Primary Department: Flood Control District
Primary Department Head/Elected Official: Tina Petersen, Ph.D., P.E., Executive Director
Secondary Department: N/A
Secondary Department Head/Elected Official: N/A
Regular or Supplemental RCA: Regular RCA
Type of Request: Grant - Amendment
Project ID (if applicable): Z100-00-00-PG010
Vendor/Entity Legal Name (if applicable): U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Federal Emergency Management Agency
MWBE Contracted Goal (if applicable): N/A
MWBE Current Participation (if applicable): N/A
Justification for 0% MWBE Participation Goal: N/A - Goal not applicable to request
Grant Indirect Costs Rate (if applicable): N/A
Justification for 0% Grant Indirect Costs Rate (if applicable): HCFCD, HCTRA, HHS
Request Summary (Agenda Caption):
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Request by the Flood Control District for approval to accept an amendment to an agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Federal Emergency Management Agency Cooperating Technical Partners Program to update the scope of work and agreement terms for the FY 2022 Urban Flood Risk Study Management Program (Project ID Z100-00-00-PG010, Countywide).
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Background and Discussion:
The Flood Control District has an ongoing Urban Flood Risk Study, which will implement recommendations developed in the ongoing Urban Flood Risk Pilot Study to evaluate and communicate the risk of urban flooding in Harris County neighborhoods. Urban flooding is often induced by short-duration, high-intensity rainfall events. These efforts seek to help define the risk of urban flooding as it exists today.
The Flood Control District proposed to complement the efforts of the Urban Flood Risk Study with an investigation into how climate change is likely to change the frequency and severity of these events over time, develop products which may be used with the models developed in the Urban Flood Risk Study to evaluate the impacts of those changes, and to conduct an investigation of special chall...
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