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○ Develop an approach for sharing government wide resources and information to
support community-driven relocation effectively. (Key Agencies: CEQ, FEMA, DOI, HUD,
DOT, and USDA; Support: Interagency Community-Driven Relocation Subcommittee;
Timeframe: Within 12 months)
○ Align policies across agencies to support socially-cohesive, community-driven
relocation, by developing programs that provide incentives and support to
communities interested in relocation due to the risks of flood inundation. (Key
Agencies: NOAA, EPA, USACE, HUD, DOT, FEMA; Timeframe: 2 years to initiate)
● Expand the range of coastal resilience and restoration project financing mechanisms
available to frontline communities
○ Expand the range of coastal resilience project financing mechanisms available to
frontline communities in partnership with the private sector, community-based
organizations, philanthropic, and faith-based organizations. (Key Agencies: NOAA, EPA,
FEMA, DOI; Timeframe: Mid-Term (6 months-2 years) to initiate)
○ Expand Federal grant programs to help Tribal Nations, State, Territorial, and local
governments, Indigenous Peoples, and NGOs optimize natural resource benefits by
implementing nature-based infrastructure for resilience and adaptation and
incorporate their perspectives and experiences into evaluation criteria. (Key Agencies:
NOAA, EPA; Support: NSF, DOI; Timeframe: Immediate (0-6 months) to initiate)
○ Create and enhance tools to support coastal restoration finance, such as the EPA
Environmental Finance Dashboard. (Key agencies: EPA, NOAA, USACE, DOI/USGS;
Timeframe: Mid-term (6 months - 2 years) to complete)
● Support transformational resilience investments in coastal habitat restoration,
conservation and in coastal community resilience by using BIL and IRA funds to carry out
projects that benefit coastal communities, including those that have been historically
marginalized, underserved, or underrepresented. Support to projects and communities should
include technical assistance for making science-informed resilience investments, building
enduring capacity, and engaging on the ground expertise to equitably reduce risk to coastal
communities, economies, and ecosystems. (Key Agency: NOAA; Timeline: Ongoing)
● Expand coastal mapping, monitoring, observational systems, research, and modeling to
inform science-based decision-making capabilities and advance use of nature-based
solutions
○ Connect and augment existing Federal monitoring capacities, observational networks,
modeling, predictions, projections, products, and services into an interoperable
framework to inform decision-making, such as management plans, vulnerability
assessments, and resilience toolkits; enhance tools to evaluate the effectiveness and
opportunities for use of nature-based solutions (Key Agencies: NOAA, DOI, NASA,
DOI/USGS, USACE, USDA; Timeframe: Immediate (0-6 months) to initiate)
○ Ensure that coastal observations, models, information products, and related services
are co-designed across Federal agencies and with local governments, management
agencies, and other stakeholders to ensure they are responsive to timing, information,
and formats that are useful for decision-making. (Key Agency: NOAA; Support:
DOI/USGS, NASA; DOI/BOEM; Timeframe: Immediate and ongoing)