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<strong>Coastal</strong> <strong>Erosion</strong> <strong>Responses</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Alaska</strong>: Workshop Proceedings 31<br />
In January 2005, Senator Stevens introduced S. 49 Floodplain and <strong>Erosion</strong><br />
Mitigation Task Force, which would establish a multi-agency Federal-State<br />
commission to evaluate and direct actions on <strong>the</strong> erosion problem.<br />
This <strong>for</strong>um and o<strong>the</strong>rs like it need to continue to define when effects of<br />
coastal erosion are a State issue:<br />
• When <strong>the</strong> erosion occurs during an event that elevates to a level of a State<br />
disaster.<br />
• When state-funded and maintained structures and infrastructure are<br />
impacted.<br />
• When <strong>the</strong> <strong>Alaska</strong> Legislature directs named Legislative <strong>Grant</strong>.<br />
<strong>Alaska</strong> needs to continue to limit additional or redevelopment in high<br />
hazard areas; and continue to develop community plans and funding mechanisms<br />
that<br />
• Provide <strong>for</strong> relocation of structures out of high hazard areas,<br />
• Restrict erosion control devices, such as seawalls, revetments, and<br />
groins.<br />
Instituting mechanisms to control development in coastal communities,<br />
to help prevent significant increases in buildings and infrastructure relocation,<br />
abandonment, and loss is a most difficult challenge. The engineering<br />
community has a significant role to assist with <strong>the</strong> challenges faced by our<br />
natural setting.<br />
References<br />
Evaluation of <strong>Erosion</strong> Hazards. The Heinz Center <strong>for</strong> Science, Economics and <strong>the</strong><br />
Environment (April 2000), prepared <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> Federal Emergency Management<br />
Agency Contract EMW-97-CO-0375.<br />
<strong>Alaska</strong> Native Villages: Most Are Affected by Flooding and <strong>Erosion</strong> but Few Qualify<br />
<strong>for</strong> Federal Assistance. Report to Congressional Committees by <strong>the</strong> U.S. General<br />
Accounting Office (December 2003) GAO-04-142.<br />
Managing <strong>Coastal</strong> <strong>Erosion</strong>. <strong>National</strong> Research Center, Committee on <strong>Coastal</strong> <strong>Erosion</strong><br />
Zone Management (1990), (FEMA Contract EMW-88-G-2786).<br />
Living with <strong>the</strong> Coast of <strong>Alaska</strong>. Owen Mason, William J. Neal, Orrin H. Pilkey, Jane<br />
Bullock, Ted Fathauer, Deborah Pilkey and Douglas Swanson (1997). FEMA<br />
funded publication.<br />
Understanding and Evaluating <strong>Erosion</strong> Problems. <strong>Alaska</strong> Floodplain Management<br />
Series. Woodward-Clyde Consultants (September 1982). Christy Miller, project<br />
manager <strong>for</strong> (<strong>the</strong>n) Department of Community and Regional Affairs, Division of<br />
Community Planning.