Office of the Flood Commission
Related Programs
FEMA – Federal Emergency Management Agency
NFIP – National Flood Insurance Program
The NFIP is a Federal program enabling property owners in participating communities to purchase insurance protection against losses from flooding. Participation in the NFIP is based on an agreement between local communities and the Federal Government that states if a community will adopt and enforce a floodplain management ordinance to reduce future flood risks to new construction in Special Flood Hazard Areas, the Federal Government will make flood insurance available within the community as a financial protection against flood losses.
CRS – Community Rating System
The National Flood Insurance Program's (NFIP) Community Rating System (CRS) was implemented in 1990 as a program for recognizing and encouraging community floodplain management activities that exceed the minimum NFIP standards. The objective of the CRS program is to reward communities that are doing more than meeting the minimum National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) requirements to help their citizens prevent or reduce flood losses. Since Doña Ana County is a CRS Class 9, effective October 1, 2003, property owners who live in the unincorporated areas are entitled to receive a five percent (5%) reduction in FEMA backed flood insurance.
CTP – Cooperating Technical Partners Program.
This is a federal program where local floodplain management agencies team up with FEMA to update and maintain accurate flood insurance rate maps. The key objective of this program is to increase local involvement in, and ownership of, the flood mapping process.
Related Links
- BLM – Bureau of Land Management: Main Home page
- BLM Las Cruces – Bureau of Land Management: Las Cruces Office
- CLC – City of Las Cruces Home page
- EBID – Elephant Butte Irrigation District
- FEMA – Federal Emergency Management Agency
- FIRM MAPS
- NMFMA – New Mexico Floodplain Managers Association
- NMDPS – New Mexico Department of Public Safety
- NPDES – National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
- NRCS – Natural Resources Conservation Service
- OSE – Office of the State Engineer
- DHSEM – The New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
