delivering quality data to increase awareness that leads to action to reduce or eliminate flood risk
What is the Risk MAP Vision?
100
Program Operations, Annual Solicitation, and EMI Training
What are the 3 pillars of the CTP Program?
100
The latest law that reauthorized and reformed the NFIP
What is the Biggert-Waters Reform Act of 2012?
100
Provide credible and actionable data and tools to support risk-informed decision making
what is one of FEMA's strategic priorities
100
Higher standards, green space, and elevation
What are 3 recommended floodplain management activities? Also accepted are 3 CRS activities.
200
other than regulatory products, two of the valuable products or services we can provide through a flood risk project
What is/are:
- non-regulatory products
- community engagement
- mitigation technical assistance
- discovery report and flood risk map
- first order approximation
- flood risk review/resilience meetings
200
An example of a program that uses cooperative agreements for funding
What is the Cooperating (not CoperaTIVE) Technical Partners (CTP) Program? Cooperative agreements fall under grants because they are for the public benefit. Note: it is not a contract
200
the name of the law that repeals portions of BW-12
What is the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act? (must be singular)
200
increases the minimum freeboard requirement for federally funded projects to 2' above BFE
what is the Executive Order 13690?
200
an inclusive, informed process that addresses the social, economic, natural and cultural, technical, and organizational dimensions within a community
(per the National Mitigation Framework)
What is Community Resilience?
300
FEMA's strategic approach for making wise investments for flood risk projects
what are examples how your peers communicate risk?
300
according to Hammurabi, this is the punishment for an improperly constucted house that collapses and kills its owner
what is death?
300
land use planning, econ development, private enterprise, schools, advocacy groups
What are efforts/partners to help you achieve resilience? Also accepted are stakeholder groups.
300
this is a core of what FEMA does
What is risk reduction? (Roy Wright said this in his Feb 2015 session)
400
The number of years ago the budgeting process for this year started?
What is 2 years ago (2013). The process can take over 3 fiscal years (up to 2 to Formulate and 1 to Execute); and
Includes 5 phases including Formulate (FEMA, DHS, OMB, Congress), Execute (FEMA)
400
this is the new website designed as a space for CTPs to share success stories, challenges, and materials to be a resource for peer-to-peer sharing?
what is the CTP Collaboration Center?
400
true or false-- BW-12 required FEMA to adopt International Building Codes as NFIP minimum standards
What is False? (Because of concerns about States' rights and the 10th Amendment)
400
Any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to human life and property from natural hazards
What is Hazard Mitigation?
400
the doctrine that speaks to the importance of natural disasters and the national preparedness responsibility we share at all levels in order to create a more resilient Nation.
What is Presidential Policy Directive 8 (PPD-8)?
500
The three Risk MAP measures for which Regions are accountable
What are Deployment, NVUE (or Quality Data), and Action?
500
part of the program development process, not only the application process, and definitely not what "Johns" get arrested for.
what is "solicitation?"
500
the one-stop-shop to learn each state-adopted building code?
what is ICCsafe.org? [note for April 2015--you may want to replace this question
500
The foundation for a community’s long-term strategy to reduce disaster losses, and break the cycle of disaster damage, reconstruction, and repeated damage.
What are Mitigation Plans?
500
Regulatory Mechanisms, Natural Systems, and Structure/Infrastructure Projects.
What are the categories that mitigation actions that directly reduce risk generally fall into? (from the Feb 2015 Action Measures session)