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“Federal agencies should have to reduce flood losses, protect public safety and health, and preserve or restore the natural benefits of floodplains when they carry out covered actions.”
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“Federal agencies should write or update their floodplain procedures with federal flood and environmental offices, and federal officials should revisit implementation each year when better science shows flood risk has changed.”
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“Federal agencies should use the best available flood information, including FEMA maps where available, future-looking climate and flood data, added safety margins, and larger flood-risk areas when deciding whether a covered action is in a floodplain.”
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“Agency heads should be able to waive the federal flood standard for federally funded projects when emergencies or national security require it, should publicly explain emergency waivers, and urgent Stafford Act disaster work needed to save lives or protect health, safety, or property should be excluded.”
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“Federal agencies should build, repair, and manage federal buildings in flood-prone areas using federal floodplain procedures, National Flood Insurance Program building standards when they fit, accepted floodproofing methods, and visible flood-height markers at some public federal sites.”
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“Federally funded projects in covered flood-prone areas should have to meet the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard unless a specific exemption applies.”
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“Federal agencies should update their floodplain rules with federal flood and environmental bodies, tell OMB whether proposed floodplain projects meet the standards, report on implementation after one year, and face regular Water Resources Council review and reports to Congress.”
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“Federal buildings and facilities in floodplains should follow agency and National Flood Insurance Program standards when those standards fit, use accepted floodproofing when built or repaired, and be raised above the floodplain instead of using fill when practicable.”
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“Federal agencies should use FEMA maps, the best available flood information, future-risk methods, and added height margins when judging flood risk, with federal flood science reviewed yearly and the federal flood standard reviewed at least every five years.”
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“Federal agencies should look for safer alternatives before acting in floodplains, consider natural flood protections when workable, reduce harm when a floodplain site cannot be avoided, and raise structures instead of adding fill dirt when practical.”
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“Before federal agencies carry out, fund, approve, or allow actions in floodplains, they should look for safer locations or designs, consider natural flood protection where it can work, and reduce harm when floodplain use cannot be avoided.”
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“Federal floodplain protections should operate within agencies' existing legal powers and should not change OMB's existing budget role.”
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“Federal agencies should notify affected state, local, and Tribal governments about planned floodplain actions, explain the location and alternatives, allow a short chance to comment, and give the public an early look at covered floodplain plans.”
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“Federal floodplain review should cover many actions in or affecting floodplains, including federal projects, funding, permits, licenses, land management, property transfers, and some housing or community development reviews handled by qualified local applicants.”
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“Certain military construction and urgent disaster work should be outside some federal floodplain procedures, and agency heads should be able to exempt federally funded projects from the federal flood standard for national security or emergency reasons, with public factual notice after emergency exemptions.”
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