FLOOD01429

• County: Statewide
• Title: NFIP/CRS Update - FEMA Elevation Certificates
• Date: 1/1/2000
• Prepared For: US
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Historic FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

CRS Training Courses

FEMA's Emergency Management Institute
(EMI) conducts courses on "Managing
Floodplain Development Tbrough the NFIP,"
"Digital Hazard Data," and "The Community
Rating System," These are oriented to local
building, zoning, planning and engineering
officials.

Some of the schedule information from the last
issue of the NFIP/CRS Update was incorrect
due to a mIsalignment of the columns, Here's
the correct schedule for the week-long classes at
FEMA's Emergency Management Institute
(EMI).

YEAR 2000 EMI COURSES
NFIP Digital Data CRS

March 13-17
May 15-19
Aug, 7-11

Jan, 31-Feb,4
April 10-14
August 21-25

April 10-14
July 31-Aug, 4
Nov. 13-17

Five points are provided if the person
responsible for floodplain permits successfully
graduates from the NFIP course or is a certified
floodplain manager (Section 431,m, Building
Code and Staffing), The Digital Data course
provides good training for incorporating flood
data into a community's geographic information
system (GIS), which is credited under Activity
440 (Flood Data Maintenance),

Another more technical course is also offered,
"Retrofitting Floodprone Residential Buildings"
is designed for engineers and building officials
who have no fear of engineering formulas:
August 14-18,2000, It is an excellent course for
those who want a background to provide flood
protection assistance to residents (credited under
Activity 360),

Tuition for these courses is free for state and
local government officials and travel stipends
are available, For more information, contact the
training office of your state emergency manage-
ment agency or call EMI at 1-800-238-3358,

In addition to the courses held at EMI's
Emmitsburg campus, several FEMA regions
have "field deployed" the NFIP course, Contact
your FEMA Regional Office or State NFIP
Coordinator for information about training in
your area,

NFIP/CRS Update

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The first field-deployed CRS course is tenta,
tively scheduled for Biloxi, Mississippi, It is
sponsored by the Mississippi and Alabama
Emergency Management agencies, It is open to
communities from those two states. Interested
officials should contact the NFIP State
Coordinators at the Mississippi Emergency
Management Agency ([phone]) or the
Alabama Emergency Management Agency
([phone]),

Local Web sites

More and more communities are establishmg
their own local websites or adding flood
protection information to them. Here are four
interesting ones:

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina:
www.ci.hilton-head-island.sc.us

Skagit County, Washington:
www.skagitcounty.net/floodJindex.htrn

Santa Clara Valley Water District:
www.scvwd.dst.ca.us

Fort Collms, Colorado:
www.ci.fortcollins.co.us/
C _SAFETY /OEMlflood,htrn

The Community Rating Task Force is consider-
ing special credit for those webslles that can be
shown to be more effective than the traditlOnal
mailing and newsletter outreach projects, As
part of its deliberations, the Task Force is
gathering information on local experiences.

Communities with websites that include flood
information are requested to forward their
website addresses to the CRS website contrac-
tor, [e-mail], by March 15,2000,

The Task Force is also interested in any
community's experiences or research that shows
how much the website is used and whether
specific flood protection activities by local
property owners can be traced to website use.

If you are developing your own site and want
appropriate links where users can get additional
information, try the links at the Association of
State Floodplain Managers' website,
www.floods.org/links.htm.

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Winter 2000