CERTIFIED FLOODPLAIN MANAGER QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Dam breach inundation area - ✔✔The area flooded by a dam failure
✔✔Damage Survey Report - ✔✔A form completed by disaster assistance staff to
determine the repair and reconstruction needs of public and private nonprofit facilities
✔✔Datum - ✔✔A common vertical elevation reference point, usually in relation to sea
level
✔✔Detailed Studies - ✔✔Flood hazard mapping studies that are done using hydrologic
and hydraulic methods that produce base flood elevations, floodways, and other
pertinent flood data
✔✔Development - ✔✔Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate,
including but not limited to buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling,
grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations or storage of equipment and materials.
✔✔Discharge - ✔✔The amount of water that passes a point in a given period of time.
Rate of discharge is usually measured in cubic feet per second (cfs)
✔✔DSR - ✔✔Damage survey report
✔✔Emergency Operations Center (EOC) - ✔✔A facility that houses communications
equipment that is used to coordinate the response to a disaster or emergency
✔✔Eminent Domain - ✔✔Governmental power to acquire a property without the
owner's consent
✔✔Enabling Legislation - ✔✔State laws that authorize communities to perform
governmental activities, such as enacting and enforcing regulations
, ✔✔Encroachment Review - ✔✔An analysis to determine if a project will increase flood
heights or cause increased flooding downstream
✔✔EO 11988 - ✔✔Executive Order 11988 Floodplain Management. A directive by the
President that sets procedures Federal agencies must follow before they take or fund
an action in the floodplain
✔✔FBFM - ✔✔Flood Boundary Floodway Map. An official map of a community, on
which FEMA has delineated the regulatory floodway. Recent FISs show the floodway on
the FIRM and do not include an FBFM
✔✔FEMA - ✔✔Federal Emergency Management Agency., Most of the NFIP field work
and community coordination are done by the 10 FEMA Regional Offices
✔✔FHBM - ✔✔Flood Hazard Boundary Map. An official map of a community published
by FEMA that delineates the approximate boundary of the floodplain. An FHBM is
generally the initial map provided the community and is eventually superceded by a
FIRM
✔✔Federal Insurance Administration (FIA) - ✔✔was the part of FEMA that administered
the NFIP. This is now the responsibility of FEMAs Mitigation Division
✔✔Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) - ✔✔An official map of a community, on which
FEMA has delineated both the SFHAs and the risk premium zones applicable to the
community
✔✔Flood - ✔✔A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of
normally dry land areas
✔✔Flood Fringe - ✔✔The portion of the floodplain lying outside the floodway
✔✔Flood Hazard Mitigation - ✔✔All actions that can be taken to reduce property
damage and the threat to life and public health from flooding
✔✔Flood Insurance Study - ✔✔A report published by FEMA for a community issued
along with the community's FIRM. The study contains such background data as the
base flood discharges and water surface elevations that were used to prepare the FIRM
✔✔Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) - ✔✔A grant program that supports plans and
projects for mitigating losses to insured buildings funded by the NFIP.
✔✔Flood Record - ✔✔The highest known flood level for the area, as recorded in
historical documents
AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Dam breach inundation area - ✔✔The area flooded by a dam failure
✔✔Damage Survey Report - ✔✔A form completed by disaster assistance staff to
determine the repair and reconstruction needs of public and private nonprofit facilities
✔✔Datum - ✔✔A common vertical elevation reference point, usually in relation to sea
level
✔✔Detailed Studies - ✔✔Flood hazard mapping studies that are done using hydrologic
and hydraulic methods that produce base flood elevations, floodways, and other
pertinent flood data
✔✔Development - ✔✔Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate,
including but not limited to buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling,
grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations or storage of equipment and materials.
✔✔Discharge - ✔✔The amount of water that passes a point in a given period of time.
Rate of discharge is usually measured in cubic feet per second (cfs)
✔✔DSR - ✔✔Damage survey report
✔✔Emergency Operations Center (EOC) - ✔✔A facility that houses communications
equipment that is used to coordinate the response to a disaster or emergency
✔✔Eminent Domain - ✔✔Governmental power to acquire a property without the
owner's consent
✔✔Enabling Legislation - ✔✔State laws that authorize communities to perform
governmental activities, such as enacting and enforcing regulations
, ✔✔Encroachment Review - ✔✔An analysis to determine if a project will increase flood
heights or cause increased flooding downstream
✔✔EO 11988 - ✔✔Executive Order 11988 Floodplain Management. A directive by the
President that sets procedures Federal agencies must follow before they take or fund
an action in the floodplain
✔✔FBFM - ✔✔Flood Boundary Floodway Map. An official map of a community, on
which FEMA has delineated the regulatory floodway. Recent FISs show the floodway on
the FIRM and do not include an FBFM
✔✔FEMA - ✔✔Federal Emergency Management Agency., Most of the NFIP field work
and community coordination are done by the 10 FEMA Regional Offices
✔✔FHBM - ✔✔Flood Hazard Boundary Map. An official map of a community published
by FEMA that delineates the approximate boundary of the floodplain. An FHBM is
generally the initial map provided the community and is eventually superceded by a
FIRM
✔✔Federal Insurance Administration (FIA) - ✔✔was the part of FEMA that administered
the NFIP. This is now the responsibility of FEMAs Mitigation Division
✔✔Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) - ✔✔An official map of a community, on which
FEMA has delineated both the SFHAs and the risk premium zones applicable to the
community
✔✔Flood - ✔✔A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of
normally dry land areas
✔✔Flood Fringe - ✔✔The portion of the floodplain lying outside the floodway
✔✔Flood Hazard Mitigation - ✔✔All actions that can be taken to reduce property
damage and the threat to life and public health from flooding
✔✔Flood Insurance Study - ✔✔A report published by FEMA for a community issued
along with the community's FIRM. The study contains such background data as the
base flood discharges and water surface elevations that were used to prepare the FIRM
✔✔Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) - ✔✔A grant program that supports plans and
projects for mitigating losses to insured buildings funded by the NFIP.
✔✔Flood Record - ✔✔The highest known flood level for the area, as recorded in
historical documents
