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Podcast: American Shoreline Podcast Network
Episode: A Closeup Look at the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard | Capitol Beach
Description: On The Capitol Beach, Derek Brockbank looks at the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard (FFRMS) with Chad Berginnis from the Association of State Flood Plain Managers (ASFPM) and Joel Scata with NRDC. The FFRMS was an Obama-era Executive Order (EO 13690) that required any infrastructure project that received federal flooding to demonstrate some level of flood risk preparedness, with a focus on future flooding and sea level rise. This would have meant significant changes to how coastal projects are planned and/or funded, but it was revoked by the Trump administration before it could be implemented. However, the FFRMS was reins...