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Saturday, December 10, 2022
Thursday, March 16, 2023, 6pm - 9pm Los Angeles, CA Presented by Climate Resolve.
FEMA Announces Update to Partial Implementation of the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard for all Hazard Mitigation Assistance Programs
Aligning with Executive Order 14030–Climate-Related Financial Risk
to strengthen nationwide resilience, FEMA is issuing an updated policy to
partially implement the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard (FFRMS)
for Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) programs.
The policy supersedes the interim one issued in August 2021.
The Federal
Flood Risk Management Standard (FFRMS) aims to increase community resilience
against flooding. The update policy is effective on Dec. 7, 2022 and addresses
elevating and floodproofing requirements for structures using Hazard Mitigation
Assistance funding. The policy applies to structures that are using the funds
for mitigation activities such as elevation, mitigation reconstruction, dry
floodproofing, new construction, substantial improvement, and substantial
damage.
The policy sets
standards for critical actions to make structures like hospitals, nursing homes
and emergency operation centers more resilient. It also sets standards for
non-critical actions for structures—such as residential, commercial and
industrial buildings—that are located in high-risk flood areas.
This policy
update applies to any major disasters or Fire Management Assistance
declarations made on or after Dec. 7, 2022. And it applies to all Fiscal Year
2023 funding opportunities and future application cycles, unless stated in the
funding opportunity.
In addition to
this policy for Hazard Mitigation Assistance programs, Public Assistance issued an interim policy in
June 2022 for structures that are substantially damaged or need improvements.
These two partial implementation policies about the Federal Flood Risk
Management Standard allow FEMA to help make communities less vulnerable to
flooding.
California. Agricultural Land Equity Task Force Seeking Nominations
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Wildfire Destroys a Piece of Black History in Rural California.
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When
the Mill fire ripped through Weed, Calif., just before Labor Day weekend, the
hardest-hit area was a historically Black neighborhood that dates back nearly
a century.
Credit...Brian L. Frank for The New York Times
WEED, Calif. — The gray
rubble appears suddenly on both sides of the highway winding through this
small Northern California town, as houses give way to a landscape of charred
wreckage and the remains of homes, bleached white by wildfire. The devastation stretches for
blocks. Metal skeletons of cars and blackened trees indicate where properties
once stood in the shadow of Mount Shasta. This neighborhood, Lincoln
Heights, was once the thriving and vibrant home of a Black community — a rare
sight in predominantly white, rural Siskiyou County, which hugs the Oregon
border. Black laborers moved here from Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas to
work at a lumber mill in the 1920s, and their descendants continued to live
in houses on the outskirts of town, passed down through generations. For
decades, the mill next to Lincoln Heights offered opportunity and hope for
those seeking a job and a better life. Now, residents see it as a symbol of
the neighborhood’s destruction. Roseburg Forest Products, the mill’s owner,
has said it is investigating whether hot ash in its facility started the Mill fire, which ripped through Lincoln
Heights before exploding to 4,000 acres in early September. In Weed, the Mill
fire consumed most of Lincoln Heights, killing two people and destroying
nearly 60 homes. The park that served as a gathering place is all that
remains of the eastern side of the neighborhood. “You
can build that house back. But that home is a most special place,” said
Andrew Greene, 84, who raised his children in Lincoln Heights. “It’s a place
of culture, it’s a place of growth, it’s a place of remembrance and most of
all it’s a place of love.” The rapid blaze was the latest in a series of fires in California
that, as the climate warms, have leveled neighborhoods like Coffey Park in Santa Rosa, or towns like Paradise and Greenville. That devastation has forced wildfire victims
to choose between rebuilding or starting life anew elsewhere. The hints of life fro before the fire are few in Lincoln Heights. A
child’s bicycle abandoned on the side of the road. A pocket watch peeking
through debris. At one property, atop porch steps that lead nowhere, sits a
vase of fresh flowers as a memorial. In
the 1920s, hundreds of Black Southerners made the journey to rural Northern
California, lured by the promise of employment, for $3.60 a day, at the
sawmill owned by the Long-Bell Lumber Company, which had just closed two
mills in Louisiana as it searched for untouched forests out west. The
company lent workers the train fare and provided them with wooden houses amid
the aspens and pines in a small place called Weed. It was a company-owned,
segregated town, and Black mill workers and their families were required to
live on the northern outskirts. That neighborhood was known as the Quarters
and, later, Lincoln Heights………. Read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/us/california-lincoln-heights-wildfire.html |
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Black
Emergency Managers Association International
Washington,
D.C.
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Environmental Justice
Recovery\Homeless Shelters. U.S.
