Document ID: FEMA-2014-0022-0015
Agency: fema
Document Type: Notice
Title: Technical Mapping Advisory Council; Meeting
Posted Date: 2015-11-23T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 225 (Monday, November 23, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72981-72982]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-29807]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[Docket ID FEMA-2014-0022]

Technical Mapping Advisory Council; Meeting

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS

ACTION: Committee management; Notice of Federal advisory committee 
meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Technical 
Mapping Advisory Council (TMAC) will meet via conference call on 
December 9 and 10, 2015. The meeting will be open to the public.

DATES: The TMAC will meet via conference call on Wednesday, December 9 
from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST), and on 
Thursday, December 10, 2015 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST. Please 
note that the meeting will close early if the TMAC has completed its 
business.

ADDRESSES: For information on how to access to the conference call, 
information on services for individuals with disabilities, or to 
request special assistance for the meeting, contact the person listed 
in For Further Information Contact below as soon as possible. Members 
of the public who wish to dial in for the meeting must register in 
advance by sending an email to FEMA-TMAC@fema.dhs.gov (attention Mark 
Crowell) by 11 a.m. EST on Friday, December 4, 2015.
    To facilitate public participation, members of the public are 
invited to provide written comments on the issues to be considered by 
the TMAC, as listed in the Supplementary Information section below. The 
Agenda and other associated reports and material will be available for 
review at www.fema.gov/TMAC by Wednesday, December 2, 2015. Written 
comments to be considered by the committee at the time of the meeting 
must be received by Friday, December 4, 2015, identified by Docket ID 
FEMA-2014-0022, and submitted by one of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
     Email: Address the email TO: FEMA-RULES@fema.dhs.gov and 
CC: FEMA-TMAC@fema.dhs.gov. Include the docket number in the subject 
line of the message. Include name and contact detail in the body of the 
email.
     Mail: Regulatory Affairs Division, Office of Chief 
Counsel, FEMA, 500 C Street SW., Room 8NE, Washington, DC 20472-3100.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the words 
``Federal Emergency Management Agency'' and the docket number for this 
action. Comments received will be posted without alteration at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided. 
Docket: For docket access to read background documents or comments 
received by the TMAC, go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for 
the Docket ID FEMA-2014-0022.
    A public comment period will be held on December 9, 2015, from 
11:00-11:20 a.m. and December 10, 2015 from 11:00-11:20 a.m. EST. 
Speakers are requested to limit their comments to no more than two 
minutes. Each public comment period will not exceed 20 minutes. Please 
note that the public comment periods may end before the time indicated, 
following the last call for comments. Contact the individual listed 
below to register as a speaker by close of business on Friday, December 
4, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Crowell, Designated Federal 
Officer for the TMAC, FEMA, 1800 South Bell Street Arlington, VA 22202, 
telephone (202) 646-3432, and email mark.crowell@fema.dhs.gov. The TMAC 
Web site is: http://www.fema.gov/TMAC.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of this meeting is given under the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. Appendix.
    As required by the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 
2012, the TMAC makes recommendations to the FEMA Administrator on: (1) 
How to improve, in a cost-effective manner, the (a) accuracy, general 
quality, ease of use, and distribution and dissemination of flood 
insurance rate maps and risk data; and (b) performance metrics and 
milestones required to effectively and efficiently map flood risk areas 
in the United States; (2) mapping standards and guidelines for (a) 
flood insurance rate maps, and (b) data accuracy, data quality, data 
currency, and data eligibility; (3) how to maintain, on an ongoing 
basis, flood insurance rate maps and flood risk identification; (4) 
procedures for delegating mapping activities to State and local mapping 
partners; and (5)(a) methods for improving interagency and 
intergovernmental coordination on flood mapping and flood risk 
determination, and (b) a funding strategy to leverage and coordinate 
budgets and expenditures across Federal agencies. Furthermore, the TMAC 
is required to submit an Annual Report to the FEMA Administrator that 
contains: (1) a description of the activities of the Council; (2) an 
evaluation of the status and performance of flood insurance rate maps 
and mapping activities to revise and update Flood Insurance Rate Maps; 
and (3) a summary of recommendations made by the Council to the FEMA 
Administrator.
    The TMAC must also develop recommendations on how to ensure that 
flood insurance rate maps incorporate the best available climate 
science to assess flood risks and ensure that FEMA uses the best 
available methodology to

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consider the impact of the rise in sea level and future development on 
flood risk. The TMAC must collect these recommendations and present 
them to the FEMA Administrator in a Future Conditions Risk Assessment 
and Modeling Report (hereafter, Future Conditions Report). Further, in 
accordance with the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 
2014, the TMAC must develop a review report related to flood mapping in 
support of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
    Agenda: On December 9, 2015, there will be a review of the final 
Annual, and Future Conditions Reports. The final reports were voted 
upon and approved by the TMAC, subject to amendments agreed upon by the 
Council at the previous TMAC meeting, which was held on October 20 and 
21, 2015. After a review of the content of the reports, a motion will 
be entertained to formally submit each report with executive summaries 
to the FEMA Administrator. On December 10, FEMA's Flood Mapping 
Integrated Project Team will brief the TMAC on the status of FEMA's 
mapping program. This briefing is intended to help the TMAC prepare for 
the review report required by the Homeowner Flood Insurance 
Affordability Act of 2014. A brief public comment period will take 
place at the beginning of the meeting each day. A more detailed agenda 
will be posted by December 4, 2015, at http://www.fema.gov/TMAC.

     Dated: November 17, 2015.
Roy E. Wright,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Insurance and Mitigation, Federal 
Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. 2015-29807 Filed 11-20-15; 8:45 am]
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