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<br />1. INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />1.1 PURPOSE <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />In October 1981, the Federal Emergency Management <br />Agency (FEMA) asked the National Research Council (NRC) <br />to undertake a study of technical and policy issues <br />related to the safety of nonfederal dams. FEMA asked <br />the NRC to identify impediments to state-run programs <br />for dam safety, to suggest federal actions to remove or <br />mitigate those impediments, and to define how the U.S. <br />government could help make such nonfederal dama safer. <br /> <br />FEMA's request followed completion of a four-year <br />U.S. Army Corps of Engineers program of inspecting <br />nonfederal dams, conducted under authority of the <br />National Dam Inspection Act (Public Law 92-367) of <br />1972. Since the completion of the Corps' inspection <br />program, in 1981"no agency of the U.S. government has <br />had authorized funds for monitoring or encouraging stat <br />. programs to supervise subsequent inspections and <br />investig~tions, or to ensure that deficiencies are <br />co,rrected. <br /> <br />In response to .FEMA's request, the NRC created a <br />Committee on the Safety of Nonfederal Dams to review a~ <br />discuss'the involved issues. This report presents the <br />results of the committee's effort. <br /> <br />1.2 SCOPE <br /> <br />FEMA and the NRC agreed that the committee's study <br />would be a two-phase effort. The first phase was to <br />consider the proper role of the U.S. government <br />regarding the safety of nonfederal dams. It was an <br />opportunity for the technical community to comment on <br /> <br />-6- <br />