OkieDokie

There are many (perhaps most) LOMCs that have no bearing on the maps and are simply used for property owners to waive mandatory purchase of flood insurance. Eliminate the LOMC process for these and rely exclusively on a LODR type action - basically put it in the hands of the insurance side of the house. Flood maps and flood risk change - the focus should be on whether these single parcel determinations are susceptible ...more »

Lets not forget that ultimately this is about hazard identification and now risk assessment. The hazard identification aspect seems to be getting lost. No slick risk communications effort will work if the base data is crappy.

I find it appaling that we still have communities and counties that have old paper maps that have not beem modernized by MAP Modernization or Risk MAP. After the entire Map Mod effort and the Risk MAP effort. Part of the new priorities have to be getting the entire inventory into a digitall platform AND a plan for efficiently mapping rural and other areas. I continue to be stumped why this cannot be done given the ...more »

State mitigation staff are trusted in the community and have great promise to help with community engagement and risk communication; however, they have little capacity to do so. Most state mitigation programs exist by pulling management costs from existing mitigaiton grant programs and as a result almost all effort is to ensure that those programs are implemented. Why can't FEMA, as either part of a CTP or through PDM ...more »

I have to wonder if we are leveraging the community engagement that is already built into the mitigation planning process. As part of the mitigation planning process, there is a required group participating in not only the plan development but also helping in maintaining plans. Why aren't we better tying the mapping update process to this existing element? Then it becomes mutually reinforcing - lending value and visibility ...more »

The proposed grant program is supposed to include mitigation projects as eligible and as a result, eliminates the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program. Yet, based on the funding priorities in the NPGP vision document, mitigation has a 0.00% chance of being funded. Instead, under the guise of giving more flexibility, mitigation loses. I don't understand the priorities of DHS - every year in the last decade natural ...more »