April 25, 2017
Funding for National Flood Mapping Program Threatened
By News Editor
When the Trump Administration announced its “skinny” budget March 16, flood risk professionals learned that all funding for flood mapping and a substantial amount of pre-disaster mitigation grant funding were being cut. ASFPM did urge our membership to contact their members of Congress and explain why they needed to protect these programs. A smaller group
March 21, 2017
Sample template for emailing or faxing your Congress member to save flood mapping program
By News Editor
Below is a template email/fax you can use, and feel free to modify as you see fit (especiallythose elements in blue font in brackets). In the House, you need to make this request by April 1. While the Senate does not yet have a deadline, we still urge you to let them know where you
March 17, 2017
ASFPM Opposes President’s FY18 Federal Budget
By News Editor
President Trump just released his proposed FY18 federal budget and ASFPM opposes it. The budget fails to make America safer from natural disasters, especially floods, the leading cause of disasters in this nation. The budget cuts myriad federal programs in FEMA, HUD, Corps of Engineers, NOAA, EPA and USDA that communities and states use to
March 16, 2017
Berginnis Testifies before Subcommittee of the House Financial Services
By News Editor
The Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance of the House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing today (March 16) on reauthorization of the NFIP called “Flood Insurance Reform: A Community Perspective.” ASFPM Executive Director Chad Berginnis will be testifying, along with Melissa H. Luckman, Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Disaster Relief
March 3, 2017
Larson Testifies at Senate Committee Hearing on Flood Control Infrastructure
By News Editor
ASFPM Policy Advisor Larry Larson testified March 1 on flood control infrastructure before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The hearing was convened after the near auxiliary spillway failure at Oroville Dam in California. A good majority of Larson’s testimony focused on the fact that the public is not aware of “residual risk” when
November 1, 2016
HUD’s proposed FFRMS rule will protect humans and taxpayer dollars
By Larry Larson, P.E., CFM
I recently read a column by Ed Brady, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders, where he stated that HUD’s proposed rule to implement the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard would impose new rules on taxpayer-funded housing in areas “…where the odds of flooding are extremely remote.” Extremely remote eh? Many who recently suffered
June 30, 2016
ASFPM Chair Ceil Strauss testified before Senate Committee June 30, 2016
By News Editor
At 10 a.m. (EDT), ASFPM Chair Ceil Strauss testified on the NFIP at a hearing before the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. The hearing, titled “No More Hikes: Small Business Survival Amidst Unaffordable Flood Insurance Rate Increases,” gives ASFPM the opportunity to comment on the private flood insurance bill pending before the Senate
April 14, 2015
ASFPM submits comments on potential revisions to 33 CFR Part 203 (PL 84-99)
By News Editor
ASFPM Comments on Potential Revisions to 33 CFR Part 203 (PL 84-99)CFR Document COE-2015-0004 General comments- Federal taxpayer costs for disasters are rising dramatically due to increased human development in flood hazard areas and increasing storm intensity and sea level rise. Taxpayer costs for flood disasters have risen to well over $10 billion/year, with two
April 10, 2014
Call for National Flood Risk Management Strategy
By News Editor
Eight years ago in the wake of hurricane Katrina the American Society of Civil Engineers issued a call to action to the challenge of increasing flood losses. Over the past two years the ASCE Task Committee, which includes Dave Fowler, ASFPM’s Watershed POD facilitator, examined our national response to this call for action. This report
January 8, 2010
Larson Appointed to FEMA’s National Advisory Committee
By News Editor
The Association of State Floodplain Manager’s Executive Director, Larry A. Larson, has been appointed to FEMA’s National Advisory Council and will be sworn it at its February meeting. Larson will join 34 other members who are appointed by the FEMA Administrator based on their expertise. They will serve three-year terms. The Council advises FEMA on