NEHRP ACEHR:

FEMA Briefing

Edward LaatschFEMA, Risk Management Directorate

National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP)

NEHRP was formed by Congress in 1977 to lead federal government efforts “to reduce the risks of life and property from future earthquakes in the US…”

Program Goals:

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.

FEMA’s Priorities Under NEHRP Support Building Codes and Standards for new and

existing structures; Develop Guidance and Tools (books, software, training); A listing of ~100 FEMA Earthquake Program publications is at:

http://www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/earthquake/pubindex.shtm

Program Implementation and Outreach (awareness campaigns, media, articles, initiatives); Support multi-state Consortia and Partnerships; Support for State EQ Programs; Disaster Support (SME, post-event studies); Critical Infrastructure (not doing this).

FEMA NEHRP HQ Staff Edward Laatsch, P.E. –

Division Director

Bill Blanton – Branch Chief

Andrew Herseth - EQ Existing Buildings Guidance

Mike Mahoney –Codes/Special Projects

Gabrielle ‘David’ Javier –Program Implementation

Wendy Phillips – Outreach

Tammy Roy – Management Analyst

Mai ‘Mike’ Tong – EQ New Buildings Guidance

FEMA’s National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program

Regional EQ Program Managers

Forest Lanning

GalaGulacsik

Sean McGowan

Cheickh Komo

Noriko Boston

Scott Bailey

Bart Moore

Stephanie Nixon

Jose Lebron

Paul Morey

Completed: FEMA School Safety Guide A new school safety guide that is based

on DoEd Planning Guide and provides general guidance on multiple natural hazards, as well as supplemental guidance specific to earthquakes, others.

Guidance for administrators and staff on: What to do operationally before, during and after a natural hazard event; Physical protection of school facilities (i.e., retrofit and considerations for new school construction).

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Focused on K-12 public schools, applicable to private schools. Meant to equip school safety advocates and stakeholders with

information, tools and resources. Empowers decision-makers by providing actionable advice.

Completed Projects HAZUS Estimated Annual Earthquake Losses (FEMA P-366) Based on USGS data, printed document published and available.

Recommended Simplified Provisions for Seismic Design Category B Buildings (FEMA P-1091) Simplified design provisions for low seismic risk region (SDC B). NEHRP Provisions Chapter 24, now an alternate to ASCE 7-16

Performance-Based Seismic Design for Tall Buildings (FEMA P-1092). (Joint FEMA/PEER update to their original guide) Developed by PEER, over $1m funding by Pankow Foundation. FEMA contributed $50K and is printing a joint paper document.

Improving Earthquake Performance of Manufactured Homes Training course developed for FEMA by ATC that covers

earthquake resistant installation of manufactured housing.

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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 life safety minimum level.

FEMA’s design guidance products are inputs into I Codes.

Building codes are adopted in some form by all 50 states or local government; enforcement is at the local level.

FEMA has long history of working with the codes: Dates back to 1985 for flood and 1990 for earthquake.

OMB Circular A-119 and Technology Transfer Act Requires agencies to use available codes where possible. Encourages agencies to participate in the code process.

Update on Building Codes FEMA monitors the model building code process to

ensure that codes provide adequate seismic protection. This was done with the Code Resource Support Committee (CRSC).

Task order to operate the CRSC with NIBS/BSSC expired end of 2016 and FEMA elected NOT to renew it.

New task order awarded to Applied Technology Council (ATC) to run a new Code Support Committee (CSC). Increased focus on education and outreach to work with state and

local adoptions and enforcement. New CSC Chair is Kelly Cobeen (Steve Winkel stepped down with his

retirement from practice). New CSC is currently being formed and will meet for the first time in

September. Similar make-up but with more outreach resources.

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Update on Building Codes 2018 edition of the I Codes are complete

and will be released by ICC shortly.

2021 update cycle of the I Codes will begin with Group A code change proposal deadline in January 2018. Group A codes are fire, plumbing, means of

egress, etc. We anticipate submitting few, if any, code change

proposals.

Group B codes begin with code change proposal deadline in January 2019. Group B will be IBC Structural, IEBC, IRC Building,

among others. This will be the bulk of our activities.

