Chief Patron: Bennett-Parker
Joint Subcommittee on Coastal Flooding Workgroup

Item 6 #6h

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"The Joint Subcommittee on Coastal Flooding shall establish a workgroup to address issues related to inland flooding in communities across the Commonwealth that causes extensive, often recurring, damage to private property and public infrastructure. The workgroup shall initiate an effort to develop a comprehensive and coordinated planning effort to address recurrent flooding in inland areas across the Commonwealth, including but not limited to: (i) considering more stringent state regulations to reduce flooding to increase resiliency at the local level; (ii) assessing the cost effectiveness of green infrastructure versus grey infrastructure to mitigate flooding; (iii) considering state grant funding opportunities for disbursement at local levels to provide for mitigation on private property, including but not limited to floodproofing; (iv) creating a toolbox of flood mitigation and resiliency strategies to target pluvial or flash flooding; and (v) consideration of implementation of more stringent state-wide, regional, and/or urban intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves related to design storms. The workgroup shall provide recommendations and solutions, both short-term and long-term, for mitigating and resolving the impacts of inland flooding, including infrastructure investments, development standards, permit requirements, and grant and tax incentive programs to plan for and address these issues. The workgroup shall include members of the Joint Subcommittee on Coastal Flooding and additional stakeholders with experience and expertise to address the multidisciplinary nature of the issue of inland flooding, including stakeholders with experience and expertise in infrastructure, zoning, building codes, land use planning, public safety, environmental issues, the science of both fluvial and pluvial flooding, as well as representatives of rural and urban localities experiencing recurring inland flooding. The workgroup shall complete its work by September 30, 2022, and submit its findings and recommendations to the Joint Subcommittee on Coastal Flooding no later than November 1, 2022 in order to advise legislation and budget requests for the 2023 General Assembly Session."