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<br />Learn-Assess <br /> <br />Most redevelopment relating to flood loss <br />reduction occurs after one or more major floods. <br />Usually a control structure is built to protect what <br />development remains, and a temporary moratorium <br />is imposed to allow evaluation and planning. <br />Unfortunately, legislative and regulatory <br />requirements often encourage a quick return to the <br />preflood status quo, wasting opportunities to <br />mitigate and revitalize the area. <br /> <br />Home Learnine Center Back <br /> <br />Disaster Preparedness <br /> <br />Disaster preparedness encompasses plans for <br />mitigation, warning, and emergency operations; <br />training; public information activities; exercises to <br />test disaster preparedness plans; readiness <br />evaluations; research; review and coordination of <br />disaster preparedness plans and programs; and <br />post-disaster evaluations. Individual preparedness <br />is important but severely underutilized. <br />Preparedness plans often are developed in concert <br />with flood forecast, warning, and emergency plans. <br />There are several federal programs for disaster <br />preparedness, and every state has an integrated <br />emergency management plan and an agency <br />responsible for preparing for floods. Each Gulf and <br />Atlantic coast state has a hurricane preparedness <br />plan completed or underway. Many localities also <br />have emergency management plans, but relatively <br />few have detailed plans specifically for floods, and <br />even fewer have plans for mitigation after a flood. <br />This is probably due to lack of expertise and <br />funding to develop such plans, the hope that the <br />flood problems will be taken care of through some <br />structural measures, and the expectation of <br />receiving federal disaster assistance when the flood <br />does occur. <br /> <br />Home Learnine Center Back <br /> <br />Page 6 of36 <br />