The testimony outlined a number of key recommendations to better protect property owners and communities from flood risk, including considerations for those that are rural, lower-income, or otherwise vulnerable.
ASFPM priorities address flood risk mapping, flood insurance, floodplain management, and flood mitigation, and the changes necessary to strengthen the NFIP.
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.
In a Senate Committee hearing, Berginnis provided testimony on the importance of NFIP to helping families and communities become more resilient to flooding and offered recommendations on how it can be strengthened to better address current and future flood risk and ensure greater equity.