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Building Codes Update There have been several recent actions by different

states to weaken their building codes that are of concern.

Arkansas state legislature recently weakened their seismic code provisions at the request of a new manufacturing firm. The firm, Nucor, a steel producer. We plan to express our concern to our steel industry contacts.

Florida just past a new law that mandates that all future editions of the Florida Building Code will NOT be based on future editions of the International Codes. All future changes will need to be submitted directly to the state. While not seismic, this is a very serious concern, especially if other

states follow suit. We are still discussing what actions we can take.

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

FEMA has issued two new Building Codes Policies. These represent a profound shift from treating PA as the

reimbursement of costs to rebuild now requires use of the hazard-resistant provisions found in the latest model codes.

FEMA programs, where legally allowable, will 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.

NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions

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2015 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures (FEMA P-1050) Part 1: Major Changes (to ASCE 7); Part 2: Commentary (explanation of changes); Part 3: Resource Papers (new material/issues)

Primary resource for ASCE/SEI 7-16 and the 2018 IBC and IRC.

Update for 2020 edition underway. Provisions Update Committee (PUC);

consists of 21 subject matter experts. 11 Issue Teams, 3 Study Groups,

involving over 200 volunteer experts.

Project 17 The 2020 update of the NEHRP Recommended Seismic

Provisions includes Project 17, to develop the next generation seismic design value maps. Conceived and sponsored by FEMA through our ongoing

NIBS/BSSC task order. Over 30 national subject matter experts and USGS, NIST and

FEMA scientists are involved as volunteers. Currently working to develop an approach for balancing new

knowledge of earthquake science and uncertainty in design ground motions.

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Performance-Based Seismic Design Project Phase 1: PACT 3.0 update recently released.

The goal of Phase 2 is to use FEMA P-58 Assessment Methodology developed under Phase 1 to develop Design Guidelines to assist design professionals to: Develop efficient performance-based designs. Quantify performance of typical code-conforming buildings. Guidance on simplified design to achieve performance objectives.

A second but equal goal of Phase 2 is to develop User Guides to assist building owners and decision makers in selecting appropriate performance objectives.

Phase 2 of the PBSD Project will be done early 2018. Support of PBSD work will continue through a task order with ATC.

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Update: Outreach Products Earthquake Safety Guide for Homeowners

(FEMA P-530) is obsolete and has been removed from circulation. This was one of our most popular publications.

We do not have funds for a separate full-scale update project, so we are doing this update in pieces using an existing ATC product update task order. Hazard Chapter has been rewritten by Lucy

Jones as an earthquake tour across the US. For the Mitigation Chapter, we are currently

staffing the development and review teams.

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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, and others use results to inform resilience measure decisions.

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 6A Public-sector mitigation grants and loans funded by FEMA andother agencies

Module 6B Public-sector non-grant mitigation

NIBS Mitigation Saves Study Update

Received study proposal from NIBS MARCH 2016Presented Study Briefing at MitFLG meeting APRIL 2016Received revised study from NIBS APRIL 2016

Development of all contract elements MAY-JULY 2016

OCPO sent Request for Proposal to NIBS AUGUST 2016Receive Proposal from NIBS SEPTEMBER 2016Award 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 2017Final report due AUGUST 2017

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QuakeSmart: Business Outreach QuakeSmart is FEMA’s earthquake business outreach

initiative to encourage mitigation. Encourages business owners to take three-step approach to

mitigation – know your risk; make a plan; get it done. Mitigation helps businesses minimize damage, protect investments,

and speed up the overall recovery. QuakeSmart: Earthquake Mitigation Toolkit (FEMA P-811).

QuakeSmart is operated for FEMA by FLASH. Location (and attendance) for 2017 events were: Long Beach (103),

Los Angeles (130), and Anchorage (93).

FY 2018 Proposed Budget

At this time, FEMA does not anticipate any cuts to its earthquake program funding.

Total FEMA Earthquake Program budget should remain at $8.5 million. Includes state assistance and consortia partner funding Includes Salaries and Expenses.

We do not anticipate any significant changes to our current spending plan or list of ongoing projects or activities.

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