Disaster Relief Act Amendments of 1982: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Water Resources of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session, August 13 and 17, 1982 |
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100-YEAR FLOOD Administration amendments BIRKLE CITY communities Congress CONTRACT(S coordination Corps of Engineers cost sharing cost-sharing COUNTY DATE OF FDAA DECLARATION STATE TYPE DISASTER FUNDING LIST Disaster Relief Act DISASTERS ONLY ACTIONS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY FDAA REG DECLARATION FDAA REGION Federal agencies FEDERAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT Federal Government FEDERAL INSURANCE ADMINISTRATION FEMA FLASH FLOODING flood damage FLOOD DATE flood hazard flood insurance program flood plain flood plain management flood problems flood protection FLOODING OPEN floodproofing FUNDING LIST MAJOR HAMMERSCHMIDT hazard mitigation Hurricane Hurricane David land LIST MAJOR DISASTERS MANAGING FLOOD LOSSES million national flood insurance OPEN FLOODING percent planning PROGRAM FOR MANAGING PUBLIC ASSISTANCE Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Trench Recommendation REMAINING REQUIREMENT TOTAL responsibility SANTA CRUZ COUNTY SECTION SEVERE STORMS OPEN Small Business Administration STORMS & FLOODING STORMS & OPEN Street Washington THOMAS THRU TORNADOES TYPE DATE CLOSED
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Page 262 - NATIONAL GOVERNORS' ASSOCIATION Hall of the States • 444 North Capitol Street • Washington. DC 20001-1512 • (202) 624-5300 Good morning, Mr. Chairman and distinguished members of the committee. I am Ray Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors
Page 69 - Major disaster" means any hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high water, wind-driven water, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudslide, snowstorm, drought, fire, explosion, or other catastrophe in any part of the United States which, in the determination of the President, causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant major disaster assistance under...
Page 28 - Act defines an emergency as any occasion or instance for which, in the determination of the President, federal assistance is needed to supplement state and local efforts and capabilities to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in any part of the United States.
Page 99 - A flood insurance program is a tool that should be used expertly or not at all. Correctly applied, it could promote wise use of flood plains. Incorrectly applied, it could exacerbate the whole problem offload losses.
Page 93 - show that some flood plain encroachment is undertaken in ignorance of the hazard, that some occurs in anticipation of further federal protection, and that some takes place because it is profitable for private owners even though it imposes heavy burdens on society."2 In earlier years most flood control projects were justified on the basis of protecting existing developments.
Page 70 - Act, above and beyond emergency services by the Federal Government, to supplement the efforts and available resources of States, local governments, and disaster relief organizations in alleviating the damage, loss, hardship, or suffering caused thereby.
Page 94 - ... projected development. As a consequence, benefits are calculated on the basis of the absolute value of the site as a location for the potential development, rather than its differential value compared to the next best alternative. This tends to accelerate still further the "cycle of losses, partial protection, further induced (though sub-marginal) development, and more unnecessary losses." * As the Task Force on Federal Flood Control Policy pointed out, an effective approach to national flood...
Page 91 - ... billion), that after a while it began to run out of property to protect. Whereupon, very quietly, the Corps' aims began to change. So quietly, in fact, that the changeover wasn't noticed until 1966, when a presidential task force investigated US flood-control policy and came to this startled conclusion: "The major purpose of engineering projects is changing from the protection of established property to the underwriting of new development.
Page 260 - National Governor's Association Hall of the States 444 North Capitol Street Washington, DC 20001 Dear...
Page 85 - Since 1936 this nation has acknowledged the seriousness of the flood damage problem. In that year we inaugurated a national flood protection policy, and since then the Federal investment in flood protection and prevention through the Corps of Engineers and the Soil Conservation Service and other agencies has amounted to more than $8 billion.