108 FEMA delimits the scope of work as follows: “For Emergency Work, the SOW includes work required to address immediate threats and to remove debris and must include quantitative information. For Permanent Work, the SOW includes a description of how the Applicant plans to repair, or has repa...
FEMA created Advisory Base Flood Elevation (ABFE) maps to show a more current picture of flood risk for coastal New Jersey and New York communities after Hurricane Sandy. For most communities, ABFE information has now been replaced by preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps as the most recent flood...
and dhs budget cuts for the upcoming year left the agency unable to address many of the fixes it wanted to institute. in the summer of 2004, a year before hurricane katrina, senior fema officials were warning that the nation’s need to restore balance between the new focus on counterterrori...
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NEW YORK –In the waning hours prior to the U.S. Federal Government’s partial shutdown, RIMS, the risk management society™, welcomed congressional action to extend the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Extended through May 31, 2019, the program will become the responsibility of inco...
The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency tells lawmakers she has encouraged the agency’s inspector general to review whether an employee was acting alone when directing workers helping hurricane...
While both of those are mitigation programs, the former is only available after major disaster declarations and the latter can only be used to address flood hazards on NFIP insured structures. In considering the PDM program’s future, the recent decision by the Administration to place a new ...
FEMA Flood Maps: Some Standards and Processes in Place to Promote Map Accuracy and Outreach, but Opportunities Exist to Address Implementation Challenges flood mapping activities. GAO analyzed FEMA's mapping standards and information systems, tested quality assurance processes, and interviewed FEMA official...
Tools to access data from the preliminary FIRMs, including maps, the “What is My BFE?” address lookup tool, GIS data, and supporting technical data and reports. New York/New Jersey Coastal Storm Surge Study Technical Reports View a report and technical documents that summarize the new storm...
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