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The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is a program created by the Congress of the United States in 1968 through the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (P.L. 90-448). The NFIP has two purposes: to share the risk of flood losses through flood insurance and to reduce flood damages by restricting floodplain development.
The Training and Education Division within FEMA's National Integration Center directly funds training for responders and provides guidance on training-related expenditures under FEMA's grant programs. Information on designing effective training for first responders is available from the Training and Education Division.
Many CERT programs also provide training in amateur radio operation, shelter operations, flood response, community relations, mass care, the ICS, and the National Incident Management System (NIMS). [citation needed] Each unit of CERT training is ideally delivered by professional responders or other experts in the field addressed by the unit.
"The National Flood Insurance Program Premium Transparency Act is a critical step forward in empowering property owners with the information they need to understand their flood risk and make ...
Nov. 29—More than 40 people from six local agencies came together this week to practice flood fighting techniques in Yuba County, the Yuba Water Agency said on Wednesday. "We take very seriously ...
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) offers flood insurance that you can purchase through an insurance agent. If you don't already have an insurance agent that you like to work with, find ...
The Biggert–Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 was "designed to allow premiums to rise to reflect the true risk of living in high-flood areas." [5] The bill was supposed to deal with the increasing debt of the National Flood Insurance Program by requiring the premiums to reflect real flood risks. [6]
A flood insurance rate map (FIRM) is an official map of a community within the United States that displays the floodplains, more explicitly special hazard areas and risk premium zones, as delineated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). [1]