| (a) Recognizing the extent that previous and current
practices may have increased flood risks, including residual risks,
and considering broad floodplain management and land use approaches
that will avoid increasing flood risks, and avoid negatively affecting
neighboring areas, the RFPG shall:
(1) consider the extent to which a lack of, insufficient,
or ineffective current floodplain management and land use practices,
regulations, policies, and trends related to land use, economic development,
and population growth, allow, cause, or otherwise encourage increases
to flood risks to both:
(A) existing population and property, and
(B) future population and property.
(2) take into consideration the future flood hazard
exposure analysis performed under §361.34 of this title (relating
to Future Condition Flood Risk Analyses in the Region), consider the
extent to which the 1% annual chance floodplain, along with associated
flood risks, may change over time in response to anticipated development
and associated population growth and other relevant man-made causes,
and assess how to best address these potential changes.
(3) based on the analyses in paragraphs (1) - (2) of
this subsection, make recommendations regarding forward-looking floodplain
management and land use recommendations, and economic development
practices and strategies that should be implemented by entities within
the FPR. These region-specific recommendations may include floodplain
management and land use standards and should focus on how to best
address the changes in paragraph (2) of this subsection for entities
within the region. These recommendations shall inform recommended
strategies for inclusion in the RFP.
(b) RFPGs may also choose to adopt region-specific,
floodplain management or land use or other standards that impact flood-risk,
that may vary geographically across the region, that each entity in
the FPR must adopt prior to the RFPG including in the RFP any FMEs,
FMPs or FMSs that are sponsored by or that will otherwise be implemented
by that entity.
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