# Presentation: 285435

## N R C S

- Emergency Watershed Protection Program

##         EWP Program         Description

**EWP Program Overview**
**When EWP is activated**
** ****Presidential Declaration**
** ****State Conservationist Declaration**

**Notes:**
The EWP Program assists in relieving imminent hazards to life and property from floods and the products of erosion created by natural disasters that cause a sudden impairment of a watershed

Presidentially declared FEMA is the lead

## Authority

** ****Statute**
**Authorized in 1950**
**Drought added in 1978**
**Floodplain Easements ****	****	****	****	****	****added in 1996**

**Notes:**
EWP was authorized by Section 216 of the Flood control Act of 1950 (PL 81-516) by amending the Flood Control Act of 1944 (PL 78-534)

Drought was added under Section 403 of the Agriculture Credit Act of 1978 (PL 95-334)

Floodplain easements were added by Section 382 of the Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (PL 104-127)

## Eligible Impairments

**Floods**

## Eligible Impairments

** ****Fires**

## Eligible Impairments

**Hurricanes**
**Tornadoes**
**Typhoons**
** **

## Eligible Impairments 

**Other Impairments **

** ****Earthquakes**
** ****Volcanic Activity**
** ****Drought**
** ****Ice Storms**

## Eligible Sponsors

** ****Local Units or Subdivisions of State ****	****	****	****Government**
** ****State Government**
** ****Other Government Entities**
** ****Indian Tribes and Tribal Organizations**

## EWP Funding - Sponsor

** ****Ability to provide Local****	****	****	****	****	****Share of Construction****	****	****	****	****	****Costs **
** ****Responsible for Operation & Maintenance**
** ****Ability to Obtain Land Rights**
** ****Ability to Acquire Permits**

## EWP Funding - Federal

** ****Typically Funded via Supplemental ****	****	****             Appropriations**

**Notes:**
1991--20 million
1992--70
1993--61
1994--369
1995--0
1996--81
1997--229
1998--80
1999--95
2000--80
2001—110
2002-94

## Local Funding - 25%

** ****Cash**
** “****In-Kind” Goods or Services**
** ****Combination of Above**

## EWP Events Funded

## EWP FUNDING

## EWP FLOODPLAIN EASEMENT ACRES

## EWP FLOODPLAIN EASEMENT CONTRACTS

## Eligibility Criteria

** ****Reduce Threat to Life or Property****	**
** ****Economically Defensible**
** ****Alleviates Sudden Watershed Impairment**

## Eligible Measures

** ****Debris Removal**

## Eligible Measures

** ****Streambank Stabilization**

## Eligible Measures

** ****Critical Area Treatment**

## Eligible Measures

** ****Levee Repair**

## Eligible Measures

** ****PL 78-534 & 83-566 Structure Repair**

## Eligible Measures

**Ice Damage**

## Solutions

** ****Debris Removal**

## Solutions

- Solutions

## Solutions

- Solutions

## Solutions

** ****Floodplain Easement**

## IneligibleMeasures

** ****Restore****   Agricultural****   Productivity****   to Farmland**

## IneligibleMeasures

- IneligibleMeasures

## IneligibleMeasures

- IneligibleMeasures

## IneligibleMeasures

- IneligibleMeasures

## IneligibleMeasures

- IneligibleMeasures

## EWP Summary 

** ****Must be an imminent threat to life and property as a result of a natural disaster**
** ****Must alleviate a sudden impairment to the watershed**
** ****Must be economically defensible**
** ****Must have a sponsor, except floodplain easements**

## NRCS EWP PROGRAM

**Questions, please contact:**
**	****Allan Stahl**
**	****State Conservation Engineer**
**	****Natural Resources Conservation Service**
**	****339 Busch’s Frontage Rd.**
**	****Annapolis, MD 21401**
_**Allan.Stahl@md.usda.gov**_
**http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/ewp/index.html**