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Albany floodplain manager outlines FEMA/NFIP changes, draft EIS comment period and local steps
Summary
City floodplain manager Jennifer Cappello briefed council on National Flood Insurance Program participation, a FEMA biological opinion and draft EIS affecting Oregon floodplain policy, and the city’s selected pre-implementation compliance measure (permit-by-permit habitat assessment).
Jennifer Cappello, Albany’s floodplain manager, briefed the council on Sept. 22 about changes to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), the city’s Community Rating System participation, and a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) tied to a 2016 FEMA Biological Opinion that could change local floodplain rules.
Cappello said Albany’s floodplain covers about 1,458 acres and contains approximately 411 buildings. Over the past year the city issued two building permits for new structures within special flood hazard areas and two other development permits (a fence in the floodway and expansion of an existing public lift station off Spring Hill Road). Albany is in the NFIP Community Rating System and holds a class 5…
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