Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed 2 comments on this docket between Jan 28, 2022 and Jan 28, 2022. 55 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 1643d ago.
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is pleased to respond to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Request for Information related to revising the National Flood Insurance Program's floodplain management standards. Please see the attached file.
Dear FEMA officials: Please accept these 13,073 public comments from members and online activists of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in support of long-overdue reforms to the National Flood Insurance Program that account for more severe and frequent storms and flooding resulting from worsening climate change. These much-needed changes will reduce harm to the millions of people and properties at increased risk of flooding, especially those in low-income communities and communities of color, which are disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis. A new, climate-smart flood insurance program should: *Provide timely assistance to homeowners who want to move to higher ground *Ensure that home buyers and renters are aware of past flood damage before they choose a home by adopting a national flood disclosure requirement *Modernize FEMA's land-use standards to curb new development in flood-prone areas *Include future sea-level rise and flood risks on official flood maps to guide development away from these increasingly vulnerable low-lying areas Climate-fueled disasters are happening at a frightening pace, and flood disasters are the most common and costly. We need to make sure that decisions as important as where we build and where we live fully account for current and future climate impacts. Without major reforms, the National Flood Insurance Program is a liability to efforts to cope with flood disasters. FEMA must quickly move to transform the program into the climate-smart program the nation needs. Thank you.
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