After racking my brain for over a half hour I can here to find out about the new elevation certificates.
I was unable to fill out the certificate that I was able to find at RPLS today, I could not attach any pictures.
Has anyone been able to complete a new certificate?
Are we supposed to continue using the former "expired" certificate?
Thanks,
Dan
Daniel S. McCabe, post: 363927, member: 6 wrote: After racking my brain for over a half hour I can here to find out about the new elevation certificates.
I was unable to fill out the certificate that I was able to find at RPLS today, I could not attach any pictures.
Has anyone been able to complete a new certificate?
Are we supposed to continue using the former "expired" certificate?
Thanks,
Dan
NSPS Technical Mapping Advisory Council representative Wendy Lathrop reports that, after multiple requests, she has received an email message from the division handling the Elevation Certificate (EC). As has been reported, the version that was put out on January 6 had many problematic issues, and Wendy had forwarded a long list of problems, typos, and formatting issues that needed to be addressed. The response to her inquiries was that FEMA was "currently finalizing the fixes to the new EC, including the fillable form," and incorporating many of her comments, but would not be returning the certification section to the front due to font size requirements. Expected release date is "before the end of this month."
She asked how long the old form may still be used, due to problems with the one that came out in January, and if the usual six-month grace period began in January, or will begin with the revision. The last one expired July 31, 2015, and was extended only to November 30, 2015 with a gap until anything further came out in January.
The response was:
FEMA can't endorse using an expired form. "However, the elevation information submitted by the surveyor will be accepted, in whatever format he chooses to submit the elevation and other information, provided all the information is provided and certified." (That is a direct quote from an email Wendy received.)
FEMA will be announcing via various channels when the new EC is available. Although each surveyor cannot be notified individually, it is expected that news of the EC's availability will become widely known rather quickly.
I came here today to ask the same question as Dan. I filled out the 2016 version with all relevant information, and used the old version to attach the photos.
Dan:
HQ is hoping to get the form out mid-April. Once it is fixed and re-released, there will be a transition time like in the past. . If you want to use the new form, in the areas where the file converts to a date/time field, particularly A8 and A9, you can put something behind the numeric and it will stick.
For now the plans are to keep the form in the legal format
Cheers
Lamon
You can fill them in, save them as a PDF, and then add the photos with a program called Snagit. That's how I have been doing it anyway. Just keep the original, editable form in another folder, to make any edits that need to be made as you go. Then you can just print out the saved pages with the photos (5-6) I think, if you need to edit the form. If you have Adobe Pro, it really makes it work out ok. Still way less than ideal, but that is the work around that we have been using till they get their act together.
Im still holding out hope that they will put out a Word version. PDFs were not meant for type of thing.
