Notice2025-20059
Notice of Adjustment of Public Assistance Thresholds for Floodplain Management and Wetlands Protection Review Process
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Published
November 18, 2025
Issuing agencies
Homeland Security DepartmentFederal Emergency Management Agency
Abstract
FEMA gives notice that dollar value thresholds that provide exemption from or abbreviation of the floodplain management and wetlands protection process for certain Public Assistance projects associated with disasters with an incident start date on or after October 1, 2025, will increase.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 220 (Tuesday, November 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 51771]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-20059]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
[Docket ID FEMA-2025-0179]
Notice of Adjustment of Public Assistance Thresholds for
Floodplain Management and Wetlands Protection Review Process
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: FEMA gives notice that dollar value thresholds that provide
exemption from or abbreviation of the floodplain management and
wetlands protection process for certain Public Assistance projects
associated with disasters with an incident start date on or after
October 1, 2025, will increase.
DATES: These adjustments apply to major disasters with an incident
start date on or after October 1, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Portia Ross, Office of Environmental
Planning and Historic Preservation, Federal Emergency Management
Agency, 500 C Street SW, Washington, DC 20472, (202) 212-5929.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FEMA regulation 44 CFR 9.5 includes three
different dollar value thresholds that provide exemption from or
abbreviation of the 8-step floodplain management and wetlands
protection process (8-step process) for certain FEMA projects funded
through the Public Assistance program. The regulations provide that the
dollar value amounts ``will be adjusted annually to reflect changes in
the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers published by the
Department of Labor.''
For all disasters with an incident start date on or after October
1, 2025, FEMA gives notice of the following adjustments to these
thresholds:
<bullet> The threshold at 44 CFR 9.5(c)(9) exempting actions from
the 8-step process will be increased to $19,000;
<bullet> The thresholds at 44 CFR 9.5(d) identifying actions that
only need to apply steps 1, 4, 5, and 8 are increased to $19,000 and
$96,000;
<bullet> The threshold at 44 CFR 9.5(e)(2)(i) identifying the
maximum dollar value for actions that only need to apply steps 1, 2, 4,
5, and 8 is increased to $385,000.
FEMA bases these adjustments on an increase in the Consumer Price
Index for All Urban Consumers of 2.7% for the 12-month period that
ended in June 2025 and 3% for the 12-month period that ended in June
2024, for a total of 5.78%. This adjustment accounts for two years of
inflation because the current values were set based on inflation
through June 2023. The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S.
Department of Labor released the information on July 15, 2025, and July
11, 2024. Each threshold value is rounded to the nearest $1,000.
Donna Defrancesco,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Environmental Planning and Historic
Preservation, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. 2025-20059 Filed 11-17-25; 8:45 am]
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