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      Vacuum Drying
Also called "thermal drying." Items are dried in a vacuum chamber, often at temperatures above 100° F. Caution: this method accelerates aging and causes damage to many materials: animal skins (leather, vellum), film media. Widely available; slower than vacuum freeze-drying, but less expensive.

Glossary Section: Salvage
    Vacuum Freeze-Drying
Items are dried in a vacuum chamber at below-freezing temperatures to minimize swelling and distortion. Generally provides the most satisfactory results; recommended for historic collecting materials and glossy papers. A commercial service available throughout the U.S.

Glossary Section: Salvage
    Valued Policy
A policy in which the insured and the insurer agree on the value of the property insured, that value being payable in the event of a total loss. The Standard Flood Insurance Policy (SFIP) is not a valued policy.

Glossary Section: NFIP - National Flood Insurance Program
    Variance
A grant of relief by a community from the terms of a floodplain management regulation. Because a variance can create an increased risk to life and property, variances from flood elevation or other requirements in the flood ordinance should be rare. Insurance premium rates are required by statute to be based on actuarial risk and will not be modified by the granting of a variance. Specific criteria for granting a variance is described in the supplemental information.

FEMA may review a community's findings justifying the granting of variances, and if that review indicates a pattern inconsistent with the objectives of sound floodplain management, FEMA may take appropriate action up to and including suspending the community from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

***National Flood Insurance Program Requirements***

59.1 - Definition
	59.22 (b) - Requirement to Remedy to the Maximum Extent PossibleGlossary Section: NFIP - National Flood Insurance Program
    VA
Department of Veterans Affairs.

Glossary Section: NDRF - National Disaster Recovery Framework
    VAL
Voluntary Agency Liaison.

Glossary Section: NDRF - National Disaster Recovery Framework
    VALS
Voluntary Agency Liaison Specialist.

Glossary Section: NDRF - National Disaster Recovery Framework
    Very Low Income
For federal housing programs, a household income of 50 percent of the area median by household size. HUD data is used to calculate very low-income limits.

Glossary Section: NDHS - National Disaster Housing Strategy
    Volunteer Fire Department
An agency or organization where no member receives financial compensation (salary, wages or stipend per call) for their services other than life and health insurance and workers' compensation insurance. A department is mostly volunteer if fifty-one percent or more of its membership is comprised of personnel who do not receive financial compensation for their services.

Glossary Section: AFGP - Assistance to Firefighters Grants Program
    Volunteer Firefighter Interest Organization
Volunteer firefighter interest organizations are comprised of firefighters or fire officers who collectively represent the interest of members of several volunteer fire departments or volunteer firefighter members of fire departments from the entire state or locality. Examples of these organizations include county or statewide firefighter associations or chiefs associations and other organizations representing active volunteer firefighters. For-profit organizations are not eligible.

Glossary Section: AFGP - Assistance to Firefighters Grants Program
    Volunteer Incentives
Activities or initiatives that encourage volunteers to continue to participate in fire department programs and activities.

