FLOOD09407

• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Sharing the Challenge: Floodplain Management into the 21st Century
• Date: 6/1/1994
• Prepared For: Administration Floodplain Management Task Force
• Prepared By: Interagency Floodplain Mmanagement Review Committee
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Community File

Reduce repetitive loss outlays by adding a
surcharge to flood insurance policies following
each claim under a policy, providing for
mitigation insurance riders, and supporting
other mitigation activities;

Require those who are behind levees that
provide protection against less than the
standard project flood discharge to purchase
acmarially based insurance;

Increase the waiting period for activation of
flood insurance policies from 5 to 15 days to
avoid purchases when flooding is imminent;

Leverage technology to improve the timeliness,
coverage, and accuracy of flood insurance
maps; support map development by levies on
the policy base and from appropriated funds
because the general taxpayer benefits from this
program; and

Provide for the purchase of mitigation
insurance to cover the cost of elevating.
demolishing, or relocating substantially
damaged buildings.

. To reduce the vulnerability to flood damages
of those in the floodplain, the Administration should:

Give full consideration to all possible
alternatives for vulnerability reduction,
including permanent evacuation of floodprone
areas, flood warning, floodproofing of
structures remaining in the floodplain, creation
of additional namral and artificial storage, and
adequately sized and maintained levees and
other--structures;

Adopt flood damage reduction guidelines based
on a revised Principles and Guidelines which
would give full weight to social, economic, and
environmental values and assure that all
vulnerability reduction alternatives are given
equal consideration; and

Where appropriate, reduce the vulnerability of
population centers and critical infrastructure to

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EXECUfIVE SUMMARY

the standard project flood discharge through
use of floodplain management activities and
programs .

. To ensure that existing federally constructed
water resources projects continue to meet their intended
purposes and are reflective of current national social
and environmental goals, the Administration should
require periodic review of completed projects.

. To provide for efficiency in operations and
for consistency, af standards, the Administration should
assign principal responsibility for repair, rehabilitation,
and construction of levees under federal programs to the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

. To ensure the integrity of levees and the
environmental and hydraulic efficiencies of the
floodplain, states and tribes should ensure proper siting,
construction, and maintenance of non-federal levees.

. To capitalize on the successes in federal,
state, tribal, and local pre-disaster, response, recovery,
and mitigation efforts during and following the 1993
flood and to streamline future efforts, the
Administration should:

Through the NFIP Community Rating System,
encourage states and communities to develop ~
and implement floodplain management and
hazard mitigation plans;

Provide funding for programmatic buyouts of
structures at risk in the floodplain;

Provide states the option of receiving Section
404 Hazard Mitigation Grants as block-grants;

Assign the Director of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency responsibility for
integrating federal disaster response and
recovery operations; and

Encourage federal agencies to use non-disaster
funding to support hazard mitigation activities
on a routine basis.

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