Stages
What are the four stages in Phase One: Audit?
1) Preparation Stage, 2) Diagnostic Assessment Stage, 3) Enhanced Assessment Stage, 4) Full Evaluation Stage
What steps are included in the Preparation Stage?
Community Selection, Community Self-Assessment, Ordinance Review
The primary purpose of the Validate Findings Stage is to engage community officials to collect documentation necessary to verify whether or not ______ are present.
Confirmed Violations
What prompts an auditor to transition the community to Phase Three: Enforcement?
If the community fails to meet the remediation requirements
This tool is used by the auditor to prioritize communities for audits and incorporates equity-focused metrics like the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI).
Community Engagement Prioritization Tool (CEPT)
Which stages in Phase One: Audit are required for all communities?
Preparation Stage and Diagnostic Assessment Stage
What are the three pathways to complete Phase One Audit, after the Diagnostic Assessment Stage?
Complete Phase One Audit,
Advance to Enhanced Assessment Stage,
Fast Track to Full Evaluation Stage
What is the document that auditors approve after confirming violations, which outlines the activities and timelines for addressing Program Deficiencies and Confirmed Violations? And who owns this document?
The Compliance Plan and The Community
This group plays a critical role in supporting Phase Three by informing FEMA of a community’s non-compliance and providing data for enforcement decisions.
State agency personnel
All communities selected for an audit must complete this form, which provides a baseline understanding of the local official’s knowledge and experience.
Community Self-Assessment
During which stage does the auditor call and interview the community?
Diagnostic Assessment Stage
What determines if the community’s Phase One Audit is complete or if they need to transition to the Enhanced Assessment or Full Evaluation Stage?
The results from the Diagnostic Assessment Tool
What do auditors provide to communities to help address Program Deficiencies and Confirmed Violations, which should also be tracked to document the support given?
Technical assistance and recommended resources
These actions are implemented at the federal level during Phase Three and cannot be delegated to states.
Probation and suspension
What is the tool auditors use to evaluate compliance with NFIP minimum requirements during the Ordinance Review.
Ordinance Review Checklist
During which stage does the auditor conduct a floodplain tour, meets with local officials and evaluates documentation?
Full Evaluation Stage
This letter is sent to the community after assessments and contains results, key findings, and required follow-up actions.
Audit Findings Letter
This is the maximum amount of time the community has to correct all Program Deficiencies and Confirmed Violations, unless rare circumstances arise.
two years
Suspending a community from the NFIP is coordinated between these two FEMA entities.
FEMA Headquarters and the FEMA Region
This assessment tool contains standardized questions aligned with compliance audit themes and auto-calculates results.
Diagnostic Assessment Tool
What are the three stages in Phase Two: Audit Follow Up?
1) Validate Findings Stage, 2) Compliance Plan Stage, 3) Monitor, Track, and Verify Compliance Stage
What does the auditor do to complete Phase One Audit?
Upload results/findings into CIS and send Audit Findings Letter
After a community successfully completes its Compliance Plan, auditors issue this letter to confirm the audit follow-up is complete.
Audit Follow Up Letter
Auditors use this tool to assess the community’s compliance, which contains more in-depth questions than in the Diagnostic Assessment Tool aligned to audit themes.
Full Evaluation Tool