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<br />Ievt:t:s also prt:vcnted damages of ahout $5.6 hillion at <br />Kallsas City, <br /> <br />Conclusion: Damages from the /993 flood <br />were reduced significantly through use of <br />nonstructural and structural measures. <br /> <br />RESPONSE AND RECOVERY COSTS <br /> <br />By the t:nd of the flood. nillt: statt: disas{t:r declaratiolls <br />included more than 525 coumies. Current t:stimated <br />federal response and recovery costs include $4.2 hill ion <br />in direct federal expenditures. $1.3 hillion in paymt:lHs <br />fnllll federal insurance progranls. alld l1l(lre titan $621 <br />million in federal loans to individuals. husinesses. and <br />cllllununities. <br /> <br />A revkw of the types and a1ll0uIHS of federal response <br />and n:covery costS by state illustrate again the <br />differenct:s in types of damages among the nine stares. <br /> <br />III the upper basin states of Minnesota. Nebraska, Nonh <br />Dakota. amI South Dakota and ill Wisconsin and <br />nonhern Iowa. the losses were primarily to agriculture. <br />much of it in upland areas. Along (he main stems of <br />rhe Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their major <br />trihutaries in Missouri. Illinois. alld central Iowa. <br />signith;ant losses occurred in agriL:ulturt: as a n:suh of <br />houomlaml flooding. hut urhan areas also re(;orded <br />L1alllages. <br /> <br />Federal Expenditures <br /> <br />Federal expenditures fepreselll disa:m:r response alllI <br />rt:covt:ry costs horne hy tilt: klkral government. <br />Among these afe disaster assistance payments to <br />individuals and fanners. costs to repair levees and other <br />infrastructure, costs to providc health and social <br /> <br />22 <br /> <br />THE FLOOD OF 1993 <br /> <br /> <br />servit..:es: and L:osts assm:iated with hazard mitigation. <br />housing. and L:olHmunity development. A summary of <br />federal expenditures for the Midwest nood is included <br />ill Tahle 1,4, <br /> <br />Crop disaster payments. Disaster payments are made <br />for production and quality lnsses of most conunercially- <br />grown crops when losses are caused by damaging <br />weather ami rdated L:tlllditiol\s. Production losses <br />related w prevelHed planting and low yield are eligible <br />for t.:ompensatioll Tile Agricultural Stabilization and <br />Conservation Service of USDA L:an authorize crop ~ <br />disaster paymelHs without a Presidential Disaster <br />Declaration. Panicipatj(1I1 in prit.:e-suppoTt programs <br />does not affeu eligihility or paymem levels. Producers <br />with (;fOp insurance qualify if losses are greater than 35 <br />perceIH of expected prouuuiou: and those. without crop <br />insurance qualify if losses art: grt:atef than 40 percent. <br />For most (;fOpS grown ill tht: 9-state region. payments <br />are calculated by uetennilling lhe eligible amount of <br />loss and multiplying il hy 65 perct:IlL As a general rule <br />{If thumb. fanners call expcct disastcr payments lo <br />cover 40 percelH of expeuetl t.:ash receipts....l For 1993. <br />yields less than 9 hushels all acre of corn or 4 bushels <br />per a(;ft of wheat L:llUlHed as lOtal losses for calculation <br />of disaster paymtlHs. f-igure 1.8 shows the location of <br />(;fOp disaster paymeiHs ill tilt: 9-state region. More than <br />70 percelU ($1.02 hill ion) went to the prai rit: pothole <br />