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  2. Flood opening - Wikipedia

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    The FEMA (and, thus, NFIP) requirements for non-engineered openings are similar to requirements from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Unlike the ASCE, FEMA requires the placement of openings such that the bottom of each opening is no more than one foot above the higher of the adjacent ground level, or the interior foundation slab height ...

  3. Federal Emergency Management Agency - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders on April 1, 1979. [1]

  4. Flood insurance rate map - Wikipedia

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    In 2004, FEMA began a project to update and digitize the flood plain maps at a yearly cost of $200 million. The new maps usually take around 18 months to go from a preliminary release to the final product. During that time period FEMA works with local communities to determine the final maps. [3]

  5. FEMA teams working with families who lost homes in deadly Los ...

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    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is working with families who lost their homes in the deadly Los Angeles wildfires, the agency’s administrator said. FEMA Administrator Deanne ...

  6. National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 - Wikipedia

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    The law "ordered FEMA to stop subsidizing flood insurance for second homes and businesses, and for properties that had been swamped multiple times." [7] These changes were to occur gradually over the course of five years. FEMA was also instructed to do a study on the affordability of this process, a study which it has failed to complete. [7]

  7. FEMA centers open amid anxiety over recovery from the ... - AOL

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    The FEMA offices are at the UCLA Research Park West, 10850 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, and at the Pasadena City College Community Education Center, 3035 East Foothill Blvd., Pasadena. Both ...

  8. North Carolina offering to buy homes affected by Helene ...

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    North Carolina is offering to buy the homes of Hurricane Helene survivors who qualify for a FEMA-funded special program as one option to move forward on the path to recovery.

  9. Real estate license - Wikipedia

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    A real estate license is an authorization issued by a government body to give agents and brokers the legal authority to represent a home seller or buyer in a real estate transaction. Real estate agents and real estate brokers are required to be licensed when conducting real estate transactions in the United States and in a small number of other ...