During late 2023, FEMA created within the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) its new National Violations Tracker (NVT) by consolidating four separate internal databases of structures within Special Flood Hazard Areas suspected of having floodplain violations. Those separate databases were:
Reference: ASFPM's NVT Fact Sheet
Contact your regional FEMA NFIP representative. You'll need to have or execute a formal Information Sharing Access Agreement (ISAA). If you're already receiving your confidential Repetitive Loss data, you likely already have an ISAA in place. One of the up to five people listed on that agreement will need to make the request.
Communities in receipt of the NVT data are provided with a simple spreadsheet; see the Quick Guide for an example. Only State Floodplain Administrators have direct access to the NVT database.
Access to the NVT data is highly restricted with strict controls regarding its usage and disclosures. Those with authorized access may only discuss the data with the property owners, and then only after the owners have been positively identified.
It's not always clear who qualifies as an owner - trusts, LLC, corporations, condo associations etc. Best to consult with your legal department should there be the slightest question regarding property ownership.
Property owners may want you do discuss their NVT details with an attorney, contractor, or others. Express written permission from the owner is required before any such discussions occur. The burden of confidential rests entirely with the government; property owners are free to discuss with anyone they wish.
Unauthorized or inappropriate release of NVT data is a crime under the federal Privacy Act of 1974 and the community will likely lose all future access to their data. It is not subject to release under any state public information disclosure laws.
It would be, were it not a randomly generated image created using artificial intelligence.
As yet, there isn't a specified format for reporting back to FEMA regarding changes to NVT listings. Best to contact your regional representative at FEMA for guidance. To whom such submissions should be made is a bit murky. Present guidance says it can be reported to either your FEMA region or State Floodplain Coordinator. Submitting to one and not the other could prove problematic, so it's probably best to report to both.
No, they are independent, but in some ways related. The NVT lists supposed floodplain violations at a national level. Yet, not all NFIP communities participate in the CRS program. If a perceived 'violation' is added to the NVT and that community participates in the CRS program, then that listing would also be listed on the CRS Exclusion List, preventing that policy holder from receiving any CRS discount.
When an NVT listed structure located within a CRS community has been mitigated, updating to both lists is necessary before the CRS discount can be restored; something which occurs internally within FEMA.