IS MY COMMUNITY REQUIRED TO USE THE ADVISORY BASE FLOOD ELEVATIONS DEVELOPED USING THE METHODS IN THE FLOOD RECOVERY GUIDANCE?
A community participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is not required however; they are urged to use the Advisory Base Flood Elevations. Ordinarily FEMA provides scientifically sound flood data to communities in accordance with a well defined regulatory process. This process involves providing preliminary data, affording an appeals procedure, finalizing the data and providing a six-month period of time for communities to adopt the data into their local ordinances and codes. FEMA cannot require a community to adopt new data unless it goes through this process. However, remapping and completing the entire regulatory process generally takes a minimum of two years from the inception of the restudy until new FIRMs become effective. The Flood Recovery Guidance is an interim product that will provide communities with a new estimate of the minimum flood elevations that they can use during reconstruction.
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