NFIP Guidebook: A Local Administrator’s Guide to Floodplain Management and the National Flood Insurance Program

5th edition, March 2009

By: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

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Hazard Mitigation

This guide is designed to help planners and local officials manage floodplains in accordance with National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) requirements. Individual sections address floodplain management concepts, mapping and map revisions, the NFIP, floodplain management at the local level, NFIP floodplain development standards, and flood hazard mitigation.