Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan: 20. Plan Update Procedures

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Chapter 22:Plan Update Prncedurer ♦Minor Localized Flood Reduction Projects—These projects may include the installation or modification of culverts and floodgates,minor floodwall systems that generally protect an individual structure or facility,storm water management activities such as creating retention and detention basins,and the upgrade of culverts to bridges. ♦Structural Retrofitting of Existing Buildings—Modifications to the structural elements of a building to reduce or eliminate the risk of future damage and to protect inhabitants. ♦Non-structural Retrofitting of Existing Buildings and Facilities—Modifications to the non-structural elements of a building or facility to reduce or eliminate the risk of future damage and to protect inhabitants. ♦Safe Room Construction—Safe room construction projects are designed to provide immediate live safety protection for people in public and private structures from severe wind events,including hurricanes.This type of project includes retrofits of existing facilities or new safe room construction projects. ♦Infrastructure Retrofit—Measures to reduce risk to existing utility systems,roads,and bridges. ♦Soil Stabilization—Projects to reduce risk to structures or infrastructure from erosion and landslides,including installing geo-textiles,sod stabilization,installing vegetative buffer strips,preserving mature vegetation,decreasing slope angles,and stabilizing with rip rap and other means of slope anchoring. ♦Wildfire Mitigation—Projects to mitigate the risk to at-risk structures and associated loss of life from the threat of future wildfire through: •Defensible Space for Wildfire—Projects creating perimeters around homes,structures,and critical facilities through the removal or reduction of flammable vegetation. •Application of Ignition-resistant Construction—Projects that apply ignition-resistant techniques and/or non-combustible materials on new and existing homes,structures,and critical facilities. •Hazardous Fuels Reduction—Projects that remove vegetative fuels proximate to the at-risk structure that,if ignited,pose significant threat to human life and property,especially critical facilities.. ♦Post-Disaster Code Enforcement—Projects designed to support the post-disaster rebuilding effort by ensuring that sufficient expertise is on hand to ensure appropriate codes and standards,including NFIP local ordinance requirements,are utilized and enforced. ♦S%Initiative Projects—These HMGP projects provide an opportunity to fund mitigation actions that are consistent with the goals and objectives of the State and local Hazard Mitigation Plans Activities that might be funded under the 5%Initiative include: ♦The use,evaluation,and application of new,unproven mitigation techniques,technologies,methods,procedures,or products; ♦Equipment and systems for the purpose of warning citizens of impending hazards; ♦Purchase of generators or related equipment,such as generator hook-ups; ♦Hazard identification or mapping and related equipment for the implementation ofmitigation activities; ♦Geographic Information System(GIS)software,hardware,and data acquisition whose primary aim is mitigation; ♦Public awareness or education campaigns about mitigation;and ♦Evaluation of model building codes in support of future adoption and/or implementation. 20-7 Hawaii Cnurriy A9ulii-Hazard Mitigatinrr Plan