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<br />Foreword <br /> <br />,. <br /> <br />The Office of Federal Insurance and Hazard Mitigation [formerly the <br />Federal Insurance Administration (FIA) a component of the <br />Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)] is charged <br />to promote the public welfare by providing insurance protection <br />against the perils of flood loss and to guide the development of <br />sound flood plain management by local communities. To obtain <br />assistance in formulating and implementing the most effective FIA <br />programs possible for reducing the tremendous annual losses of <br />properly resulting from floods, HUD entered into a contract with the <br />National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The Building Research <br />Advisory Board (BRAB), under the auspices of the National <br />Research Council's Commission on Sociotechnical Systems and <br />Division of Earth Sciences, was charged with administration of the <br />effort to be conducted by the Science and Engineering Committee <br />on Prevention and Mitigation of Flood Losses and various panels of <br />that Committee. <br /> <br />A report was prepared by the Panel on Criteria for Repair and <br />Rehabilitation of Properties Damaged by Floods in response to one <br />specific problem posed by the FIA - how best to approach the <br />problem of establishing recommendations for repairing and <br />rehabilitating properties destroyed or damaged by flood. That <br />report was reviewed by representatives of the Commission on <br />Sociotechnical Systems and the Division of Earth Sciences, as well <br />as by the Board, and was approved for transmittal to HUD. <br /> <br />The NAHB Research Foundation, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, a <br />wholly owned subsidiary of the National Association of Home <br />Builders, Washington, D.C., was commissioned by the FIA to write <br />the report in a form suitable for distribution to the home owner. That <br />commission was carried out by Dr. Charles M. Anderson, P.E. <br /> <br />v <br />