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Reinhardt said Phase 1 involved an assessment and inventory of environmental hazards aboard the ship and some minor emergency repairs. Phase 2, which the agency said will begin this month, is a cleanup of hazardous materials and remediation of items that cannot be removed. He said the work is intended to reduce risks to tourism, the economy and downstream waterways because leaked oil and other contaminants can move with tides and travel upstream into rivers.

Committee members asked whether federal partners would be involved; Reinhardt said the federal government had previously declined cleanup responsibility and that the state is proceeding with remediation using the ARPA funding. SCORE said the approach is to first address immediate hazards and then proceed to broader remediation work.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Senate Legislative Oversight Committee -- Legislative Oversight Subcommittee on SCOR 02/12/2025","oneSentenceSummary","SCORE said it will start a two-phase remediation of hazardous materials on the USS Yorktown using $30 million in ARPA funds: Phase 1 (assessment/inventory) is complete and Phase 2 (cleanup/remediation) will begin this month, the agency said.","taxTitle","Legislative Oversight, Standing, Senate, Committees, Legislative, South Carolina","taxId",17643,"location","South Carolina","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6310847,"SCORE outlines mitigation portfolio: CDBG‑MIT funds, stormwater projects and voluntary buyouts",227,1809000,2036000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2398169-a8061ee81448761796f93635f2d8f368&start=1809&end=2036","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2398169-a8061ee81448761796f93635f2d8f368/thumbnail_1809000.jpg","/articles/6310847/South-Carolina/SCORE-outlines-mitigation-portfolio-CDBGMIT-funds-stormwater-projects-and-voluntary-buyouts","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6310847-498db4fa4d5f9ca8257587a3a75994fe/orig.mp4?Expires=1771173086&Signature=Dfw0fMedynuLMu35s9Y8m9eiFAYE9XhmWHlx0FFG1p8pXfFJ~UNvt0ZRSgZ4Q0qmfmVqfZAhUfNxq-p0pjgDulRxDfc9-VR3uH3LnDSGFfLm9YId6~EFRL261v3l6QMfMIIGnlby0e1PYWAJVgbuN6SzdnOB6AEMgK1358oo8TR-lMxOyOqVaHBwAzEaHBwjrWuGfGRvYjHSHqExpPMAxv8qLtz2sT-LK77~HtS0pIgiAN-q2rRyuG57lLfID-OsK-OUZ9tQJUpyGIYX6-t8z-FbmO-66P3p8oWzS3Br-kWMYegJdMgztVQPABdrLCv~61w5vVhkiOqHLn7EmmlL3g__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Alex Butler and Rand Reinhardt briefed senators on SCORE’s mitigation work, funded through HUD CDBG‑MIT, state ARPA allocations and other grants. Reinhardt said HUD allocated $162,000,000 in CDBG‑MIT funds for mitigation projects in repeatedly impacted watersheds; the program is a multi-year grant scheduled to run 12 years from its start date and is focused on flood reduction activities.

Reinhardt explained CDBG‑MIT program areas: infrastructure projects to prevent flooding, plans and studies, voluntary buyouts of repeatedly flooded homes, and matching funds to help communities compete for federal flood-reduction grants. He said the program is targeted to 17 counties in the PED (Santee) and PD watersheds that were repeatedly hit in 2015–2018 and that HUD has identified a subset of \"most impacted and distressed\" counties for concentrated spending.

Reinhardt highlighted a handful of mitigation projects: the Earhart Tunnel in Charleston’s Medical District, designed to store and pump water (the shaft stores water and pumps will handle up to 360,000 gallons per minute), and the Mingo Pond project on Highway 17 in Georgetown County, which used SCORE mitigation dollars plus county funds to lower standing water on a primary evacuation route. He also described the voluntary buyout program in Horry County’s Rosewood neighborhood: SCORE funded roughly $3.8 million toward buyouts; Horry County applied to buy out 61 homes and SCORE had completed 58 buyouts and was finishing demolitions at the time of the presentation.

Senators asked whether buyouts and mitigation dollars must benefit low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Reinhardt said CDBG‑MIT requires at least 50% of funds be used to benefit LMI populations; he said SCORE expects to use \"close to 60%\" toward LMI beneficiaries once projects are complete. He also noted individual buyout caps (he cited a top cap around $350,000 per house) and said SCORE uses appraisals based on pre-disaster value to determine buyout offers.

