Kansas Hazard Mitigation Plan 2010 By the Kansas Hazard Mitigation Team led by the Adjutant General’s Department Kansas Division of Emergency Management 2800 Southwest Topeka Boulevard Topeka, Kansas 66611-1287 (785) 274-1406 This plan supersedes the Kansas Hazard Mitigation Plan dated 2007. Kansas Hazard Mitigation Plan Final November 2010 Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 1.2 Purpose 1.1 1.3 Adoption by the State 1.2 1.4 Compliance with Federal Laws and Regulations 1.3 1.5 Authorities 1.4 2 Planning Process 2.1 2.1 Documentation and the Planning Process 2.1 2.1.1 Evolution of the State Hazard Mitigation Plan 2.2 2.1.2 2010 Plan Update Process 2.4 2.2 Coordination among Agencies 2.16 2.3 Integration with Other Planning Efforts, Programs, and Initiatives 2.18 2.3.1 Integration with Local Plans 2.19 2.3.2 Challenges in Integration 2.19 3 Risk Assessment 3.2 3.1 Analysis of State Development Trend 3.3 3.1.1 Growth 3.3 3.1.2 Population 3.3 3.1.3 Social Vulnerability. 3.12 3.1.4 Land Use and Development Trends 3.15 3.1.5 Exposure of Built Environment 3.19 3.2 Hazard Identification. 3.23 3.2.1 State Plan Hazard Identification 3.23 3.2.2 Local Plans Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment 3.33 3.3 Hazard Profiles and Vulnerability 3.34 3.3.1 Agricultural Infestation 3.36 3.3.2 Dam and Levee Failure 3.42 3.3.3 Drought 3.54 3.3.4 Earthquake 3.74 3.3.5 Expansive Soils 3.80 3.3.6 Extreme Temperatures 3.83 3.3.7 Flood 3.93 3.3.8 Fog 3.111 3.3.9 Hailstorm 3.113 3.3.10 Hazardous Materials. 3.132 3.3.11 Land Subsidence 3.155 3.3.12 Landslide 3.159 3.3.13 Lightning 3.163 3.3.14 Major Disease Outbreak 3.168 3.3.15 Radiological 3.176 3.3.16 Soil Erosion and Dust 3.179 3.3.17 Terrorism, Agri-Terrorism, and Civil Disorder 3.183 3.3.18 Tornado 3.186 3.3.19 Utility/Infrastructure Failure 3.209 3.3.20 Wildfire 3.214 3.3.21 Windstorm 3.222 3.3.22 Winter Storm 3.235 3.3.23 Section Summary 3.252 Kansas Hazard Mitigation Plan Final i November 2010 3.4 State Facilities: Vulnerability and Potential Losses 3.253 3.5 RESOURCES 3.263 4 Mitigation Strategy. 4.2 4.1 Mitigation Goals and Objectives 4.2 4.1.1 2010 Updated Goals and Objectives 4.3 4.1.2 Process for Updating Goals and Objectives 4.4 4.2 State Capability Assessment 4.7 4.2.1 State Agencies and Mitigation-Related Programs 4.8 4.2.2 State Policies and Regulations 4.31 4.2.3 State Funding Capabilities 4.33 4.2.4 Changes in Capabilities since 2007 4.34 4.2.5 Assessment of Opportunities for Improvement 4.36 4.3 Local Capability Assessment 4.43 4.3.1 Local Policies, Programs, and Capabilities 4.43 4.4 Mitigation Actions 4.49 4.4.1 Identifying, Evaluating, and Prioritizing Mitigation Actions 4.49 4.4.2 2010 Updated Mitigation Actions 4.52 4.5 Funding Sources 4.58 4.5.1 Federal Funding Sources 4.58 4.5.2 State Funding Sources 4.66 4.5.3 Local Funding Sources 4.66 4.5.4 Private Funding Sources 4.66 4.5.5 Funding for Mitigation Actions 2004 to 2010 4.67 5 Coordination of Local Mitigation Plans 5.2 5.1 Local Funding and Technical Assistance 5.2 5.1.1 Background 5.2 5.1.2 Process to Provide Local Assistance 5.3 5.2 Local Plan Integration 5.5 5.2.1 Review and Approval of Local Plans 5.5 5.2.2 Linking Local Plans with the State Plan 5.6 5.2.3 Challenges in Plan Integration 5.7 5.3 Prioritizing Local Assistance 5.8 5.3.1 Criteria for Planning Grants 5.8 5.3.3 Successes and Challenges of Prioritization 5.10 6 Plan Maintenance Process 6.2 6.1 Monitoring, Evaluating, and Updating the Plan 6.2 6.1.1 Plan Monitoring and Evaluation 6.3 6.1.2 Plan Updating and Maintenance 6.5 6.1.3 Successes and Challenges to Monitoring, Evaluating, and Updating the Plan 6.8 6.2 Monitoring Progress of Mitigation Actions 6.9 6.2.1 Monitoring Action Implementation and Closeouts 6.9 6.2.2 Reviewing Progress on Achieving Goals 6.11 6.2.3 Successes and Challenges to Monitoring Progress of Mitigation Actions 6.12 Kansas Hazard Mitigation Plan Final ii November 2010 1 Introduction This chapter introduces the Kansas Hazard Mitigation Plan; its purpose and organization, provide evidence of plan adoption, and includes assurances regarding compliance with federal statutes and regulations as they pertain to federal mitigation grant funding and the state statutes that authorize mitigation programs and organizations in Kansas. Kansas has experienced a wide variety of disasters throughout the years. Many events have severely impacted the state’s people, property, economy, and environment. According to the Insurance Information Institute, Kansas ranked tenth in 2008 among the United States in terms of catastrophic losses ($638 million). Kansas is vulnerable to a wide variety of natural, technological, and societal hazards. Therefore, the government of Kansas has made a commitment to develop and implement a statewide mitigation program to eliminate or minimize its vulnerabilities to hazards. As defined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), mitigation is ―any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to life and property from a hazard event.