New FEMA Elevation Certificate

I tried but I only have acrobat pro. Looked on the FEMA website as well. They used to have them without instructions and also in word format. 

I haven't had to fill the new one out yet as the last one I completed was just a week before the new form was released.  But, I have opened the new one and just typed in the various fields without any issues using Foxit PDF Reader - https://www.foxit.com/pdf-reader/   You might give it a try and see if that works for you.

I contacted FEMA and asked them to remove the restrictions.  I got this in response:

Good afternoon Jim Frame,  

Thank you for your email out the restrictions you identified.  

Underwriting 
NFIP Standard Operations

It's kind of an ambiguous response, so I don't know if they're going to do anything about it.  🙁

I have livecycle from year 2009

I have revised the number only boxes to text (one of the towns I work in wants 'N/A' everywhere)

I have removed the cover and instruction pages

I have not tested this thoroughly yet (live cycle had warnings about data  etc)

I have removed the digital signature (I use a stamp)

When I try to download from FEMA site,

https://edit.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_form-ff-206-fy-22-152.pdf  

I get this response and nothing more,

If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the document, your PDF
viewer may not be able to display this type of document.

You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader for Windows®, Mac, or Linux® by
visiting http://www.adobe.com/go/reader_download.

For more assistance with Adobe Reader visit http://www.adobe.com/go/acrreader.

That is exactly what I found, too.  Worthless.

@jim-frame 

Do you have the contact information ?

[email protected] is the address that sent the response.

They do this every time.  It is utter BS.

FEMA needs to put out a form that we can fill out, save and print when needed. Make one with just the form, and one with both the instructions and and the form.  THey obviously have the software to do this, it makes zero sense to cripple the users of the form like this.

Seriously, I will fill this sucker out by hand and they can try to read my chicken scratches.  Maybe they would change their tune and help out some if they could read anyones forms.

Apologies, but I am frustrated with stupid things and people lately.

Here is a fillable version of the Elevation Certificate I did for my use. It's not perfect, but it works.

@antcrook

Works great, Thank you.

@toivo1037 

That's what i am doing blue ink all over.

@antcrook very nice.  Thank you!

Try this one i created. 

Just a quick review of those that made alternatives, thanks. Unfortunately, they lack the links for the states, date format and the picture and seal links. Basically, when you pick on the seal square, you get an option to go find a jpg file of your seal to insert, the same with the pictures. I manage to keep this functionality with the last certificate and just extracted the pages needed for the form. The other issue is with the comment section, it doesn't word wrap. 

I just used the FEMA form and it worked fine. I can just printed a PDF of pages 3-9 for the final certificate, print the signature page, scan it back into the finished form. Its no that much different then what I had.

Also, the N/A does not show up in the elevation spots anymore. You can't even put them in manually. 

@antcrook

Thanks a bunch!

You should be able to make those changes yourself using Adobe Acrobat with the "Prepare Form" option

@antcrook 

Update: Thanks. I sorted it out. Didn't realize he had Adobe Pro, so used that to add a Javascript to add the jpg files. Thanks again for the form!!!

I am assisting a surveyor client. Thanks for this form! It works fine on my computer, but having trouble on his with just the photo portion. Does the action in the button use java to add a photo? I have Java, he doesn't. Thanks in advance.

In a FEMA webinar today and someone from FEMA in the chat said they will release a version without instructions, after they fix the problems with the current form. like "Per the instructions, non-applicable elevations in section C.2 are to be filled in with an " N/A" designation; however, on this new form, these entries will only permit numerals and some punctuation."

Please hold your breath.