Event Title
Start Date
27-10-2017 11:30 AM
End Date
27-10-2017 12:00 PM
Abstract
Abstract: Hurricane Harvey ravaged Texas and Louisiana nearly five years after Superstorm Sandy devastated the East Coast and caused 53 deaths, destroyed or severely damaged 100,000 Long Island homes, and left an estimated $42 billion in damages across New York State.
This session will provide an overview of the disaster relief and assistance programs available under the Stafford Act, when they are triggered, and how private non-profit and cultural institutions can plan for natural hazards and take full advantage of available aid. There will also be discussion of the NYS Hazard Mitigation Plan, the Community Risk and Resiliency Act, and other efforts being coordinated by NYS agencies to enhance the State’s resiliency posture.
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Archaeological Anthropology Commons, Architectural History and Criticism Commons, Art and Materials Conservation Commons, Arts Management Commons, Cultural Resource Management and Policy Analysis Commons, Fine Arts Commons, Forensic Science and Technology Commons, Geographic Information Sciences Commons, Historic Preservation and Conservation Commons, International Relations Commons, Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons
Mitigation, Response and Recovery
Abstract: Hurricane Harvey ravaged Texas and Louisiana nearly five years after Superstorm Sandy devastated the East Coast and caused 53 deaths, destroyed or severely damaged 100,000 Long Island homes, and left an estimated $42 billion in damages across New York State.
This session will provide an overview of the disaster relief and assistance programs available under the Stafford Act, when they are triggered, and how private non-profit and cultural institutions can plan for natural hazards and take full advantage of available aid. There will also be discussion of the NYS Hazard Mitigation Plan, the Community Risk and Resiliency Act, and other efforts being coordinated by NYS agencies to enhance the State’s resiliency posture.
Speaker Information
Rick Lord is the NY State Hazard Mitigation Officer and the Chief of Mitigation Programs for the NYS Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services (DHSES), which administers FEMA disaster recovery programs in New York. Key undertakings include projects protecting critical NYC infrastructure after 911, acquiring or elevating at-risk homes in floodplains using $128 million received after Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, and resiliency projects totaling nearly $1.5 billion after Superstorm Sandy. After Irene and Lee, DHSES also oversaw grants creating 19 FEMA-approved hazard mitigation plans evaluating natural hazards affecting 13.4 million New Yorkers.
Prior to joining DHSES, Lord spent 22 years with the NY State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) where he served as technical reviewer for FEMA-funded projects, and served as office lead for the new U.S. Courthouse on historic Niagara Square in Buffalo, HUD’s $131 million Erie Canal Corridor Initiative, and NPS studies to rehabilitate the South Side of Ellis Island. Prior to that, he worked to develop low- and -moderate income housing in neighborhoods around the NYS Capitol in Albany. He received a B.Arch from RPI in Troy, NY in 1981.