Guidance and Policy
These are the government committees that decide how discretionary allocations will be spent.
What are the Appropriation Committees?
This is the term for a cost that is specific to a particular cost objective (grant, project, service, activity).
What is Direct Cost?
This is the NOAA Atlas number that provides the most up-to-date information on precipitation estimates.
What is NOAA Atlas 14?
This is the required Quality Review (QR) step that compares the final FIRM panels against the FIRM database.
What is QR5?
This is the number of Strategic Goals used by FEMA to prepare a more resilient Nation.
What is three?
This is the governing Federal statute in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) of the CTP Grant Program.
What is 2 CFR?
This is the term for the portion of grant project costs that are provided to the awarding Federal Agency by the Recipient.
What is Cost Share?
To communicate flood risk, you must know (or be able to estimate) these two parameters or conditions associated with the flood hazard.
What are the consequences (or impacts) and the probability (or likelihood)?
This is an independent third-party review of conflicting technical and/or scientific data submitted during the regulatory appeal period.
What is the Scientific Resolution Panel (SRP)?
These are successful Risk MAP program methods and/or practices that do not rise to the level of being included in the guidance.
What are Applied Approaches (previously known as Best Practices)?
This Act authorizes OMB to issue guidance to promote consistent and efficient use of grants, CAs, and contracts.
What is the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977?
This is the term for the value of all voluntary contributions by any non-Federal source to a CTP project.
What is Leverage?
This is the hydraulic analysis option (A, B, C, D, or E) that could be used to produce either a Zone A or AE regulatory flood zone.
What is D?
Upon receiving their Letter of Final Determination, a community has this long to adopt floodplain management ordinances that comply with new or updated flood hazard information.
What is 6 months?
This is one example of a non-regulatory product that communicates flood hazards.
What is CSLF, depth grids, WSEL grids, percent annual chance (or AEP) grids, or velocity grids?
This is the new close-out period provided to grant recipients by the revision to 2 CFR 200.344.
What is 120 days?
This is the process to revise a FIRM panel, FIS report, or FIRM database when the change does not involve any regulatory updates.
What is a Notice to User (NTU)?
This is the foundational type of analysis upon which model enhancements can be built over time.
What is Base Level Engineering (BLE)?
This is an example of a product that FEMA has developed to help execute the communications portion of your Risk MAP projects?
What is the Guidance for Stakeholder Engagement, CERC Playbook, or FEMA Flood Risk Communication Toolkit For Community Officials?
This new tool produces FIRM panels automatically from a submitted FIRM database via the MIP.
What is the AMP (Automated Map Production) Tool?
This is the single document that lists all of the requirements that must be followed for a Risk MAP study.
What is the FEMA standards policy memo (Standards for Flood Risk Analysis and Mapping Policy)?
This is the term for the type of flood analysis that looks at a wide range of possible flooding scenarios, covering many different flood hazard sources.
What is probabilistic flood analysis?
This is the name of the type of flood hazard associated with rainfall-induced flooding that is most appropriately analyzed by 2D models.
What is pluvial flooding?
During this meeting, FEMA, community members, and stakeholder representatives discuss the initial data collection and coordination effort.
What is the Discovery meeting?
This country has developed charts that combine depths and velocity into different flood hazard classifications.
What is Australia?