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<br />Learn-Assess <br /> <br />National Flood Insurance Program is unknown., but <br />clearly is in the thousands. <br /> <br />~ Leamine Center Back <br /> <br />Development and Redevelopment Policies <br /> <br />Federal, state, and local governments all have <br />established programs, policies, and directives to <br />avoid inappropriate development and <br />redevelopment of the floodplain. <br /> <br />Federal policies relating to the design and location <br />of services and utilities (roads, bridges, and sewer <br />lines, etc.) in floodprone areas include the National <br />Environmental Policy Act, Executive Order 11988, <br />and the Coastal Barrier Resources Act. All of these <br />either restrict federal participation in development <br />in floodprone areas or require careful review of the <br />impacts on the floodplain of proposed federal or <br />federally supported activities. <br /> <br />Several states have issued executive orders or <br />other directives comparable to the federal ones, <br />and every state now has a statute or executive <br />order to govern construction of state projects, such <br />as prisons and universities, that are exempt from <br />local regulations. All coastal states have policies <br />on development in coastal flood hazard areas. <br />Some states have more stringent flood loss <br />reduction standards for roads and bridges than <br />those of the federal aid system. <br /> <br />In some cases, the only way to preclude future <br />uses incompatible with the flood risk is to <br />permanently evacuate a portion of a floodplain and <br />to obtain full title or easements on its development <br />rights. Although this process (called "acquisition") <br />is expensive, the long-term benefits in reduced <br />floodplain losses, protection of natural resources, <br />and public use of the land, may make it <br />worthwhile. <br /> <br />Page 5 of36 <br />