NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM
ELEVATION CERTIFICATE
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INSTRUCTIONS
NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM
ELEVATION CERTIFICATE
PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT NOTICE
Public reporting burden for the Elevation Certificate is estimated to average 3.5 hours per response. Burden means the
time, effort, or financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide information to
the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). You are not required to respond to the collection of information
unless a valid OMB control number is displayed in the upper right corner of the form. You may send comments regarding
the accuracy of the burden estimate and any suggestions for reducing the burden to: U.S. Department of Homeland
Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Mitigation Division, 500 C Street SW, Washington DC 20472,
Paperwork Reduction Project (1660-0008). NOTE: Do not send your completed form to this address. To obtain or
retain benefits under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), you must respond to this collection of information.
PURPOSE OF THE ELEVATION CERTIFICATE
The Elevation Certificate is an important administrative tool of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). It is to be
used to provide elevation information necessary to ensure compliance with community floodplain management
ordinances, to determine the proper insurance premium rate, and to support a request for a Letter of Map Amendment
(LOMA) or Letter of Map Revision based on fill (LOMR-F).
The Elevation Certificate is required in order to properly rate post-FIRM buildings, which are buildings constructed after
publication of the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), located in flood insurance Zones A1-A30, AE, AH, A (with BFE),
VE, V1-V30, V (with BFE), AR, AR/A, AR/AE, AR/A1-A30, AR/AH, and AR/AO. The Elevation Certificate is not
required for pre-FIRM buildings unless the building is being rated under the op