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Alaska Climate Change Impact Mitigation Program

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The Alaska Climate Change Impact Mitigation Program (ACCIMP) was established to provide technical assistance and funding to communities imminently threatened by climate-related natural hazards such as erosion, flooding, storm surge, and thawing permafrost.  The intent of the program was to help impacted communities develop a planned approach to shoreline protection, building relocation and/or eventual relocation of the village.

The ACCIMP sought to create safe, healthy and sustainable communities by increasing community resilience to climate-related natural hazards.

The ACCIMP was implemented through a two-step process

  1. HAZARD IMPACT ASSESSMENTS were conducted to identify and define the hazard impacts in the community, to assess how those hazards impact the community, and to develop recommendations for how the community might best mitigate those hazard impacts; and
  2. COMMUNITY PLANNING GRANTS allowed communities to carry out one or more or the recommendations from the Hazard Impact Assessment. Results of community planning efforts provided a common blueprint for investment of federal assistance and state and local resources as well.
ACCIMP Program Documents and Links Community Climate Change Resources DCRA's Community Resilience Programs

For more information contact:

Sally Russell Cox

Local Government Specialist 5 / State and Federal Programs
Division of Community and Regional Affairs
Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
550 West 7th Avenue, Suite 1650, Anchorage, AK 99501-3569
Phone (907) 269-4588 Fax (907)269-4539
Email: sally.cox@alaska.gov

Revised 8/1/2024