2005 Annual Conference, February 23 & 24, 2005, Holiday Inn City Centre, Peoria, Illinois

PARTNERSHIPS – Working Together to Improve Floodplain and Stormwater Management. The conference will provide an excellent training forum for Professional Engineers to earn professional development hours (2 PDH for original presentations and one for each hour of contact) and Certified Floodplain Managers to earn CECs. Floodplain managers, engineers, and community officials attend. Informative product, service, agency, and organization exhibits will be on display Wednesday, February 23. More information at: http://www.illinoisfloods.org .

We are looking for speakers on floodplain and stormwater management topics such as:

Cooperating Technical Partners

FEMA’s National Service Provider

Map Modernization

What is a DFIRM?

Community adoption of digital floodplain maps

Digital mapping tools & products

Automated H&H and H&H software

Advanced Survey techniques/ LIDAR/GPS

Estimating BFEs in Zone A areas LOMC’s

Guided tours of FEMA’s web site

FIRMettes

Community Rating System

Floodplain Manager Certification

No Adverse Impact

Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000

Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004

Repetitive Losses

Flood warning and response

Flood hazard mitigation

Floodplain / Stormwater regulations-compelling incentives for compliance

Updating Floodplain and Stormwater Ordinances & implementation

Flood proofing/acquisition programs

HAZUS

Increased Cost of Compliance

Residential Substantial Damage Estimation

Pre-disaster mitigation funds

Levee certification

Legal Issues

Army Corps of Engineer’s Programs

Navigating Local, State, & Federal Permits

NPDES / non‑point source pollution

Stormwater/flood modeling

Stormwater utility fees

Integrating stormwater quantity & quality management

Innovative stormwater design

Intergovernmental Agreements

Stream maintenance & restoration

Watershed Stakeholder Groups

Integrating floodplain, stormwater, & watershed management &planning

Wetlands