Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed 1 comment on this docket between Dec 1, 2023 and Dec 1, 2023. 17 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 970d ago.
The Natural Resources Defense Council ("NRDC") appreciates the opportunity to provide comments to the Federal Emergency Management Agency ("FEMA") on the proposed rule: "Updates to Floodplain Management and Protection of Wetlands Regulations to Implement the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard ("the Proposed Rule"). NRDC submits the attached comments in support of the Proposed Rule.
On October 2, 2023, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) and supplementary policy that proposed to implement the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard (FFRMS) and update the agency’s 8-step decision-making process for floodplain reviews by changing how FEMA defines a floodplain with respect to certain actions and how FEMA uses natural systems, ecosystem processes, and nature-based approaches when developing alternatives to locating a proposed action in the floodplain. After a careful review of the public comments received, FEMA is now issuing a final rule that implements the proposed rule, with some minor amendments.
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