Two presenters from ASFPM will discuss the status of key legislative and policy work in the current 116th Congressional session (2019-2020), including:
* reauthorization of the NFIP
* appropriations for floodplain mapping
* FEMA's Risk Rating 2.0
* establishment of the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities ("BRIC") program
* potential for flood policy reforms in the upcoming 2020 Water Resources Development Act
David Conrad currently serves as a senior water resources policy advisor with the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) in Washington DC. His work has focused on a comprehensive reauthorization and reform of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and on policy reforms and updating of disaster assistance legislation responding to hurricanes, flooding events and storms, and how our development and urbanization patterns are making fundamental changes in watersheds and how they convey stormwater and runoff. For more than forty years, David has served as an advocate for policies and practices supporting wise water resources management, including more than two decades as a water resources specialist with the National Wildlife Federation. He has written extensively on flood and floodplain management policy, including serving as a principal author of the Federation’s landmark Higher Ground report in 1998, which brought national attention to problems with "repetitive flood losses," and highlighting and describing the first extensive use of voluntary buyouts as a flood risk mitigation technique.
Meg Galloway recently joined the Association of Floodplain Managers as a Senior Policy Advisor. Her entire career has been focused on water resource management and public safety issues, primarily in the areas of floodplains and dams. Prior to joining ASFPM, Ms. Galloway spent 29 years with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the last 10 years managing the floodplain management, floodplain mapping, and dam safety program.