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HMA Sea Level Rise Memo and FAQs 12/13 (.pdf)

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“Holistic Coasts: Adaptive Management of Changing Hazards, Risks, and Ecosystems” is a bold vision – an integrated management approach and philosophy that breaks stove pipes, promotes individual and collective accountability and responsibility, and balances human use, environment, and economy into a resilient system. It is a compilation of 4th ASFPM Foundation Forum, conducted over two

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The Customer and Data Services team at Risk MAP is pleased to announce the launch of FIRMette – Desktop version 3.2.3, which is now available for download from the Map Service Center at https://msc.fema.gov. The FIRMette – Desktop application provides greatly expanded functionality over the FIRMette – Web tool. Key features include: • A customized

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Federal agencies had a busy week, releasing three, relevant reports. One was the much anticipated “Mitigation Assessment Team Report: Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey and New York.” This report reviews performance of buildings in Sandy. View the report and recommendations at https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/85922. USACE and FEMA released their Final Report of the Flood Protection Structure Accreditation

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WFYI Public Television just aired “When Every River Turned Against Us: Lessons from the Great 1913 Flood,” a 30-minute video that documents one of the most widespread disasters in American history, but has largely been forgotten. On Easter Sunday, March 23, 1913, a torrential, unrelenting downpour began and persisted for days across the nation’s midsection

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ASFPM encourages the Water Resources Development Act Conference Committee to support technical assistance to states and local governments working to reduce flood risk, and to establish a National Levee Safety Program. · Enhanced investment proposed by the Senate for important Corps of Engineers technical assistance programs – Flood Plain Management Services (FPMS), Planning Assistance to

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ASFMP’s Executive Director Chad Berginnis will testify before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee Nov. 19 to share the Association’s views on BW-12 implementation to date, and its recommendations. The hearing begins at 1:30 p.m. EDT and can be viewed at www.financialservices.house.gov by clicking the hearings tab. Read his written recommendations to the committee here

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Check the Committee page on www.thomas.gov to watch the hearing Hurricane Sandy Recovery House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Full Committee Hearing House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (Chairman Shuster, R-Pa.) will hold a hearing on Hurricane Sandy recovery. Date Thursday, Nov. 14, 10 a.m. Place 2167 Rayburn Bldg. Note Witnesses added. Witnesses Scheduled Peter M. Rogoff,

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The Biggert–Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act was passed last year with overwhelming bipartisan support from Congress and signed by President Barack Obama in July 2012. The bill included difficult but needed provisions to reduce longstanding premium subsidies and discounts — starting with those for vacation homes, business properties and repeatedly flooded properties — and move

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Floods are the nation’s most frequent and costly natural hazard, resulting in more Presidential Disaster Declarations than any other type of disaster, and destabilizing local and regional economies. The vast destruction on the Colorado Front Range and northeast Plains from the recent September flooding is devastating, but may be a harbinger of what we can

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