Glossary Section: AFGP - Assistance to Firefighters Grants Program
    Vùng A
Các khu vực có 1% khả năng xảy ra lũ lụt hàng năm và 26% khả năng xảy ra lũ lụt trong thời hạn của khoản thế chấp 30 năm. Bởi vì các khu vực đó không được phân tích chi tiết; không có độ sâu hoặc độ cao ngập lụt cơ sở nào được trình bày trong các khu vực này.
Glossary Section: NFIP - National Flood Insurance Program, Flood Zone Designations
    Vùng A99
Các khu vực có 1% khả năng xảy ra lũ lụt hàng năm sẽ được bảo vệ bởi hệ thống kiểm soát lũ lụt của Liên bang, trong đó việc xây dựng đã đạt được các yêu cầu pháp lý cụ thể. Không có độ sâu hoặc độ cao ngập lụt cơ sở nào được trình bày trong các khu vực này.
Glossary Section: NFIP - National Flood Insurance Program, Flood Zone Designations
    Vùng AE
Vùng ngập lũ cơ sở xác định được độ cao ngập lụt cơ sở. Vùng AE hiện được sử dụng trên FIRM mới thay vì các Vùng A1 – A30.
Glossary Section: NFIP - National Flood Insurance Program, Flood Zone Designations
    Vùng AH
Các khu vực có 1% khả năng xảy ra ngập lụt nông hàng năm, thường ở dạng ao, với độ sâu trung bình từ 1 đến 3 feet. Những khu vực này có 26% khả năng xảy ra lũ lụt trong thời hạn của khoản thế chấp 30 năm. Độ cao ngập lụt cơ sở thu được từ các phân tích chi tiết được trình bày tại những khoảng thời gian đã chọn trong các khu vực này.
Glossary Section: NFIP - National Flood Insurance Program, Flood Zone Designations
    Vùng AO
Các khu vực có nguy cơ xảy ra lũ lụt ở sông hoặc suối và các khu vực có 1% hoặc nhiều hơn 1% khả năng xảy ra ngập lụt nông mỗi năm, thường ở dạng dòng chảy, với độ sâu trung bình từ 1 đến 3 feet. Những khu vực này có 26% khả năng xảy ra lũ lụt trong thời hạn của khoản thế chấp 30 năm. Độ sâu lũ trung bình thu được từ các phân tích chi tiết được trình bày trong các khu vực này.
Glossary Section: NFIP - National Flood Insurance Program, Flood Zone Designations
    Vùng AR
Các khu vực có nguy cơ gia tăng lũ lụt tạm thời do xây dựng hoặc khôi phục hệ thống kiểm soát lũ lụt (chẳng hạn như đê hoặc đập). Các yêu cầu mua bảo hiểm lũ lụt bắt buộc sẽ được áp dụng, nhưng mức phí sẽ không vượt quá mức phí đối với các vùng A không được đánh số nếu cấu trúc được xây dựng hoặc khôi phục tuân thủ các quy định quản lý vùng ngập lũ của Vùng AR.
Glossary Section: NFIP - National Flood Insurance Program, Flood Zone Designations
    V-Zone Certificate
National Flood Insurance Progam (NFIP) regulations require coastal communities to ensure that buildings built in V Zones are anchored to resist wind and water loads acting simultaneously. Buildings in V Zones are subject to a greater hazard than buildings built in other types of floodplains. Not only do they have to be elevated above the Base Flood Elevation (BFE), they must be protected from the impact of waves, hurricane-force winds and erosion.

A registered professional engineer or architect must certify that the design and planned methods of construction meet NFIP requirements. The community must maintain a copy of this certification in the permit file for all structures built or substantially improved in the V Zone.

If breakaway walls are used to enclose areas below the building that exceed a design safe loading resistance of 20 pounds per square feet, those walls must also be certified by the registered professional engineer or architect.

***National Flood Insurance Program Requirements***

60.3 - Flood plain management criteria for flood-prone areas
	(e)(4) - V Zone Anchoring Requirement
		(e)(5) - Breakaway Wall RequirementGlossary Section: NFIP - National Flood Insurance Program
    Violation
The failure of a structure or other development to be fully compliant with the community's floodplain management regulations. A structure or other development without the elevation certificate, other certifications, or other evidence of compliance required by the community's floodplain management ordinance is presumed to be in violation until such time as that documentation is provided.

To remedy a violation means to bring the structures or other development into full or partial compliance with State or local regulations or, if this is not possible, to reduce the impacts of its non-compliance. Ways that impacts may be reduced include protecting the structure or other affected development from flood damages, implementing the enforcement provision of the ordinance or otherwise deterring future similar violations, or reducing Federal financial exposure with regard to the structure or other development.

***National Flood Insurance Program Requirements***

59.1 - Definition
	59.22 (b) - Requirement to Remedy to the Maximum Extent PossibleGlossary Section: NFIP - National Flood Insurance Program
    Vùng A1 – 30
Các khu vực này là những Vùng A được đánh số (ví dụ: A7 hoặc A14). Đây là vùng ngập lũ cơ sở, trong đó FIRM cho biết BFE (bản cũ).
Glossary Section: NFIP - National Flood Insurance Program, Flood Zone Designations
  
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