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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.
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