June 23, 2015
“Seeing is Believing? Property Prices in Inundated Areas”–a new brief from the Wharton Risk Center
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Conclusions of the brief from the Wharton Risk Center: “Our findings suggest that buyers of floodplain properties have a limited awareness about flood hazards, despite the federal requirement for flood insurance for floodplain properties with a federally-backed mortgage. Our results suggest that it is the result of being flooded, rather than knowing there is a
June 22, 2015
Tying Flood Insurance to Flood Risk for Low-lying Structures in the Floodplains
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Download “Tying Flood Insurance to Flood Risk for Low-lying Structures in Floodplains” here. Authors Committee on Risk-Based Methods for Insurance Premiums of Negatively Elevated Structures in the National Flood Insurance Program; Water Science and Technology Board; Division on Earth and Life Studies; Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences;
June 19, 2015
ASFPM has just added a seventh technical report
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#7 Lessons from a 500-year Record of Flood Elevations Author: James H. Eychaner Date: 2015; Pages: 25 For the Danube River at Passau, Germany, flood elevation records show that only half the actual intervals between 100-, 50-, and 5-year floods are within 50 percent of nominal. Climate change will add unquantified uncertainties to future flood
June 9, 2015
Insider’s Q & A with Randy Behm
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ASFPM organized a Question & Answer with Randall Behm, PE, CFM, and Chair of theNational Nonstructural Flood Proofing Committee with the United States Army Corps of Engineers for the Omaha District. Q: How about we start with your background. Where did you go to college, and what is your degree in? A: I graduated in May
June 9, 2015
FEMA Funding Opportunity: FY 2015 Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grants
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Funding Opportunity: FY 2015 Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grants FEMA has announced the FY 2015 Notice of Funding Opportunities for two of the Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) grant programs: Flood Mitigation Assistance and Pre-Disaster Mitigation. HMA grant programs provide states, tribes, territories, and local governments funding for eligible mitigation activities to strengthen our nation’s abilityto reduce
June 2, 2015
The Applicability of Executive Order (E.O.) 11988/13690 to FEMA Programs – Fact Sheet
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Guidelines for Implementing Executive Order 11988, Floodplain Management , and Executive Order 13690, Establishing a Federal Flood Risk Management Standard and a Process for Further Soliciting and Considering Stakeholder Input
May 29, 2015
FEMA Announces Funding Opportunity for Fiscal 2015 Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grants
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Intergovernmental Affairs Advisory May 29, 2015 FEMA Announces Funding Opportunity for Fiscal (FY) 2015 Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grants Dear Intergovernmental Colleagues: Today, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is announcing $180 million in funding available through two Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) grant programs: Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) and Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM). These two grant programs
May 27, 2015
Clean Water Rule protects streams and wetlands critical to public health, communities and economy
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Clean Water Rule Protects Streams and Wetlands Critical to Public Health, Communities, and Economy Release Date: 05/27/2015 Contact Information: Robert Daguillard, (202) 564-6618, (202) 360-0476, daguillard.robert@epa.gov Does not create any new permitting requirements and maintains all previous exemptions and exclusions Washington DC– In a historic step for the protection of clean water, the U.S. Environmental
May 8, 2015
Upper Mississippi River Economic Profile report should be completed by this summer
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Upper Mississippi River Economic Profile The economic benefits from the entire main-stem of the Mississippi River, from the headwaters in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, will be available when a current project beingled by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is completed this summer, according to America’s Watershed Initiative. The USFWS will release an
May 7, 2015
ASFPM submits second set of comments on FFRMS implementing guidelines
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ASFPM submitted its second set of comments on the draft implementation guidelines for the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard. You can read the full document, or skip to pg. 5 to read the comments submitted May 6. View document here. The consolidated comments document represents an earlier set of comments submitted April 7 that were