The National Flood Insurance Program: Some Midstream Perspectives
- 1 July 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of the American Institute of Planners
- Vol. 42 (3), 303-313
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01944367608977733
Abstract
Federal flood control works and disaster relief have not curtailed rising annual flood losses in the United States. The National Flood Insurance Program takes a new approach. Flood insurance at low rates is offered in communities which adopt floodplain regulations prescribed by the Federal Insurance Administration. Thirteen thousand communities are participating in NFIP on a provisional basis. Final implementation awaits completion of federal floodplain maps. Timely regulation of floodplains by local communities is unnecessarily delayed by various legal and hydrologic issues.Keywords
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