Risk MAP Guidelines and Standards (G&S) 2014 Spring Maintenance Cycle

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) sent this bulletin at 01/13/2014 09:08 PM EST

Risk MAP Guidelines and Standards (G&S) 2014 Spring Maintenance Cycle

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) maintains guidelines and standards to support the Risk MAP program. These guidelines and standards define the specific implementation of the statutory and regulatory requirements for NFIP flood risk analysis and mapping, and address the performance of flood risk projects, processing of letters of map change and related Risk MAP activities. More information is available at: http://www.fema.gov/guidelines-and-standards-flood-risk-analysis-and-mapping.

FEMA has established a maintenance plan for the Risk MAP Guidelines and Standards and plans to issue updates on a semi-annual basis. This notice provides information about the first semi-annual update, expected to be released in April 2014.

FEMA has identified three additional standards to implement. There will be a public review of the new standards.

The remainder of this update is focused on the ongoing guidelines and standards transformation process that FEMA is implementing. The product of the first phase of this transformation was the Policy for Flood Risk Analysis and Mapping, which comprises the standards for practitioners of the Risk MAP program. FEMA is now conducting a guidance transformation of its legacy guidelines and specification documents to produce new guidance in support of this policy.

Additional updates may include republishing Technical References that contain guidance. This information will be removed and included in new guidance documents. Any updates to the Technical Reference documents would not affect the content or any associated database schemas.

If you have feedback on FEMA guidelines and standards, you may submit comments and suggestions by e-mail to FEMA.GS@riskmapcds.com.

Item #	Doc. Type	Subject	Description
1	Standard	All prelims are to be posted via the MSC	New Program Standard to support distribution of prelim data via the MSC
2	Standard	Map repository information must match across all published documents	New working standard to address concerns with differences between the content in the Federal Register vs. the Flood Insurance Study.
3	Standard	Using information , when available, from the NLD	New standard to address requirements from the "Flood Protection Structure Accreditation Task Force"
4	Guidance	Guidance for Levee Accreditation when USACE Findings are Available	Implement recommendations from the document “Flood Protection Structure Accreditation Task Force”. Clarifies how FEMA will use the new USACE findings to support levee accreditation activities.
5	Guidance	Base Map	Output from the guidance transformation process
6	Guidance	Changes Since Last FIRM	Output from the guidance transformation process
7	Guidance	Flood Depth & Analysis Grids	Output from the guidance transformation process
8	Guidance	Flood Risk Assessments	Output from the guidance transformation process
9	Guidance	Areas of Mitigation Interest	Output from the guidance transformation process
10	Guidance	Notice-to-User	Output from the guidance transformation process
11	Guidance	Quality Management	Output from the guidance transformation process
12	Guidance	Stakeholder Engagement: Discovery	Output from the guidance transformation process
13	Guidance	General Coastal Considerations	Output from the guidance transformation process
14	Guidance	Coastal Study Documentation and Intermediate Data Submittals	Output from the guidance transformation process
15	Guidance	Coastal Barrier Resources System	Output from the guidance transformation process
16	Guidance	FIRM Graphics	Output from the guidance transformation process
17	Guidance	FIRM Index	Output from the guidance transformation process
18	Guidance	Metadata	Output from the guidance transformation process
19	Guidance	Coastal-Specific Non-Regulatory Datasets	Output from the guidance transformation process
20	Guidance	Vertical Datum	Output from the guidance transformation process
21	Guidance	National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL)	Output from the guidance transformation process
22	Guidance	Stakeholder Engagement: Due Process	Output from the guidance transformation process
23	Guidance	Stakeholder Engagement: Project Planning	Output from the guidance transformation process
24	Guidance	Discovery	Output from the guidance transformation process
25	Guidance	Flood Risk Report	Output from the guidance transformation process
26	Guidance	Flood Risk Map	Output from the guidance transformation process
27	Guidance	Flood Risk Database	Output from the guidance transformation process
28	Guidance	Coastal 2D wave model results as input to 1D wave height analysis	Update to address some specific concerns related to coastal issues
29	Guidance	Coastal DCS	Update to address some specific concerns related to coastal issues
30	Guidance	Coastal Great Lakes Flood Hazard Analysis	Update to address some specific concerns related to coastal issues
31	Guidance	Coastal Mapping of Primary Frontal Dunes	Update to address some specific concerns related to coastal issues
32	Guidance	Coastal/Riverine Tie-Ins	Update to address some specific concerns related to coastal issues
33	Guidance	Pacific Coast Wave Setup Reduction at the Toe of Barriers	Update to address some specific concerns related to coastal issues
34	Tech. Ref.	TBD	Updates as necessary to remove guidance

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