ASFPM Comments on Draft Interagency Concept for Community Resilience Indicators and National-Level Measures

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…

Elimination of PDM and Further Cuts to Flood Mapping in FEMA FY13 Budget The President’s proposed FY2013 budget eliminates the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) Grant Program and makes additional cuts to the flood mapping program from last year. ASFPM provided Outside Witness Testimony to the Subcommittee on Homeland Security, House Committee…

U.S. Department of Homeland Security 500 C Street, SW Washington, DC 20472 W-14017 April 28, 2014 MEMORANDUM FOR: Write Your Own Company Principal Coordinators, WYO Vendors, NFIP Direct Servicing Agent, and Independent Adjusting Firms FROM: David L. Miller, Associate Administrator, Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration SUBJECT: Further Extension the Time to File a Standard Flood…

WASHINGTON – The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) today convened the first Principals meeting of the National Ocean Council in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. The meeting, attended by 25 Cabinet Secretaries and Senior Officials from across the Federal Government, focused on…