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<br />Learn-Assess <br /> <br />insurance, and taking action to mitigate hazards. <br />Passage of the Disaster Relief and Emergency <br />Assistance Act in 1988, which allows federal <br />disaster assistance funds to be spent on mitigation <br />activities and not just to rebuild to the predisaster <br />condition, signaled a new approach to post-flood <br />recovery. <br /> <br />Home Leamine Center Back <br /> <br />Restoring and Preserving the Natural <br />and <br />Cultural Resources of Floodplains <br /> <br />The strategies of preserving and restoring the Water <br />resources, living resources, and cultural resources <br />of floodplains are generally intertwined. The best <br />way to protect these floodplain resources is to <br />avoid development within flood-plains. It has been <br />suggested that stronger federal support of <br />programs to set aside floodplains from <br />development is needed, and that federal policies <br />and procedures actually do not encourage and <br />sometimes even obstruct innovative approaches to <br />preserving natural floodplains. Several federal <br />policies, for example, limit the features of water <br />resources projects to those that have quantifiable <br />economic benefits. Because many natural and <br />cultural resources are difficult to quantifY, or add <br />only incremental benefits, the cumulative effect of <br />eliminating these features may not be taken into <br />account. <br />Limited preservation and restoration can be <br />accomplished indirectly through flood loss <br />reduction activities. Numerous programs at all <br />levels of government establish policies that <br />encourage, but generally do not require, protecting <br />floodplain resources. Natural resources <br />management itself is usu-ally not focused on <br />floodplains but instead addresses a particular <br /> <br />Page 30 of36 <br />