FLOOD00015

• County: Statewide
• Title: A Unified National Program for Floodplain Management
• Date: 3/1/1986
• Prepared For: US
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Historic FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

flood loss potential -- Federal Executive Order 11988,
Floodplain Management -- have been established and
accepted. The conceptual framework of the Unified
Program has become more widely accepted as have
nonstructural loss reduction strategies and tools.
Almost all States have established floodplain management
programs and most have gained experience and are
becoming more effective in achieving program goals.
Almost all flood prone communities have at least
established floodplain regulatory programs and are
beginning to develop program experience. Consequently,
the relative role of the Federal government is decreasing
as States and local governments become more self reliant
in dealing with the problems of flooding. This
assessment, however, also reveals that achievement of
a unified program still requires considerable additional
progress.

Assessment of the institutional framework concludes
that many of the necessary facets of the conceptual
framework exist and have been functioning at all
levels of government, but coordination and effective-
ness needs improvement. Effective implementation of
a unified national program requires of all levels of
government: (1) a review of and renewed commitment to
existing policies that contribute to such a program,
(2) appropriate rearrangement of priorities in exist-
ing organizational and operational policies, and (3)
a continuous coordination effort.

Recommendations. The recommendations which follow are
directed toward recognition, acceptance and implementa-
tion of the conceptual framework at all levels of
government. They should provide the basis for achiev-
ing the institutional coordination necessary to carry
through" A Unified National Program for Floodplain
Management."

B. Federal Level Recommendations

Actions are required to establish coordination at the
national level for floodplain management activities,
specifically for research, data collection, and in-
formation dissemination; to strengthen management
tools; and to support State and local programs. The
Federal level recommendations follow. (Pertinent
pages from the text and Appendix D where the recommenda-
tions from another study are presented are noted in
parentheses. (For example, in recommendation 1 below,
the cross references refer to Chapter VII, pages 5,
6, 7 and 23, and to Appendix D, Strategy A, item 14.)

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