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Association of State Floodplain Managers
AND HE SAID
Floods are 'acts
of God,' but
flood losses are
largely acts of
man.
1945 PhD Dissertation
Human Adjustments to
Flood by Gilbert F.
White
ASFPM’s Mission
Mitigate the
losses, costs,
and human
suffering caused
by flooding.
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Protect the
natural and
beneficial
functions of
floodplains.
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What does ASFPM do?
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National and State Policy Issues
National CFM® Certification
State Chapter Services & Support
Develop Publications & Resource Materials
for Floodplain Managers
No Adverse Impact (NAI)
Conferences & Events
Continuing Education Development
(ASFPM Webinar Series)
Research and Other Projects
2016 ASFPM Conference
• Important Dates:
– Sponsor and Exhibitor
Prospectus available Sept 2015
– Call for Abstracts and Workshops
deadline Oct 31, 2015
– ASFPM Foundation Collegiate
Student Paper Competition
submission deadline TBD –
approx. January 2016
– Registration Opens Feb 1, 2016
– Annual National Awards
submittal deadline TBD – approx.
March 2016. Forward winners of
your Chapter awards for
consideration
National Policy Issues
The broad problem of flood-loss
reduction is that the rate at
which flood losses are being
eliminated by construction of
engineering or land-treatment
works is of about the same
magnitude as the rate at which
new property is being subjected
to damage. - GFW
Federal Budget (FY16) FEMA
• Administration Request
– Flood Mapping. $400 m. ($279 million
in appropriated funds)
– Pre Disaster Mitigation. $200 m
– Flood Mitigation Assistance. $175 m
Not passed yet; most likely scenario is a
negotiated budget between President and
Congress
NFIP Reform Implementation
• Several studies recently released or to be
released soon:
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Community Based Flood Insurance (7/15)
NFIP Affordability Part 1 (3/15)
NFIP Affordability Part 2 (fall 2015)
Flood Risk Rating (negatively elevated
structures – 6/15)
• TMAC established and working
– First report focusing on incorporating best
available climate science and future flood risk
in flood mapping due this fall, as well as the
TMAC annual report
NFIP Reform Implementation
• Continued rate adjustments
• HFIAA surcharges added (4/15) - $25 primary
residences, $250 all other buildings
• Optional 10K deductible
• Reserve assessment increased to 15% for most
policies
• Rates going up, up, up!
• Lending Regulators Final Rule (7/15)
• Requires mandatory escrow of flood insurance after
Jan 1, 2016 for residential loans (some exceptions)
• Mandatory purchase will not apply to detached
structures in SFHA (effective 10/1/15)
EO 13690 and FFRMS
• Issued 1/30/15, it updates EO 11988
• Draft guidelines for implementation establishes new
flood risk standard for federal actions. Agencies
have three options:
– Freeboard approach 3 ft. for critical actions, 2 ft for
everything else;
– 500-year elevation; or
– Climate informed science to develop new BFE
• Requires consideration of nature based alternatives
• Administration reviewing 300+ comments on draft
guidelines; will finalize this fall. In the meantime
agencies have developed implementation plans
ASFPM STRONGLY SUPPORTS AND HAS DEVELOPED WEBPAGE FOR
INFORMATION LINKED TO ASFPM HOMEPAGE AT WWW.FLOODS.ORG
EO Considerations for Floodplain
Managers
• Development by a federal agency comes to your
community
– Understand how to apply the FFRMS
– Assist the agency in determining whether action is in the floodplain,
ensure that an appropriate alternatives analysis is done
– Ensure consideration of state and local standards, although draft
implementing guidelines unclear whether state/local standards
must be followed. This has been a long-standing issue with
EO11988
• Community/state participates in a federal program that is
subject to the new EO and FFRMS:
– Understand how to apply the FFRMS
– Ensure that project budgets/planning considers FFRMS
– Act as local expert in identifying alternatives including those
incorporating natural systems
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EO Considerations for Floodplain
Managers
• Impact on NFIP
– New EO will not trigger need to update local floodplain
management ordinances
– New EO and FFRMS will not increase flood insurance rates; in fact,
it will likely decrease them by 50% or more for buildings subject to
the EO
• Impact on levees:
– Corps of Engineers levee standards already incorporate up to a 3
foot freeboard for design and construction purposes
– Corps of Engineers already using future conditions and climate
change factors for levee design and construction
– Should have little to no impact on levees and Corps programs
overall
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FHA 203K Loan
• FHA's primary program for the rehabilitation and
repair of single family properties:
– Flood mitigation activities are eligible
– Combines financing for purchase or refinance and repairs
into one loan
– Can be used in cases where property owner finds flood
insurance too expensive or generally to mitigate flood risk
– Must be done by a FHA approved lender – they already
exist throughout the country
– Competitive mortgage rates
New FHA guidelines explicitly making hazard mitigation activities eligible will be released
this fall. ASFPM will be working with HUD to promote nationwide. Stay tuned for more
information!
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NFPPR 2015
• ASFPM’s flagship policy
document, was updated
in 2015
• Contains over 200
recommendations to
improve floodplain
management policy in
the nation
• Basis for recommended
legislation, rule
changes, program
updates
Research and Other Projects
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NAI How-To Guides
• Features:
– 5 NAI level tools in each guide
– Case studies and “How-To”
information
– Based on 7 building blocks in
NAI Toolkit. Three guides
complete: Mitigation,
Infrastructure, and Planning
• Three guides in production:
Education/Outreach, Mapping,
and Regulations
• One guide to start in FY16:
Emergency Services
Great Lakes Coastal
Resilience Planning Guide
www.greatlakesresilience.org
Other Projects
• CRS “Green Book”
– Develop resource guidebook for communities
identifying CRS elements that have co benefits of
CRS credits and protecting natural floodplain functions
– Developing several case studies, show “how-to”
implement specific elements
• Update of PAS report “Subdivision Design in
Flood Hazard Areas”
– Original developed in 1997
– Update to include stormwater issues, platting, new
case studies, legal issues, etc.
• Planner’s Information Exchange
– Partnership with American Planning Association
– 8 webinars over 2 years, both CFM and AICP credits
Other Projects
• Community Floodplain
Management Survey
– Develop baseline of local
program capacity
– Format based on ASFPM State
and Local Program Survey
– Desire is statistically valid data
nationally and in each state
• Comprehensive ASFPM
website update
– Driven by state of the art library
system for organizing
documents and resources
– New features and better
integration with projects
Thank You
The present status of floodplain
management does not encourage
complacency ... On balance, progress
has been far short of what is desirable
or possible, or what was envisaged at
times when the current policies and
activities were initiated - GFW
Credit given to the Natural Hazards Observer
and Rob Pudim for all illustrations in this
presentation
Be a member, get involved!
www.floods.org
ASFPM 14 Policy Committees
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Arid Regions
Coastal Issues
Flood Insurance
Flood Mitigation
Mapping &
Engineering
Standards
• Professional
Development
• Stormwater
Management
• Floodplain Regulations
• No Adverse Impact
• Non-structural
floodproofing
• Natural & Beneficial
Functions
• Training & Outreach
• International
• Higher Education
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