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“Covered communities should have to create flood-reduction plans for repeatedly flooded areas, send the plans and updates to FEMA, carry the plans out, and be allowed to include the work in mitigation plans they already prepare.”
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“Landowners should be allowed to use floodplain easement land in limited ways, including needed restoration upkeep and some hunting, fishing, timber, water management, haying, or grazing, when USDA finds the use fits long-term floodplain protection.”
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“FEMA should have to report to Congress on how covered communities are carrying out their flood-reduction plans, with the first report due within 6 years and later reports due at least every 2 years.”
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“Treasury should study whether to create a fund to help move homes and businesses that can no longer get insurance because disaster risk is too high, and whether broad property insurance policies should include earthquake coverage.”
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“FEMA should be able to consider a community's repeat-flood planning and progress when deciding certain flood-related financial assistance, and should be able to penalize communities that do not follow through, including possible flood insurance program probation or suspension.”
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“Federal flood insurance should invest more in preventing repeated flood damage before the next disaster happens.”
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“FEMA, states, tribes, and communities should have more grants, loans, and insurance credits for projects that lower flood risk, especially for repeatedly flooded properties and households facing unaffordable flood costs.”
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“USDA should be able to make contracts with landowners and work with states, Tribal governments, and nonprofits to restore and maintain floodplain easement land.”
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“Covered communities should have to identify where repeatedly flooded buildings and facilities are located and study the ongoing flood risk in those areas, with help from FEMA.”
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“Congress should study whether to help move properties that cannot get insurance and whether earthquake risk should be added to broad disaster insurance.”
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“Before penalizing a covered community over repeat-flood planning or progress, FEMA should have to warn the community, suggest ways to fix the problem, and consider local resources, federal funding, flood exposure, and other barriers.”
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“Local communities in the federal flood insurance program should enter the repeat-flood planning system if they have 50 repeatedly flooded buildings, 5 severe repeat-loss buildings without approved mitigation, or a public or nonprofit facility repaired with federal disaster aid after more than one flood in 10 years.”
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“USDA should be able to restore plants, water flow, and other floodplain features on land already covered by a federal floodplain easement, then keep checking and maintaining that restoration over time.”
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“USDA should be able to fund and guide work to restore plants and wetland water functions on existing Emergency Watershed Program floodplain easements, and work with agencies or nonprofits to maintain those restored areas.”
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“The Secretary of Agriculture alone should decide whether to make agreements that let landowners use USDA floodplain easement land in ways USDA considers compatible with the easement.”
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“USDA should be able to do more than repair immediate watershed damage when stronger restoration would better protect the watershed's long-term health and reduce repeated damage.”
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