ASFPM has sent a letter to members of the Senate Appropriations Committee strongly urging funding of FEMA’s flood risk map program at a minimum of $263 million for FY21.
In its response, ASFPM identified the major issues that we feel need to be addressed in order to strengthen the CRS program and offered recommendations for each.
ASFPM urges FEMA to strengthen the NFIP with better mapping, regulation, mitigation, and insurance provisions to protect communities from increasing flood risk associated with climate change.
ASFPM was among the more than 30 organizations that signed onto a letter to the Department of the Interior urging the reinstatement the Coastal Barrier Resources Act’s (CBRA) protections against federally-funded sand mining in the areas protected by the Coastal Barrier Resources System (CBRS).
Testimony centered on the importance of prioritizing mitigating at-risk properties, increasing flood-risk awareness, and ensuring full flood-risk disclosure for all property transactions.
