Hudson Estuary Watershed Resiliency Project

www.hudsonestuaryresilience.net

Updates to the FEMA National

Flood Insurance Program

(NFIP)

Bill Nechamen, CFM

NYS DEC, Floodplain

Management Section

Learn how these updates will affect you, your

home, your business, and your community…

Bill Nechamen, of the NYS Department of

Environmental Conservation Floodplain Management

Section will:

 Provide an overview of the changes to the NFIP;

 Showcase the impacts these changes have on

community participation and landowners;

 Discuss the benefits of the NFIP’s Community

Rating System (CRS) (which works to reduce flood

insurance premiums for enrolled communities whose

efforts go beyond the minimum standards set by the

NFIP).

Presented by:

For more information regarding the Hudson Estuary Watershed Resiliency Project and this seminar series, visit:

www.hudsonestuaryresilience.net

This event is free and open to

the public, but we ask that you

please register in advance.

Certificates of attendance for

municipal training credit will be

provided.

When:

Wednesday

October 1, 2014

10:00 am—12:00 pm

Where:

Haverstraw Town Hall

1 Rosman Road

Garnerville, NY 10923

This seminar is offered as part of CCE’s Hudson Estuary Watershed Resiliency Project (HEWRP) in partnership with the New York State Water Resources Institute at

Cornell University and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Hudson River Estuary Program, with support from the New York State

Environmental Protection