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will not maintain their own inventories because of budgetary, personnel, and other problems. However, if an orderly transfer or phase-out (over perhaps 3 to 5 years) of the federal inventory is arranged, states would have time to plan and budget for maintaining thei own inventories. The alternative would be to provide each state a printout of the ~urrent inventory, whi~h could be updated when and if the state so decided. The federal government, and particularly FEMA and its regional offices, would benefit from a national inventory kept current. Up-to-date state inventories would help federal agencies identify special flood hazard areas below dams, prepare flood insurance study reports, site federal facilities located below dams and determine compliance with federal regulations such as those of the National Environmental Policy Act. 5.1.2 Conclusions The committee did not reach unanimous agreement on continued federal support of dam inventory activities. A minority view was that the federal government should do no more than furnish each state a copy of the curren inventory. The majority, however, concluded that the national inventory should be maintained by FEMA for a specified period of time and then phased out. All states would b advised that they would have this period in which to take responsibility for their own inventories if they wished. Together with other ICODS agencies, FEMA shoul use the phase-out period to develop a clear policy on issues pertinent to nonfederal dam safety. Specifically, FEMA should take the following steps: . Take the lead and share the financial responsibility with the states for transferring the Corps. inventory program to the states . Assist and guide, when requested, in setting up state-run inventory programs that- are consisten with the Corps' inventory file system but fit the needs of individual states . Investigste the feasibility of updating the fil during the phase-out period with data on new -25-