emergency Services • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 4.2.2 Continue presentations and distribution of earthquake awareness materials. • Planning Project • Score = 11 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = Disaster & Emergency Services?? • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 4.2.3 Expand and upgrade the earthquake monitoring network and information reporting capabilities in high hazard areas. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 34 (Medium) • State Priority = Medium • Schedule = Mid-Range • Responsible Agency = Montana Bureau of Mines & Geology • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 4.2.4 Quantify seismic hazards posed by faults. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 32 (Medium) • State Priority = Medium • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 4.3.1 Survey and install utility shut-off valves at all state buildings in the Intermountain Seismic Belt. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 60 (High) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = All State Agencies • Progress Made: Projects at MLEA, Creative Arts Center/MSU-Bozeman. • Planned Activities: City of Helena Seismic, Mathews Hall/UM Western
Project 4.3.2 At the Capitol Complex in Helena, seismically retrofit buildings with most vulnerability and highest occupancy to mitigate loss. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 48 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = Dept. Administration • Progress Made: Completed Tier 1 seismic evaluations of Capitol Complex buildings and identified structural and non-structural vulnerabilities. • Planned Activities:
Project 4.3.3 At Montana University System campuses in the Intermountain Seismic Belt, seismically retrofit most vulnerable and highest occupancy buildings. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 45 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = Dept. Administration, University System • Progress Made: Completed Tier 1 seismic evaluations of University buildings and identified structural and non-structural vulnerabilities. Received PDMC grant to seismically retrofit Creative Arts Center at MSU-Bozeman. • Planned Activities: Have pending HMGP project through DR-1996 to seismically retrofit Mathews Hall at UM-Western.
Project 4.3.4 At the Montana Dept. of Corrections facilities in Deer Lodge, improve support systems and implement seismic upgrades to ensure security and maintain operation. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 17 (Low) • State Priority = High • Schedule = Mid-Range • Responsible Agency = Dept. Administration, Dept. Corrections • Progress Made: Completed Tier 1 seismic evaluations of Dept. Correction buildings and identified structural and non-structural vulnerabilities. • Planned Activities:
Project 4.3.5 At the Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs, seismically harden buildings and expand support systems to assure continued operation and meet medical needs. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 18 (Low) • State Priority = High • Schedule = Mid-Range • Responsible Agency = Dept. Administration • Progress Made: Completed Tier 1 seismic evaluations of MT State Hospital buildings and identified structural and non-structural vulnerabilities. • Planned Activities:
Project 4.3.6 At the Montana Developmental Center and Riverside in Boulder, implement seismic upgrades. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 17 (Low) • State Priority = High • Schedule = Mid-Range • Responsible Agency = Dept. Administration, Dept. Corrections, Dept. Public Health & Human Services • Progress Made: Completed Tier 1 seismic evaluations of several MDC buildings and identified structural and non-structural vulnerabilities. • Planned Activities:
Project 4.3.7 Conduct seismic evaluations of state-owned buildings in the intermountain seismic belt (including utility tunnels and infrastructure systems) to identify where seismic retrofits are necessary. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 38 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = Mid-Range • Responsible Agency = Dept. Administration • Progress Made: Completed Tier 1 seismic evaluations of 114 state-owned buildings at 15 campus/locations and identified structural and non-structural vulnerabilities. • Planned Activities:
Project 4.3.8 Encourage local jurisdictions and tribal nations in the Intermountain Seismic Belt to conduct seismic evaluations of their critical facilities. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 63 (High) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = Disaster & Emergency Services, Local Jurisdictions, Tribal Nations • Progress Made: Local PDM Plan updates have identified this as a mitigation project. Without funding, implementation uncertain. • Planned Activities:
Project 4.3.9 Encourage and educate businesses in the Intermountain Seismic Belt to implement seismic retrofit projects. • Planning Project • Score = 17 (High) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = Disaster & Emergency Services • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 4.3.10 Encourage private utilities in Intermountain Seismic Belt to retrofit their systems for seismic stability. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 26 (Low) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = Disaster & Emergency Services, Utilities • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 4.4.1 Implement non-structural projects at state buildings in the Intermountain Seismic Belt. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 19 (Low) • State Priority = High • Schedule = Mid-Range • Responsible Agency = All State Agencies, University System • Progress Made: Completed Tier 1 seismic evaluations of 114 state-owned buildings at 15 campus/locations and identified non-structural deficiencies. Received PDMC grant to seismically retrofit (including non-structural elements) Creative Arts Center at MSU-Bozeman. Have pending HMGP projects through DR-1996 to seismically retrofit (including non-structural elements) Mathews Hall at UM-Western and Montana Law Enforcement Academy in Helena (non-structural only). • Planned Activities:
Wildfire Strategy • Goal 9 - Reduce the Community Impacts of Wildland and Rangeland Fires • 9.1 - Reduce fuels in the WUI • 9.2 - Enhance community awareness of wildfires through education • 9.3 - Establish mapping or record keeping practices to support fuel management strategies
Project 9.1.1 Conduct wildland fuel reduction on state property including parks, day-use facilities and highway rights-of-way. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 36 (Medium) • State Priority = Medium • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = DNRC-Fire, MFWP, MDT • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 9.1.2 Encourage fuel reduction in the WUI on local jurisdiction, tribal nation, and privately owned lands. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 40 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = DNRC-Fire, Disaster & Emergency Services, FireSafe Montana • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 9.1.3 Encourage utilities and private landowners to conduct fuel reduction in right-of-ways. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 34 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = Utilities, DNRC-Fire, FireSafe Montana • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 9.1.4 Participate in the coordination of mitigation projects of federal lands adjacent to state/private holdings. • Non-Planning Project • Score = 28 (Low) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = DNRC-Fire, USFS, BLM, DES, BuRec, FireSafe Montana, Tribal Nations • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 9.1.5 Encourage biomass utilization from wildland fuel mitigation projects. • Planning Project • Score = 11 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = DNRC-Fire, DES, FireSafe Montana • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 9.2.1 Promote public responsibility for defensible/survivable space in the WUI. • Planning Project • Score = 14 (Medium) • State Priority = On-going • Schedule = Responsible Agency = DNRC-Fire, FireSafe Montana, Keep Montana Green, Governor’s Office Community Services • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 9.2.2 Educate landowners in fuel reduction. • Planning Project • Score = 12 (Medium) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = DNRC-Fire, FireSafe Montana, Keep Montana Green • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 9.2.3 Continue to support and fund the statewide FireSafe Montana organization that gathers, disseminates and assists counties and other political subdivisions with grant information, project development and operations. • Planning Project • Score = 14 (Medium) • State Priority = Medium • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = DES, USFS, BLM, DNRC-Fire • Progress Made: • Planned Activities:
Project 9.2.4 Market fuel mitigation as a proper response to wildland fuel hazards.IS THIS REDUNDANT – DELETE? • Planning Project • Score = 17 (High) • State Priority = High • Schedule = On-going • Responsible Agency = DES, FireSafe Montana, DNRC-Fire • Progress Made: • Planned Activities: