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"'"' ~ c C'"'; c.. facilities outside of high hazard areas, reduction of the effects of hazards by taking measures to protect an area, or specific steps to protect indiYi- dual facilities. Additional land use regulations may be imposed by local governments, state or federal agencies. The Regional Director is authorized to decline to fund the repair or rebuilding of a facility in a high hazard area in those cases where the facility would be subject to repetitive heavy damage or destruction, or where there exists a practicable alternative out- side the high hazard area. This provision is mandatory under Floodplain Management regulations for flood hazard mitigation (44 CFR Part 9). A final form of hazard mitigation measures discussed in the regulations relate, to construction practices. These include the standards of the National Flood Insurance Program, as well as applicable state and local standards, which the joint survey team must inventory and evaluate. Based on the recommendations of the applicant, the survey teams, and the Regional Director, the Associate Director of State and local Programs and Support can approve or prescribe mitigation standards. He can approve, as a deyiation from current codes under Section 402, construction practices and standards adopted by an applicant or state which were not in effect at the time of the disaster. He can also prescribe a standard for federally- assisted projects being restored under Section 402 of the Act where it is not willingly adopted by the applicant or state. The Associate Director also has authority to prescribe standards for prospective areawide appli- cability, i.e., not just applicable to disaster damaged or FEMA-funded con- struction. Any future damages or destruction of facilities due to the failure to comply with such prescribed standards for areawide applicability would not be eligible for FEMA grant assistance under Section 402, except when approved in the public interest by the Associate Director. Under any of these alternatives, when a Section 402 project is repaired or built in compliance with an approved or prescribed standard, the costs of complying with the standard are eligible for reimbursement in compliance with the federal/state disaster assistance agreement. Hazard Mitigation Coordinators and Hazard Mitigation Planners are designated at the federal, state and local level. The formation of the federal, state A-4 ;ff.9], . :~...-..~' ...~4!1::. ..~ ",---:;;-' :'-:.,-~~ ._" ..~~ - '"