NEHRP ACEHR MeetingFEMA Update

November 2016

Edward M. Laatsch, P.E.Director, Planning, Safety & Building Science Division

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• Improve understanding of earthquake processes and impacts.

• Develop cost-effective measures to reduce earthquake impacts on individuals, the built environment, and society-at-large.

• Improve the earthquake resilience of communities nationwide.

NEHRP Goals

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FEMA NEHRP Priorities• Building Codes and Standards• Guidance and Tools (books, software,

training)• Program Implementation and Outreach

(awareness campaigns, media, articles, initiatives)

• Consortia Partnerships• Support for Regional EQ Program

Managers• Disaster Support (SME, post-event studies)• Critical Infrastructure (not doing this)

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FEMA NEHRP HQEdward Laatsch, P.E. – Division

Director

Bill Blanton – Branch Chief

Andrew Herseth - Building Science

Mike Mahoney – Codes/Special Projects

Gabrielle ‘David’ Javier –Program Implementation

Wendy Phillips – Outreach

Tammy Roy – Management Analyst

Mai ‘Mike’ Tong – PhD. - EQ New Buildings Guidance

FEMA’s National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program

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Regional EQ Program Managers

Mike Hornick*

GalaGulacsik

Sean McGowan*

Cheickh Komo*

Noriko Boston

Scott Bailey*

Bart Moore*

Stephanie Nixon

Samuel Campasso

Paul Morey

* Acting in position

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Updates• Earthquake E.O. Implementation Plan

• New FEMA Policies on Building Codes• Recovery Policy for PA• Disaster Risk Reduction Minimum Codes & Stds

• Building Codes Update• Recent ICC Hearing• Efforts to weaken the codes• Tracking disaster resistant codes

• NIBS Mitigation Saves Study Update

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Earthquake E.O. Implementation Plan

ICSSC Recommended Practice (RP) 9

Implementation Guidelines for

Executive Order 13717:

Establishing a Federal Earthquake Risk

Management Standard

Agency Seismic Safety Coordinator Review Draft - 09/30/16

Pre-Decisional Document - Not for Public Release

John R. Hayes, Jr. Steven L. McCabe Michael Mahoney

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Earthquake E.O. Implementation Plan• EO 13717 addresses seismic safety for all

new or existing buildings that are owned or leased by the Federal agencies, in the U.S. and its territories and possessions.

• Addresses seismic safety considerations for Federal programs that assist in the financing of newly constructed buildings through Federal grants or loans, loan guarantees, or mortgage insurance.

• Outlines agency responsibilities for achieving these seismic safety measures.

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Earthquake E.O. Implementation Plan• EO 13717 applies to all Federal agencies

that are responsible for:• Designing and constructing new Federally-owned

buildings;• Owning (and maintaining) existing Federal

buildings, including activities to alter or maintain those buildings;

• Leasing all or portions of buildings for Federal use;• Assisting in the financing, through grants or loans,

or guaranteeing the financing through loan or mortgage insurance of newly constructed buildings; and

• Regulating structural safety of new buildings.

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Model Building Codes• State/local building codes are one of the most effective

mitigation strategies to reduce earthquake losses. • However, building codes only provide the minimum level

necessary for life safety and not for loss prevention.

• FEMA’s design guidance products are key inputs into model building codes such as International Building Code.

• Building codes are adopted in some form by the state or local government; enforcement is at the local level.

• FEMA monitors the model building code process to ensure that codes provide adequate seismic protection.

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New FEMA Policies on Building CodesRecovery Policy for Public Assistance (PA) -

• In conjunction with Administrator Fugate’s Priorities and the Mitigation Federal Leadership Group (MitFLG) FEMA has issued 2 important Building Codes Policies.

• Represent a profound shift from treating PA as the reimbursement of costs to rebuild to the pre-existing code level one that requires use of the latest hazard-resistant provisions found in the model codes.

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New FEMA Policies on Building CodesDisaster Risk Reduction Min Codes & Stds –

• FEMA programs, where legally allowable, consistently require the use of consensus-based codes and standards.

• FEMA programs and offices shall adopt as appropriate regulations, policies, grant conditions to encourage state, local, tribal, and territorial adoption and enforcement of hazard-resistant building codes, standards, and provisions that reduce disaster risk.

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New FEMA Policies on Building CodesDisaster Risk Reduction Min Codes & Stds –

• With input from FEMA programs and offices, the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration’s Building Sciences Division informs the update of, and provides technical assistance regarding, nationally recognized voluntary consensus-based building codes and standards.

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Building Codes UpdateRecent Hearing on 2018 I Codes –

• Covered International Building Code, Existing Building Code, & Residential Codes.

• 4 FEMA earthquake changes were accepted into the 2018 I-Codes pending final online voting along with 3 previously approved changes. FEMA provided testimony on 34 change proposals (15 for and 19 against) and all were successful.

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Building Codes UpdateEfforts to weaken the codes –

• IRC requires all homes in in SFHA’s to be elevated with 12” of additional height (freeboard) about the NFIP minimum base flood elevation. We are seeing signs in some areas, that when adopting the 2015 I-Codes these requirements are being dropped by the State/local codes.

• Louisiana Is currently proposing to drop freeboard from their state codes.

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Building Codes UpdateTracking disaster resistant codes –

• Progress continues to be made across the country in adopting disaster-resistant codes. Our latest data from ISO shows approximately 68% of all jurisdictions subject to one or more natural hazards (seismic, hurricane or flood) are using the IBC and IRC without any weakening of the disaster-resistant provisions in the codes.

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NIBS Mitigation Saves Study Update• Create overall analysis framework &

integrate /report the analysis results.

• Perform rigorous, defensible BCA of enhanced structural design requirements for facilities to resist EQ, flood, wind, wildfire.

• Perform BCA analyses on mitigation grants since first study in 2005.

• Building Owners, insurers, utilities others use results to inform resilience measure decisions.

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NIBS Mitigation Saves Study Update

Module 1 Overall framework and integration of subsequent modules

Module 2 Enhanced design requirements for new facilities to resist hazards

Module 3 Retrofit of existing facilities

Module 4 Business continuity planning

Module 5 Utility and transportation infrastructure mitigation programs

Module 6APublic-sector mitigation grants and loans funded by FEMA and other agencies

Module 6B Public-sector non-grant mitigation

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NIBS Mitigation Saves Study UpdateCURRENT FUNDING UPDATE – (FEMA and other Agency funding support – see details below)

M I T I G A T I O N SAVES 2. 0 A P P R O X I M ATE M ODULE F U N D I N G AS OF AUGUST, 2016

Dollar Amount Required Currently Funded

M OD U L E 1 M OD U L E 2 M OD U L E 3 M OD U L E 4 M OD U L E 5 M O D U L E 6A M O D U L E 6B OT H E R F U N D S

$775

,000

$775

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NIBS Mitigation Saves Study Update

Received study proposal from NIBS MARCH 2016

Presented Study Briefing at MitFLG meeting APRIL 2016

Received revised study from NIBS APRIL 2016

Development of all contract elements MAY-JULY 2016

OCPO sent Request for Proposal to NIBS AUGUST 2016

Receive Proposal from NIBS SEPTEMBER 2016

Award Funding SEPTEMBER 2016

Initial Report (The Contractor shall deliver documentation of the cost-effectiveness of an initial sample -approximately 1/3 of total input data).

JANUARY 2017

Feedback Workshop and Draft report Due AUGUST 2017

Final report due AUGUST 2017

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Collaborating with Other Organizations

Outreach and Implementation

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