Public Comment Period for Proposed Alternatives FEMA's Community Rating System

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FEMA is seeking public comments on redesigning the Community Rating System under the National Flood Insurance Program to enhance the program’s effectiveness, promote resilience, and mitigate the financial impacts of flooding on communities.

Date: 2024-07-11T11:00:002024-09-10T19:00:00September 10, 2024 July 11, 2024 - September 10, 2024

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The Community Rating System is a voluntary incentive program that recognizes and encourages floodplain management practices that exceed the minimum requirements in the National Flood Insurance Program. The agency is evaluating the Community Rating System’s potential to provide ongoing support of state, local, tribal and territorial governments goals and needs around floodplain management.

FEMA published in the Federal Register this request for information is to gather public feedback on ways the agency can improve the Community Rating System program:

to incentivize communities to take measurable actions and make sustained progress that reduce current and future flood risk;
to embed equity as a foundation of the Community Rating System program;
to incentivize communities to promote property owners to purchase flood insurance to reduce their financial exposure to flood risk; and
to deliver a community participant-centered and modernized program.

FEMA Offered Three Virtual Meetings to Provide Comments

FEMA hosted three 90-minute public meetings to explain the proposed changes and how to provide information for public comment. Participants registered in advance and were confirmed on a first-come, first-served basis. The maximum number of participants was capped at is 500.

The materials for these three sessions are available online.

Session 1: Wednesday, Aug. 21