Public Information – CRS Resources, Guides and Activity Info

CRS Resources Categorized by Activity

The following guides, checklists and other materials, most of them referred to in the CRS Coordinator’s Manual, are optional aids to help communities with their CRS programs.

300 Series – Public Information

Activity 310 (Elevation Certificates)

  • Elevation Certificate (FEMA Form 086-0-033) Checklist
  • Elevation Certificate Correction Form (⬇Download .pdf)

Permit List

 

Activity 320 (Map Information Service)

  • Using Google Earth to View Flood Maps (⬇Download .pdf)
  • Illustrations reproduced from the Coordinator?™s Manual

 

Activity 330 (Outreach Projects)

  • Changes in Criteria and Scoring for CRS Outreach Projects—Compares the scoring of outreach projects under the 2017?Coordinator?™s Manual?with that of earlier editions.?(⬇Download .pdf)
  • Outreach Projects for Credit —A guide for helping communities conduct outreach creditable under the CRS.?(⬇Download .pdf)
  • Outreach Project Credit Worksheets—A spreadsheet useful for calculating credit for this activity.??(⬇Download .xls)
  • Developing a Program for Public Information for CRS Credit—A guide to help communities create and maintain a creditable public information program.?(⬇Download .pdf)
  • Examples of Local Programs for Public Information (PPIs)
  • Building Public Support for Floodplain Management—A guidebook by the Association of State Floodplain Managers that explains how to create and maintain public buy-in for flood mitigation programs.?(⬇Download .pdf)
  • CRS Credit for Planning Committees—A two-page handout summarizing the use of committees for planning CRS-creditable activities.?(⬇Download .pdf)
  • Flood Response Preparations Project (FRP) Credit Worksheet?(⬇Download .xls)

 

Activity 340 (Hazard Disclosure)

 

 

Activity 360 (Flood Protection Assistance)

Local Flood Proofing Programs—The classic, 2005 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers handbook about altering an existing building or its immediate area to prevent or minimize flood damage. (⬇Download .pdf)

 

Activity 370 (Flood Insurance Promotion)

How to calculate Credit –

  • Flood Insurance Promotion Worksheet—A spreadsheet useful for calculating credit for this activity.?(⬇Download .xlsx)
  • Outreach Project Credit Worksheets—A spreadsheet useful for calculating credit for this activity.?(⬇Download .xls)

Making Corrections to the Repetitive Loss List

Making Corrections to the Repetitive Loss List is a one-page CRS handout that describes the new procedure communities submit to FEMA corrections to the repetitive loss list, using the Repetitive Loss Update Worksheet, also known as the AW-501.

Community Incentives for Nature-Based Flood Solutions

 

 

A Guide to FEMA’s Community Rating System For Conservation Practitioners

 

2021

 

Nature-based solutions (NBS)—such as open space protection and wetland restoration— can effectively reduce flood risk and are creditable components of the CRS. The conservation community can and should partner with municipalities to plan and design “nature-based solutions” that restore and protect natural areas, reduce flood risk and earn citizens a discount on their flood insurance rate.

 

Link to Community Incentives for Nature-Based Flood Solutions – A Guide to FEMA’s Community Rating System For Conservation Practitioners.

 

NFIP/CRS Newsletters

The CRS Update Newsletter is a publication to provide local officials and others interested in the CRS with news they can use.

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