[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 93 (Friday, May 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 30600]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-11987]


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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY


National Flood Insurance Program Call for Issues Final Report

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: We (FEMA) announce when and how our final report on the 
National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)'s Call for Issues will be 
available to the public.

DATES: On June 15, 2000, we will post the report on our web site and 
will begin accepting orders for copies of the final report.
    By August 1, 2000, we will make an initial distribution of the 
final report to each of the 173 respondents. We will respond to orders 
from the public during the fourth quarter of this fiscal year.

ADDRESSES: To place orders for the final NFIP Call for Issues report 
please contact the FEMA Distribution Center, P.O. Box 2012, Jessup, MD 
20794.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
H. Joseph Coughlin, Jr., Assistant to the Federal Insurance 
Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 500 C Street SW., 
Washington, DC 20472; (202) 646-3449, (facsimile) (202) 646-7970, or 
(email) [email protected]; or
Michael Robinson, Acting Chief, Policy Branch, Program Assessment and 
Outreach Division, the Mitigation Directorate, Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, 500 C Street SW., Washington, DC 20472; (202) 646-
2716, (facsimile) (202) 646-2577, or (email) [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On September 9, 1998, we published at 63 FR 
48222 a notice inviting the public to recommend how the National Flood 
Insurance Program (NFIP) may be even more effective than now. During 
the comment period, we received recommendations from 173 respondents. 
Those respondents submitted 796 recommendations spanning the insurance, 
mapping, and floodplain management components of the NFIP. We analyzed 
and evaluated extensively the public's comments and recommendations for 
the NFIP. In a number of cases, we adopted or will adopt the public's 
recommendation on how to improve a specific aspect of the program. In 
many other cases, we had anticipated the recommendation with 
initiatives planned or already underway when we received the 
recommendation. In other cases, we did not adopt the public's 
recommendation either because we do not believe it was in the best 
interests of the program or because we are addressing the 
recommendation in some other way. The final report contains:
     The public's recommendation to improve aspects of the 
NFIP,
     Our decision whether to adopt the public's recommendation, 
including our planned implementation or actual progress, and
     An explanation of our decision.
    On June 15, 2000, we will post the final report on NFIP's Call for 
Issues on FEMA's web site, http://www.fema.    gov/, and we will begin 
to accept orders for copies of the final report from members of the 
public who did not submit written comments during our call for issues. 
By August 1, 2000, we will send a copy of the final report to each of 
the 173 respondents who submitted written recommendations on how to 
improve the NFIP. We will respond to orders for the report from the 
public in the fourth quarter of this fiscal year.
    A number of decisions contained in the report reflect a partial or 
future action that we will take and not the completed action to 
implement our decision. We will therefore publish an annual update to 
show our progress in implementing all recommendations that we have 
adopted--both the work completed since our last update and the current 
status of efforts underway but not yet finished. We will continue to 
publish these annual updates until we complete the final action on all 
adopted recommendations submitted during this call for issues on the 
NFIP.
    We appreciate very much the comments and recommendations that we 
received and want to thank all those who participated for their time, 
effort and insights.

    Dated: May 3, 2000.
Jo Ann Howard,
Administrator, Federal Insurance Administration.
Michael Armstrong,
Associate Director, Mitigation Directorate.
[FR Doc. 00-11987 Filed 5-11-00; 8:45 am]
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