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<br />Chapter IV <br /> <br />.;> <br />C! <br />N, <br />,.... <br />(,C <br />1",) <br /> <br />Table 1 <br />Executive Summary <br /> <br />Recommendations (continued) <br /> <br />x <br /> <br />The Congress, with respect to the Federal Emergency <br />Management Agency, should provide sufficient funding and <br />authority to (a) incorporate the Floodway and its <br />provisions into the National Flood Insurance <br />Program, (b) make the Task Force's recommended <br />Colorado River flood plain management regulation <br />amendments mandatory for entities along the Floodway <br />in order to join or continue to participate in the National <br />Flood Insurance Program, (c) establish and administer <br />a program to provide compensation to persons outside the <br />Floodway who suffered extraordinary economic hardships <br />resulting from impacts of 1983 high Colorado River flows <br />that meet recommended criteria relative to both "economic <br />hardship" and impacts "not reasonably foreseen", and <br />(d) conduct flood hazard area mapping of Indian reservation <br />lands along the lower Colorado River, in consultation with <br />the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian tribes, for <br />the purposes of identifying flood hazards and tribal <br />participation in the National Flood Insurance program. <br /> <br />The Congress should provide sufficient federal funding for <br />the full operation and maintenance of the National Weather <br />Service's Colorado River Flood Warning System, a program <br />vital to the effective management of the Colorado River <br />System. <br /> <br />4 <br />:t <br />