...urged to conduct... and ...surveys are requested...
Thems beggin' words. It would be nice if the state could compel the Federal to do it's bidding. But it can not. If you watch the meeting video, https://www.facebook.com/100060751568908...740793790/ (about 54 minutes in on the timeline) the USGS guy made it abundantly clear that their maps were never intended to, and do not, assess risk. The USGS maps define Hazzards. Risk is a different animal and The House shows it's obtuseness by conflating the two. In fact, Probability of risk is what insurers are really supposed to be focused on here according to USGS guy. The push-back from USGS at the meeting was real. The gist is that the insurance companies never had any real right or valid reason to base anything they do on these maps. So the real solution may be to force insurers to divorce their factoring from USGS products and rely on their own proprietary risk assessments. This opens avenues of competition (it's a Capitalism thing =) ). It will be a cold day deep beneath Kiluea before USGS complies with the concurrences, urges, and requests of our wheel spinning State House IMHO. I think they know that. But hey, why not make it look like they are really doing something?
Thems beggin' words. It would be nice if the state could compel the Federal to do it's bidding. But it can not. If you watch the meeting video, https://www.facebook.com/100060751568908...740793790/ (about 54 minutes in on the timeline) the USGS guy made it abundantly clear that their maps were never intended to, and do not, assess risk. The USGS maps define Hazzards. Risk is a different animal and The House shows it's obtuseness by conflating the two. In fact, Probability of risk is what insurers are really supposed to be focused on here according to USGS guy. The push-back from USGS at the meeting was real. The gist is that the insurance companies never had any real right or valid reason to base anything they do on these maps. So the real solution may be to force insurers to divorce their factoring from USGS products and rely on their own proprietary risk assessments. This opens avenues of competition (it's a Capitalism thing =) ). It will be a cold day deep beneath Kiluea before USGS complies with the concurrences, urges, and requests of our wheel spinning State House IMHO. I think they know that. But hey, why not make it look like they are really doing something?
I wish you all the best.