Flood Risk Management and Levees : A Federal Primer.

Provides background on responsibilities for flood management, and describes role of Federal agencies. Analyzes flood risk as a composite of flood vulnerability to a 100-year flood, risk management, and levee and flood wall reliability. Discusses flood issues in the 110th Congress, and discusses legi...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2008.
Series:	U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:	Dams. Administrative agencies. Flood control. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	Provides background on responsibilities for flood management, and describes role of Federal agencies. Analyzes flood risk as a composite of flood vulnerability to a 100-year flood, risk management, and levee and flood wall reliability. Discusses flood issues in the 110th Congress, and discusses legislative response to Hurricane Katrina.
Item Description:	Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC. CRS Report. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.