{"id":2406,"date":"2013-11-25T11:01:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T16:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2013-11-25T11:01:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T16:01:55","slug":"second-round-of-sandy-relief-money-conditioned-on-future-sea-level-rise-risk-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2013\/11\/25\/second-round-of-sandy-relief-money-conditioned-on-future-sea-level-rise-risk-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Round of Sandy Relief Money Conditioned on Future Sea Level Rise Risk Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ethan I. Strell, Esq.\r\n<\/i><\/b>Associate Director and Fellow\r\nColumbia Center for Climate Change Law<\/i><\/b> \r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
On Monday November 18, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published a Federal Register Notice setting forth the requirements for the second round of relief funds appropriated by the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013 (Relief Act).[1]<\/a>\u00a0 Importantly, HUD\u2019s notice requires that grantees must develop and submit a comprehensive, science-based risk analysis that includes future risk due to climate change in order to receive the funds.<\/p>\n
The Relief Act authorized $16 billion in relief funds, administered through HUD’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program.\u00a0 As with any CDBG grant, in order to receive relief funds, grantees must prepare and submit to HUD an action plan detailing how the money will be used.\u00a0 In order to receive the second allocation under the Relief Act, totaling approximately $5.1 billion\u2014principally for \u201cinfrastructure\u201d such as energy, communications, water, wastewater, transportation, and flood control\u2014grantees will need to submit an amended action plan.[2]<\/a><\/p>\n
Notably, second round action plans must include a \u201ccomprehensive risk analysis\u201d that the grantee will use to prioritize, implement, and maintain infrastructure projects.\u00a0 Risk analyses must include the best available data, including \u201cforward-looking analyses of risks to infrastructure sectors from climate change and other hazards\u2026.\u201d[3]<\/a>\u00a0 In conducting the risk analysis, grantees should consider the costs and benefits of alternative investments, including \u201cgreen infrastructure,\u201d and should assess \u201cchanges to climate and development patterns that could affect the project or surrounding communities\u2026.\u201d\u00a0 Major infrastructure projects, which cost at least $50 million (at least $10 million of which is federal relief funds), must be described separately in the action plan amendment, and must be specifically discussed in the comprehensive risk analysis.\u00a0 The requirements in this Notice are guided by the recommendations in the August 2013 \u201cHurricane Sandy Rebuilding Strategy\u201d[4]<\/a> prepared by the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, as well as HUD\u2019s \u201cRebuild by Design\u201d competition.[5]<\/a><\/p>\n
While these conditions only apply to Relief Act funds, the Notice is significant in that the overall HUD CDBG program is enormous and widespread,[6]<\/a> and these requirements will likely migrate to non-Sandy relief programs.\u00a0 The Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Strategy itself includes a recommendation that an interagency process be established \u201cto assess the value and feasibility of expanding the use of the Guidelines beyond the Sandy recovery efforts,\u201d[7]<\/a> and President Obama\u2019s recent climate change resiliency executive order will further move federal agencies in this direction.[8]<\/a><\/p>\n
Grantees must publish their amended action plans on their public websites for at least 30 days, and hold at least one public hearing, a new requirement.\u00a0 Grantees must respond to public comments and submit the revised plan to HUD within 120 days of the Notice, which comes to March 18, 2014.\u00a0 HUD must then respond to the revision within 60 days.<\/p>\n
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[1]<\/a> 78 Fed. Reg. 69104, Nov. 18, 2013, https:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/FR-2013-11-18\/pdf\/2013-27506.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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[2]<\/a> The grantees are: New York City ($1.4B, New York State ($2.1B), New Jersey ($1.5B), Connecticut ($66M), Maryland ($20M), and Rhode Island ($16M).\u00a0 The first allocation of disaster relief money, totaling $5.4 billion, was approved in March, 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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[3]<\/a> 78 Fed. Reg. at 69107, \u00a7VI(2)(d).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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[4]<\/a> https:\/\/portal.hud.gov\/hudportal\/documents\/huddoc?id=HSRebuildingStrategy.pdf.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rebuildbydesign.org<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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[6]<\/a> In existence since 1974, the CDBG program provides funds to over 1,200 state and local governments nationwide.\u00a0 For instance, the federal money to rebuild Lower Manhattan after the 9\/11 attacks was administered through the CDBG program.\u00a0 See, e.g.<\/i>, https:\/\/www.renewnyc.com\/fundinginitiatives\/.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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[7]<\/a> Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Strategy, Recommendation 5, at 53.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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[8]<\/a> Executive Order, Nov. 1, 2013, \u201cPreparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change, https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/11\/01\/executive-order-preparing-united-states-impacts-climate-change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ethan I. Strell, Esq. 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