Floodplain Regulations
The mission of the ASFPM Floodplain Regulations Committee is to support and improve sensible floodplain regulations on the local, state, and federal levels in order to reduce flood damages. The committee does this through advocating for higher floodplain standards, working to help better connect floodplain regulations with the other NFIP legs of flood mapping, flood insurance, and flood mitigation. Recognizing that flood risk is increasing due to risky development combined with climate change, committee members work with the ASFPM Climate Change Task Force to help bring climate change science and mitigation to ASFPM members.
The Committee also provides comments and positions on FEMA documents as they pertain to floodplain regulations, and has provided comments and suggestions through ASFPM with respect to FEMA’s Request for Information on the minimum federal floodplain regulations. Finally, our largest task is to update the committee’s higher floodplain standards document. We encourage all interested ASFPM members to contact the Co-Chairs to get more information and to become more involved.