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Congresswoman Elaine Luria Cosponsors Bipartisan Flood Resiliency and Taxpayer Savings Act

October 11, 2020 by Wayne Creed 2 Comments

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Elaine Luria announced her support for the Flood Resiliency and Taxpayer Savings Act (H.R. 8462). This bipartisan bill will ensure that federal agencies invest in coastal resiliency measures when working in Hampton Roads and Coastal Virginia.

“By requiring federal agencies to plan for future flood risks, we can strengthen coastal resiliency and protect our community from recurrent flooding,” said Congresswoman Elaine Luria. “In Coastal Virginia, climate change is a problem we face every day that threatens our environment, infrastructure, and national security. This bill is an important step in the right direction for the federal government to take meaningful action to protect coastal communities.”

Specifically, the bill:

Directs federal agencies to consider and plan for future flood risk as they evaluate spending federal dollars, including the entire lifespan of a project.
Requires agency leaders, for projects that are currently or in the future will be in flood-prone areas, to use the best available data about current and future flood risk including FEMA maps, state and local data, hydrologic studies, and other information.


In the absence of concrete data, ensures agencies incorporate appropriate safeguards to shield communities (and federal investment) from future damage and loss—such as structure elevation, hardening, nature-based systems, or other mitigation strategies.
In Congress, Congresswoman Luria worked with colleagues from both parties to protect Coastal Virginian communities from rising sea levels and recurrent flooding. Last December, the Coastal and Great Lakes Communities Enhancement Act passed the House with Congresswoman Luria’s amendment to ensure that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) considers living shoreline projects that support resiliency at military installations. These projects restore and stabilize shorelines, including marshes, wetlands, and other parts of the shoreline ecosystem by using materials such as plants and oyster shells.

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  1. Maria Marzoa says

    October 19, 2020 at 4:35 am

    Please explain the “Taxpayer Savings Act “

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  2. MJM says

    October 20, 2020 at 9:09 pm

    I am announcing today the bipartisan commission that will investigate why Elaine Luria thinks she is telling us something helpful or positive here. She’s insulting us by displaying such a press release. Did you read what she said ? “Directs agencies to consider and plan future flood risks.” Tells agency leaders to “use the best available data”. From there, her support for this bill, and the wording for it JUST GETS DUMBER !!!
    If these agencies are not already doing just exactly that, then just WHAT THE HECK ARE THEY DOING !! ??? Why would we even have such an agency if that is not what they are already doing ?
    So Ms. Luria is stating that she is supporting doing the SOS and is wasting that seat representing us by bloviating like this over and over. Let’s get somebody in there who will DO SOMETHING !!!
    Bipartisan my butt. She claims to work together. She works at nothing. Wastes her time and says yes and no to what Pelosi says.
    She was breathing too much strontium 90 when she was on her nuclear Navy assignment. Or was that plutonium ?

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