Blueprint for Change. Sharing the Challenge: Floodplain Management Into the 21st Century

摘要

In January 1994 you assigned the Review Committee the mission to delineate the major causes and consequences of the 1993 Midwest flooding; to evaluate the performance of existing floodplain management and related watershed management programs. The Review Committee also was to make recommendations to the Task Force on changes in current policies, programs, and activities of the federal government that most effectively would achieve risk reduction, economic efficiency, and environmental enhancement in the floodplain and related watersheds. The report provides the Review Committee's findings and recommendations for action.