Dear Tribal Leader Letter
Framing Paper

Thursday, October 10 at 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Eastern
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Wednesday, October 16 at 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Eastern
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FEMA will host virtual Tribal consultations with Tribal Nations to discuss suggested approaches for a redesigned CRS.

The purpose of the redesign is to enhance the CRS’s effectiveness, promote resilience, and mitigate the financial impacts of flooding on communities. CRS Redesign is a multi-year effort intended to take a comprehensive look at the CRS program, exploring both incremental improvements and bold shifts in approach.

FEMA is exploring the future of the CRS with a focus on ways the agency can improve the CRS to:

• Incentivize communities to take measurable actions and make sustained progress that reduces current and future flood risk;
• Embed equity as a foundation of the Community Rating System program;
• Incentivize communities to promote property owners to purchase flood insurance to reduce their financial exposure to flood risk; and
• Deliver a community participant-centered and modernized program.

The CRS is a voluntary incentive program that recognizes and encourages floodplain management practices that exceed the minimum requirements in the NFIP. The agency is evaluating the CRS’s potential to provide ongoing support for state, local, tribal, and territorial governments’ goals and needs around floodplain management.