The Honorable Harry Reid The Honorable Mitch McConnell Majority Leader Minority Leader U.S. Senate U.S. Senate Washington DC, 20510 Washington, DC 20510 Dear Majority Leader Reid and Minority Leader McConnell: The Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) represents 14,000 professional floodplain managers throughout the nation. We urge the Senate to quickly consider reauthorization and reform…
The March 16th broadcast of NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams did a Fleecing of America report on “How some Americans are being FORCED to buy flood insurance”. This report expressed some concerns with FEMA and the NFIP for flood maps that could end up requiring flood insurance on some new properties. FEMA is currently…
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Public Notice of the FEMA Intended Procurement for NFIP With the impacts of several large flood disasters over the past years, the National Flood Insurance Program experienced situations where the cost of policy claims far exceeded the amount of premiums and accumulated surplus. This resulted in the NFIP incurring a debt to the U.S. Treasury…