New Policy Links Reconstruction Dollars to Advisory Flood Elevations

New Policy Links Reconstruction Dollars to Advisory Flood Elevations: "WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is encouraging building back stronger and safer after major disasters in communities nationwide. FEMA announced today that FEMA-funded mitigation and public infrastructure recovery projects - including those in heavily impacted areas of the Gulf Coast region - are to be tied to new, higher floodplain elevations updated by FEMA using the most accurate flood risk data available"