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Alaska’s Twenty Fifth Legislature established the
Alaska Climate Change Impact Mitigation Program (ACCIMP)
with funding to address the immediate planning needs
of communities imminently threatened by climate change-related
impacts such as erosion, flooding, storm surge, and thawing
permafrost. The
ACCIMP
is
being administered by the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community,
and Economic Development, Division of Community & Regional Affairs
(DCRA).
The
ACCIMP
is being delivered through grants to meet specific
objectives. The program initially directs the majority of grant
funds at specific communities identified as imminently threatened by
the Governor’s Subcabinet on Climate Change, Immediate Action
Workgroup (IAW). These communities are Shishmaref, Kivalina, Newtok,
Koyukuk, Unalakleet and Shaktoolik. |
The ACCIMP will provide non-competitive funding to these communities for Community Planning Grants to address the recommendations for immediate actions made by the IAW
in its Recommendations Report to the Governor’s Subcabinet on Climate
Change, April 17, 2008. (See pages 3-8 and 27-45 of the report, available online at http://www.climatechange.alaska.gov/
docs/iaw_rpt_17apr08.pdf.)
To
receive a community planning grant, the six communities must first
have undergone a hazard impact
assessment to identify the imminent threats to the community and provide
recommendations for further action by the community. Funding
for a hazard impact assessment may also be obtained through the
ACCIMP.
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The balance of funds will be offered as
competitive
mini-grants to
eligible communities for hazard impact assessments to
identify climate change-related natural hazards such as erosion,
flooding, storm surge, thawing permafrost, and wildfires, and to
provide recommendations for further action by the community.
Community eligibility for this funding will be based on demonstration
of need due to one or more of the following impacts:
(1) risk to life or safety during storm
or flood events;
(2) loss of critical infrastructure;
(3) threats to public health;
(4) loss of 10 percent or more of
residential dwellings.
Development of community planning and/or hazard impact assessment grants for the six communities named above is currently underway.
 MINI-GRANT SOLICITATION
Solicitation for the competitive mini-grant program opened January 12, 2009 and ends Monday, February 15, 2009 at 4:30 p.m.
Download
a copy of the regulations for the ACCIMP
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Flood waters in the village
of Newtok.
Photo
courtesy Stanley Tom |
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Coastal storm in
Shishmaref. Photo
courtesy Tony A.
Weyiouanna, Sr. |
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In Shaktoolik, the natural
barrier between the homes and the ocean has diminished from the
storms of
2003, 2004 and 2005 putting the debris literally feet away
from the structures. |
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| For more information
on the Alaska Climate Change Impact Mitigation Program, please
contact: |
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Sally Russell Cox, Planner III
Division of Community & Regional Affairs
907 269-4588
Sally.Cox@alaska.gov |
OR |
Erik O’Brien, Planner II
Division of Community & Regional Affairs
907 269-4132
Erik.Obrien@alaska.gov |
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