The General Assembly codified the Virginia Coastal Resilience Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) in 2022 under § 10.1-659. Flood protection programs; coordination to assist with developing, updating, and implementing the Virginia Coastal Resilience Master Plan (CRMP).
The TAC shall ensure that
risk evaluations and project prioritization protocols are regularly updated and are informed by the best applicable scientific and technical data;
statewide and regional needs are addressed using the best applicable science and long-term resilience approaches; and
the Virginia Coastal Resilience Master Planning Framework is adhered to in the development and updating of the Virginia Coastal Resilience Master Plan.
The TAC shall meet at least quarterly. All TAC meetings are public meetings and will be posted to the DCR Dam Safety & Floodplain Management Calendar as well as the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall.
At each meeting the TAC will review updates to the Virginia Coastal Resilience Master Plan and receive updates about the progress of the Virginia Flood Protection Master Plan. Additionally, the TAC may be called upon to assist DCR with the development and updating of the Virginia Flood Protection Master Plan.
The Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) serves as chairman of the TAC. The Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Special Assistant to the Governor for Coastal Adaptation and Protection (SACAP), and the Coastal Zone Management Program (DEQ CZM) provide staff support to the Committee.
To request records from the TAC or Subcommittees, direct your request to the Department's FOIA Officer, Michael Fletcher. He can be reached at 600 E. Main St., 24th Floor, Richmond, VA 23219, phone 804-786-8445, email michael.fletcher@dcr.virginia.gov. You may also contact him with questions you have concerning requesting records from the Department. In addition, the Freedom of Information Advisory Council is available to answer any questions you may have about FOIA. The Council may be contacted by email at foiacouncil@leg.state.va.us, or by phone at 804-225-3056 or [toll-free] 1-866-448-4100.
Subcommittees
Project Prioritization Subcommittee Objectives
Inform and support the flood hazard risk assessment.
Specifically, the asset data inputs; the approach to quantifying the vulnerability of assets; and impact assessment outputs needed to support decision-making, coordination, and collaboration.
Inform and support the identification of planned resilience actions.
Specifically, identify shared themes, and gap trends between projects and initiatives submitted to the Coastal Resilience Web Explorer User Portal.
Develop recommendations for future planning.
This includes, but is not limited to:
Identify goals and associated metrics for resilience that should be used to determine project/needs evaluation and prioritization in future plans.
Develop objective protocols for evaluating and prioritizing identified project needs for the Coastal Region.
Develop a process and object protocols for evaluating and prioritizing resilience actions. (Consider separate evaluation protocols for critical human, built, and natural infrastructure needs.)
Funding Subcommittee Objectives
Inform quantification of financial needs for flood resilience.
What funding needs and information should be included in the CRMP Phase II, including to guide appropriations needs?
Identify and examine financial tools and processes that are suited and/or needed to implement flood resilience.
Identify challenges/opportunities to implementing financial tools.
Develop recommendations for future planning. This includes, but is not limited to:
Recommend approach to quantifying and presenting financial need for flood resilience during future planning efforts.
Research, Data, and Innovation Subcommittee Objectives
Inform development of Flood Hazard Exposure Model.
Using the best available data, provide recommendations to DCR and Dewberry to select pluvial modeling approach (including climate scenarios), advise on the selection of fluvial modeling data and scenarios, and advise on approach to compound flooding joint probability analysis.
Inform Inputs to Flood Hazard Risk Assessment.
Based on the flood hazard exposure model developed, advise DCR and Dewberry on how to employ the flood hazard model for conducting the flood hazard risk assessment.
Develop recommendations for future planning. This includes, but is not limited to:
Develop a data development plan to fill gaps in advance of future planning processes. Consider research and data products that can meet the state’s needs.
Advise on innovations suited to address flood risks and fill gaps in resilience action for future planning efforts. Consider R&D, public-private partnerships, collaborative research.
Outreach and Coordination Subcommittee Objectives
Inform and support outreach and engagement for the CRMP Phase II.
Specifically: Identify and prioritize stakeholders to engage; advise on purpose, goals and strategies for stakeholder engagement consistent with DCR’s COEP; guide implementation of engagement strategies.
Strengthen relationships with key stakeholders identified as critical to engaging in the CRMP Phase II.
Examples include, but are not limited to minority communities, Tribal Nations, the Department of Defense, critical infrastructure facility owners, and owners of other federal facilities.
Develop recommendations for future planning. This includes, but is not limited to:
Identifying sustainable outreach and engagement goals and strategies for state support to build coastal resilience beyond CRMP Phase II.
Developing locality capacity and needs assessment approaches.
TAC Membership
The TAC is composed of representatives from state agencies, coastal planning district commissions, regional commissions, academic advisors, and any other representatives as needed. TAC Membership Includes:
the Executive Directors of Coastal Planning District Commissions and Regional Commissions [A-NPDC, CraterPDC, GWRC, HRPDC, MPPDC, NNPDC, NVRC, PlanRVA];
the Special Assistant to the Governor for Coastal Adaptation and Protection (SACAP);
the Director of the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR);
the Director of the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM);
the Director of the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD);
the Executive Director of the Virginia Resources Authority (VRA);
the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ);
the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT);
the Director of the Virginia Transportation Research Council (VTRC);
the Commissioner of the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC);
the Director of the Institute for Coastal Adaptation and Resilience (ICAR);
the Associate Dean for Research and Advisory Services at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS);
the Director of the William and Mary School of Law Coastal Policy Center (W&M CPC);
the Director of the Virginia Tech Center for Coastal Studies (VT);
the Director of the Environmental Resilience Institute at the University of Virginia (UVA);
the Director of Virginia Sea Grant (Sea Grant);
the Director of Diversity, Opportunity, and Inclusion; and
the Chief Data Officer of the Commonwealth;
the Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District;
the Commander of the Navy Region Mid-Atlantic;
Representatives of the seven federally recognized Tribal Nations indigenous to the Commonwealth of Virginia [Chickahominy Indian Tribe, Chickahominy Tribe Eastern Division, Monacan Indian Nation, Nansemond Indian Nation, Pamunkey Indian Tribe, Rappahannock Indian Tribe, Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe].
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