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<br />will require the accumulation and categorization of the data itself, design of a database, and <br />provision for its accessibility by all levels of govemment and the private sector, <br /> <br />Data for Local Mitigation Plans <br /> <br />Most communities do not have sufficient data to develop adequate mitigation plans today. Neither <br />National Flood Insurance Program claims information nor data on damaged properties is circulated <br />regularly or provided to appropriate state and local personnel quickly after a flood disaster. This <br />makes it all too easy to overlook mitigation opportunities for the damaged structures just at the time <br />when property owners are most open to such possibilities, 1bis information is equally valuable in the <br />pre-disaster setting for mitigation and sustainable planning for Project Impact communities, <br /> <br />· Information on damaged structures gathered by federal agencies, their contractors, and others <br />should be made easily accessible to state and local personnel after a disaster. <br /> <br />· Information on disaster assistance, damage to community infrastructure, flood-related repair <br />costs, and mitigation expenditures would all be useful in helping localities plan, <br /> <br />· National Flood Insurance Program claims information must be shared with National Flood <br />Insurance Program State Coordinators so they can effectively assist localities in mitigation, The <br />location ofthe insured property (not the premium notice mailing address) should be provided in <br />digitized form, along with the amounts of claims payments, value of the property, etc., so that <br />plans for mitigation can be formulated before the owner repairs the property. <br /> <br />· New and additional methods for estimating flood damage, based on previous inventories of <br />buildings and infrastructure and on flood depths and velocities, should be pursued. The National <br />Institute of Building Sciences and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are now <br />developing such a flood loss estimation model. <br /> <br />Number of At-risk Structures <br /> <br />The number of structures in the flood hazard areas of the nation is not known, An accurate count of <br />at-risk structures is a necessary part of developing a national strategy for reducing or insuring flood <br />losses through the National Flood Insurance Program and through taxpayer-funded programs, such <br />as the Disaster Relief Act and Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, Such an undertaking could be <br />implemented through the Community Assistance Program, by using consultants, or other measures, <br /> <br />· Accurate data on the number of floodprone structures throughout the nation must be collected <br />and made readily available, <br /> <br />· Accurate data on repetitive loss structures should be made available, including the risk and reason <br />for flooding of each structure, <br /> <br />· Localities could be required to identifY the number and risk of structures within their jurisdictions <br />as part of a local mitigation plan done under the Flood Mitigation Assistance Program, the Hazard <br />Mitigation Grant Program, or the Community Rating System, with Federal Emergency <br />Management Agency-required IO-year updates to show community progress in reducing flood <br />risk. Consideration should be given to how the Flood Insurance Study process might assist in this <br /> <br />Association of State Floodplain Managers <br /> <br />-22- <br /> <br />National Flood Programs in Review 2000 <br />