Butler added that SCORE is executing an ARPA stormwater infrastructure program funded with $65,000,000 of the legislature’s $100,000,000 ARPA appropriation to the office; SCORE currently has 17 ARPA stormwater projects and a total of 44 mitigation projects in various stages across the state. Reinhardt and Butler said infrastructure projects can take longer to complete and that the CDBG‑MIT program has significant time to finish projects (grant end date described in the presentation).","SCORE described its mitigation portfolio to the committee, including a $162 million HUD CDBG‑MIT allocation, ARPA-funded stormwater projects and voluntary buyouts of repeatedly flooded homes such as the Rosewood neighborhood buyouts in Horry County.",{"_33":89,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":90,"_41":91,"_43":92,"_45":93,"_47":94,"_49":95,"_51":96,"_53":97,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":98,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":99,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6310852,"SCORE details disaster-recovery record, HUD and FEMA allocations and Helene timeline",1203,561000,1764000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2398169-a8061ee81448761796f93635f2d8f368&start=561&end=1764","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2398169-a8061ee81448761796f93635f2d8f368/thumbnail_561000.jpg","/articles/6310852/South-Carolina/SCORE-details-disaster-recovery-record-HUD-and-FEMA-allocations-and-Helene-timeline","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6310852-05866f3471104d730056061fdfe68f16/orig.mp4?Expires=1771173086&Signature=d9A7DTWhLpEofrBq4lqGQruF1Q4zV6CBjoTTBK646Pv9~3cnyunoXSD6YtdXr5GCVo1-GXbE7lGI5IXlD30oBft4tsjAb56COCAZNAWbaqtbYi0q4KipqOAlXsMt3CMde421Y16BpUO1U3aZtdp537jzDJZpWd9bkI8CaCoYbtwZa5v3sXc7--oSWZliM2XLPe7GMwwNAWuLGGOU4KexbshI9In9a01B5xYhVXi0269m7tjwDg7y1ywWksM0VEnXACQe0WsXfbUHfX-Vs02MMSTC14NqJXVWgvU5FJ2ZxmNg9esR-zMM3ZJH4VQe9oSoKhurj-yFj9UYR8wjxPku8A__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Rand Reinhardt, operations director at the South Carolina Office of Resilience (SCORE), briefed the Legislative Oversight Committee on SCORE’s disaster-recovery operations and federal funding history. Reinhardt said SCORE has used HUD Community Development Block Grant — Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding and FEMA disaster case management (DCMP) grants to repair, replace or rebuild nearly 3,459 homes across three major disasters since 2015.

Reinhardt gave a year-by-year breakdown: $126,000,000 drawn down for the 2015 flooding (Hurricane Joaquin), $95,000,000 for Hurricane Matthew in 2016, and about $72,000,000 for Hurricane Florence in 2018. He said the agency also drew down roughly $8,300,000 in FEMA disaster case management funding for earlier grants and recently received a $22,000,000 FEMA DCMP award for Hurricane Helene.

On the Helene response, Reinhardt said HUD published a federal register notice on Jan. 16 allocating $150,000,000 in CDBG-DR to South Carolina. SCORE is preparing an unmet-needs assessment and must complete an action plan and public comment process under HUD’s timeline. Reinhardt summarized the HUD schedule as: 60 days to complete an action plan and begin public outreach, a 30-day public comment period, HUD review (up to 45 days), and then execution of a grant agreement, with federal-funded construction anticipated to start after that administrative period (agency estimate: July).

Reinhardt described SCORE’s disaster case management model as a core program that helps low- to moderate-income residents navigate the recovery process. \"Our case managers are linking our citizens with the resources that are out there,\" Reinhardt said, and he noted that case management lowers temporary housing costs by helping residents rapidly identify short-term housing options while repairs proceed.

To bridge the gap while federal funds are finalized, Reinhardt said SCORE will use state reserve funds to run a rapid rebuild program that targets destroyed homes and will enlist volunteer agencies such as Habitat for Humanity and the Red Cross for damaged-home repairs. He said SCORE expects a six-year federal spending window for the Helene CDBG-DR allocation beginning on Jan. 21, 2025.

Committee members asked about program completion for earlier grants; Reinhardt said most earlier grants are closed out and that roughly 55 homes remained under warranty from the 2018 program, with the one-year warranty period ending in November 2025.

