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But even with the IIJA, the funds are limited, so the region and the nation need ways to prioritize investments informed by sound science and engineering. The workshop, titled Investing in Resilient Infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico, demonstrated and refined a process to help inform recommendations for prioritizing infrastructure investments across sectors and anchored in the Gulf region energy industry.
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WORKSHOP OVERVIEW Approximately 50 infrastructure, oil and gas, petrochemical, emergency management, and Gulf region experts from federal, state, and local governments, industry, non-governmental organizations, and academia participated in this 3-day workshop. Half of the participants joined Day 1 on November 15 for a set of in-person exercises focused on a hurricane scenario; half of the participants joined Day 2 on November 16 for a set of in-person exercises focused on a protracted oil spill scenario.
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Jason Tama, White House National Security Council Director for Resilience and Response, emphasized what an opportune time it was for this workshop in light of the signing of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law. He hoped conference participants would identify key principles to prioritize investment in infrastructure resilience and then share those principles with decision makers.
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Necessity of Community Engagement Emphasizing Local Leadership Participants said that local leadership is essential for projects to be effective, ensuring that local needs are understood, communicated, and considered; buy-in of new projects is achieved; and project outcomes benefit all relevant stakeholders. This includes increasing local leadership in disaster response decision-making, which is critical to increasing resilience.
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It is critical to continuously maintain response capability, but increasing attention will have to be paid to prevention of adverse impacts from infrastructure failures happening to begin with. Examples of preventive measures included undergrounding power lines, phasing out tall communications towers, and increasing robustness and resilience of petroleum storage tanks.
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Decision makers also need more long-term studies regarding the specific impacts that can be expected from threats, hazards, changing use patterns, complex disasters, and climate change. Baseline data needs to include the specific locations of existing infrastructure systems, health and economic information, and the natural environment.
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In the closing session, participants expressed how valuable they found the workshop, bringing together such a diverse group to share and learn from each other, and they made suggestions for improvements and next steps. On that last day of the workshop, NAS President Marcia McNutt said that the National Academies plan for the workshop to be just the first step in a big, bold, and exciting effort to help the United States make good use of limited funds to meet future infrastructure needs.
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