‖ The statewide program is intended to encompass actions by the State of Kansas as well as its local governments. Only through a comprehensive, coordinated effort at all levels can the communities of Kansas become resilient to the effects of future disasters. To head up this effort, the Kansas Hazard Mitigation Team (KHMT), a cooperative group of representatives of state agencies and other interested parties involved in mitigation, was established in the 1990s to develop and coordinate implementation of a statewide hazard mitigation program. 1.1 Purpose The purpose of the Kansas Hazard Mitigation Plan is to guide hazard mitigation to better protect the people and property of the state. It demonstrates the state’s commitment to reducing risks from hazards and serves as a tool to help decision makers direct mitigation activities and resources. The planning process is continual. The KHMT reviews the plan annually and updates it every three years and or needed based on changes in priorities, disaster events, and funding availability. The next update of the plan is scheduled to begin in January 2013. This 2010 update to the Kansas Hazard Mitigation Plan details the hazards to which Kansas is most vulnerable and the state’s commitment to mitigating them. It was developed by the KHMT pursuant to the requirements of the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-390) and the Kansas Hazard Mitigation Plan Final 1.2 November 2010 implementing regulations set forth by the Interim Final Rule published in the Federal Register on January, 2008 (44 CFR §201.4). While the act emphasized the need for mitigation plans and more coordinated mitigation planning and implementation efforts, the regulations established the requirements that state hazard mitigation plans must meet in order for a state to be eligible for certain federal disaster assistance and hazard mitigation funding under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Act (P.L. 93-288). Specifically, the purpose of the Kansas Hazard Mitigation Plan and the associated planning process is to: Create a statewide vision for a disaster resilient future and define the state’s goals for hazard mitigation programming; Provide an effective mechanism to promote interagency coordination of Kansas’ state agency programs related to hazard mitigation; Ensure that all the hazards threatening Kansas are identified, evaluated, and addressed with a priority reflecting the risk they pose to the state; Comply with federal requirements as they pertain to mitigation in a coordinated and integrated manner; Provide an effective mechanism to plan, budget, monitor, and evaluate mitigation efforts; Educate state and local officials, as well as the public, regarding the hazards threatening Kansas and methods to mitigate them; and Establish and define programs and policies to improve mitigation planning and programming at the local level. 1.2 Organization This plan is organized around FEMA’s mitigation planning process and is divided into six chapters with supporting appendices: Chapter 1 Introduction includes the state’s adoption of the plan and assurances that the state will comply with all applicable federal statutes and regulations. Chapter 2 Planning Process explains the planning process, including how the plan was prepared, who was involved, and how it was integrated with other related planning efforts. Chapter 3 Risk Assessment features the risk assessment, which identifies the type and location of hazards that can affect Kansas, analyzes the state’s vulnerability to the hazards identified, and serves as the factual basis for the mitigation strategy. Chapter 4 Mitigation Strategy provides the state’s mitigation blueprint. Specifically, it includes goals and objectives, state and local capabilities, mitigation activities, and funding sources. Chapter 5 Coordination of Local Mitigation Planning describes the state’s role in funding, developing, coordinating, and approving local mitigation plans, and how the state prioritizes funding for local mitigation plans and projects. Chapter 6 Plan Maintenance Process presents the method the KHMT uses to monitor, evaluate, and update the plan.