Reinhardt also noted that HUD and FEMA grant rules require that a minimum percentage of CDBG-DR funds be used for low- to moderate-income residents and that a portion of funds must be dedicated to mitigation.","SCORE told lawmakers it has used HUD CDBG-DR and FEMA disaster case management funding to repair or replace roughly 3,459 homes after 2015–2018 disasters, described current allocations for Hurricane Helene and outlined a HUD action-plan timeline tied to a $150 million CDBG-DR federal allocation.",{"_33":101,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":102,"_41":103,"_43":104,"_45":105,"_47":106,"_49":107,"_51":108,"_53":109,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":110,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":111,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6310857,"South Carolina Office of Resilience presents statewide plan, staffing and audits to oversight committee",2590,74000,2664000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2398169-a8061ee81448761796f93635f2d8f368&start=74&end=2664","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2398169-a8061ee81448761796f93635f2d8f368/thumbnail_74000.jpg","/articles/6310857/South-Carolina/South-Carolina-Office-of-Resilience-presents-statewide-plan-staffing-and-audits-to-oversight-committee","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6310857-1a0bb6e236d9879b1c7d378f2b990287/orig.mp4?Expires=1771173086&Signature=msoEN7UMAhlgkaEVXttcWvj2VKu5BaHRj~~WbLkZHi9nzpAjx3M4oqPSVqDzAMYzTVX~WmlE4L9VWg44rTzfZITpV~KFRmGqH8p41acicwtkx5COtwkfYMcx25EtxlBMb~RUKlCHi~zoXm3pLhyvtjoE36Ws6xZrH8UyPODU6QtfwEMeYZgoz02i6K--cFHjfFRoEhVnY7WuyytU7ViOU2urE3KcqkHzI~YCszW5DouHv4Y0zKIXhC25KIy3Lo7tRkktARAF3IiBcgJOrd9VjZN~iTadocRNEnqDD7mWwvjAj30lokclgSClfJX2Z4om1K4znZOizTrTw2A1lA0xJw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Ben Duncan, director of the South Carolina Office of Resilience, told the Legislative Oversight Committee that SCORE’s mission is to lessen the impact of disasters on South Carolinians by planning and coordinating statewide resilience, long-term recovery and hazard mitigation. He said the agency released the state’s first statewide strategic resilience and risk reduction plan in June 2023 and is now focused on implementation.

The plan sets watershed-based priorities and four lines of effort: watershed-based planning and coordination, improved data collection and coordination, pursuing all available funding sources, and coordinating land conservation to reduce flood risk. Alex Butler, SCORE’s resilience director, described how the agency has begun hiring watershed coordinators and is updating key datasets such as land-cover mapping and rainfall recurrence intervals to improve planning.

Butler said the state is already using outdated rainfall-frequency curves (Atlas 14) in many design decisions and that updated data show events formerly considered 100-year storms are occurring more frequently. \"When we put in something designed for a 25-year storm, we're already missing the mark because we're using outdated numbers,\" Butler said.

SCORE described several data and partnership initiatives: a refined land-cover dataset (anticipated by year-end), a resilience indicator developed with the University of South Carolina to measure community capacity to respond, and regional coordination with neighboring states for shared basins such as the Catawba and Saluda. Butler said the office is also coordinating with federal and state agencies, universities and local governments to overlay flood risk with critical infrastructure such as roadways and solid-waste facilities.

On staffing and finances, Duncan said SCORE employs about 68 full-time staff and maintains roughly 50 temporary grant-funded staff for disaster response. He told the committee the agency has routed more than $1.2 billion through its programs since 2015 and that recent audits by the State Auditor’s Office and HUD’s Office of Inspector General produced no findings. \"For the audits that we've had this year, there are no findings, sir,\" Duncan said.

Butler and Duncan emphasized implementation over planning. Butler said SCORE is filling watershed coordinator roles, beginning pilot watershed planning in the Sockahatchee Basin, and coordinating large federal grants and philanthropic awards—including a regional natural-lands grant and EPA funding for solar deployment targeted at low- and moderate-income communities.

The presentation drew questions from multiple senators about the basis for the office’s risk assessments and how resilience indicators reflect local capacity. Several lawmakers sought clarification on county- and neighborhood-level impacts that will inform future SCORE projects. The committee adjourned to a finance subcommittee meeting after the presentation.","The South Carolina Office of Resilience (SCORE) described its statewide strategic resilience and risk reduction plan, staffing levels, data initiatives and recent audits to the Legislative Oversight Committee, saying the agency is moving from planning into implementation across watershed-based lines of effort.","actionData","errors"]

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