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The
Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program
(NFIP) has experienced several large flood disasters over its history,
particularly in 2005, 2008, 2012, and 2017. As a result of these flood
disasters, the cost of flood policy claims far exceeded the NFIP’s premium
revenues, and in turn, the NFIP incurred debt to the U.S. Treasury.
In January 2017, FEMA made
a cornerstone placement of reinsurance for the 2017 calendar year, transferring
$1.042 billion of the NFIP’s financial risk to the private sector, specifically
25 reinsurers. Under the agreement, the reinsurers agreed to indemnify FEMA for
flood claims on an occurrence basis.
FEMA’s 2017 reinsurance placement is a cornerstone for a
multi-year strategy that promotes private sector participation in flood-risk
management.
FEMA recently published a
notice of its intended reinsurance procurement for the NFIP for calendar year
2018. The official notice can be found at https://www.fema.gov/nfip-reinsurance-program. This notice includes all the procurement, contact
information, and details on how to submit a request for participation.
Due to the current terror threat
environment, and with input from
intelligence and law enforcement partners, the Department of Homeland Security updated and extended the National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin for six
months. This marks the
fifth iteration of the Bulletin on the terror threats, and it has been reissued
three times since its initial release in December 2015.
To
read the new NTAS Bulletin, visit https://www.dhs.gov/national-terrorism-advisory-system.
In observance of National Native American Heritage Month, FEMA’s
Individual and Community Preparedness Division and the Office of External
Affairs Tribal Affairs will host a webinar on Wednesday, November 29 from
3:00 to 4:00 p.m. ET focusing on disaster preparedness and resilience
efforts serving tribal communities. You’ll hear from several leaders who have
worked to put preparedness into action.
Title: Commemorating
Native American Heritage Month through Tribal Emergency Management
Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET
How to Join the Webinar:
Please register
for the event using the Adobe Connect registration web link. Be sure to test
your Adobe Connect connection prior to the meeting. This webinar will offer captioning.
FEMA
is hosting 60-minute webinars to discuss the National Qualification System (NQS) and
answer questions related to the National Incident Management System NQS supporting tools. Each
webinar is open to all interested parties and will cover the same information.
- Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017, 11:00 a.m. ET
- Monday, Nov. 20, 2017, 10 a.m. ET
- Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017, 3 p.m. ET
- Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, 12 p.m. ET
- (Guam) Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017, 6 p.m. ET
These webinars will focus on a recently released series of
National Incident Management System (NIMS) resource management documents that
enhance the effectiveness of sharing resources between jurisdictions, known as
mutual aid. NIMS provides a nationwide approach to resource management,
enabling stakeholders to work together to manage all threats and hazards,
regardless of the incident’s cause or size.
To review the NQS documents, go
to http://www.FEMA.gov/national-qualification-system. To review the Resource Typing documents other than NQS, go
to https://rtlt.preptoolkit.fema.gov/Public. To register for one of the webinars, go to
http://www.FEMA.gov/national-qualification-system.
Final Nationwide Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on the National Flood Insurance Program
On
November 3, FEMA published a Federal Register [FEMA-2012-0012-0081] Notice for a final National
Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Nationwide Programmatic Environmental Impact
Statement (NPEIS). As
required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), FEMA
developed this final NPEIS to
examine the impacts of proposed improvements and modifications to
the NFIP. This final NPEIS
includes an evaluation of the potential impacts to the natural and human environment
associated with the NFIP
at a programmatic level, as
well as an evaluation
of impacts
of alternative proposals to modify the
NFIP. Comments received on the NFIP draft NPEIS and FEMA’s revisions and
responses are included in the Final NPEIS and Appendix M.
The public can download the final NPEIS
via www.regulations.gov [Docket
ID FEMA-2012-0012-0081]. For additional information,
visit www.fema.gov/programmatic-environmental-impact-statement. Comments may be sent via email nfip-programmatic-eis@fema.dhs.gov or by paper, per below, by December 3,
2017.
U.S. Postal Service
Mail
All comments submitted via
mail should be sent to:
Regulatory Affairs Legal Division Office of Chief Counsel
Federal
Emergency Management Agency
500
C Street SW, Room 8NE
Washington,
DC 20472-3100
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