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<br />FOREWORD <br /> <br />( <br /> <br />Executive Order 11296, issued in August 1966, expressed the concern <br />of the Federal Government over mounting flood losses in the United States. <br />It recognized that in order to be fully effective, programs for flood <br />prevention or control must be combined with other management elements <br />in a unified national program of floodplain management. <br /> <br />; <br /> <br />In order to provide equable treatment of flood hazard problems among <br />Federal agencies, several Federal agencies established a work group <br />to develop uniform guidelines and criteria for implementation of the <br />Executive Order. The work group developed proposed guidelines and <br />suggested that the Office of Management and Budget (then Bureau of <br />the Budget) issue the guidelines to the affected Federal agencies. <br /> <br />While strongly endorsing issuance of the guidelines, the Office of <br />Management and Budget stated that a more detailed review and <br />coordination of the technical aspects of the guidelines was needed. <br />The Water Resources Council, was requested by the Office of Management <br />and Budget to review, revise where appropriate, and issue the guidelines <br />developed by the work group. <br /> <br />The guidelines were reviewed and revised by the Council and published <br />as "Proposed Flood Hazard Evaluation Guidelines", for Federal Executive <br />Agencies in September 1969. Copies of the Guidelines were sent to <br />75 Federal Executive Agencies for testing through agency use. A <br />report to the Council on the results of the-tests was requested. The <br />Guidelines were also sent to State agencies and to the Governors of the <br />States through the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. <br />Useful comments were received from about 20 Federal agencies and <br />15 States during 1970. <br /> <br />Final revision of the Guidelines was subsequently begun and was <br />influenced not only by the Federal and State comments received, but <br />also by related work being simultaneously developed under the Water <br />Resources Council auspices. The related work included "Regulation of <br />Flood Hazard Areas to Reduce Flood Losses"--a 2 volume work published <br />by the WRC in 1971-1972, and "A Unified National Program of Floodplain <br />Management" expected to be published late in 1972. <br /> <br />9(1 <br /><0 <br /> <br />i <br />