FLOOD01390

• County: Statewide
• Title: Standard Operating Procedures Manual for Interagency Hazard Mitigation Teams
• Date: 3/1/1984
• Prepared For: US
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Historic FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

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INTRODUCTION

The Federal Emergency Management Agency Region VIII Disaster

Assistance Programs (DAP) Division's approach to flood hazard

mitigation has focused on the development of a Hazard Mitigation

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.......that functions in the Regional Office and in a disaster

situation on the same level as th~well-established Individual
Assistance and Public Assistance~ A Regional flood
hazard mitigation program has been developed as a result of the

requirements of the July 10, 1980 Office of Management and Budget

Directive for Nonstructural Damage Reduction Measures as Applied

to Common Flood Disaster Plannin9 and Post-Flood Recovery

Practices, and the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (PL 93-288),

particul arly Section 201(b}, Federal and State Disaster

Preparedness Programs and Section 406, Minimum Standards for
Public and Private Structures.

The Interagency Hazard Mitigation Team (hereinafter called the

Team) process and the Interagency Hazard Mitigation Report

(hereinafter call the Report) are the mechanisms utilized to

develop recommendations, initiate actions, monitor progress and

document results or reasons for non-action. Active local and

State participation in the Team process and in the development of

the Report has been encouraged and solicited, This active

participation is necessary due to the State and local orientation

of many of the recommendations and to assure that the

recommendations are in accord with existing State and local