Army Corps of Engineers

Mission: Flood control, navigation, wetland destruction permits

Programs:

PL 84-99: Corps pays for 80 percent (and sometimes more) of cost to repair levees enrolled. In the past 10 years, the St. Louis district has spent $25 million to repair local levees under the program.

Levee construction: Corps pays for up to 65 percent of the cost of building levees and flood walls that are economically justified. Since 1993, the St. Louis district has completed or started work on nine local levees with a total value of $197 million.



Federal Emergency Management Agency

Mission: Disaster preparation, relief and mitigation; reducing flood damages; flood plain management and mapping

Programs:

National Flood Insurance Program: Provides flood insurance in communities that agree to adopt minimum flood plain management codes. The program paid out $271 million in claims to policyholders after the Flood of 1993.

Disaster aid: FEMA spent $1.14 billion on the '93 flood. Costs included: $371 million to individuals and families for temporary housing, unemployment payments, etc.; $519 million to states and local governments for public property restoration and cleanup; $158 million to local governments for property buyouts; and $23.3 million to federal agencies for emergency supplies.

Flood buyouts: Nationwide, $1 billion has been spent to buy out or flood-proof 30,000 flood-prone properties.



Missouri State Emergency Management Agency

Mission: Technical assistance to communities enrolled in the National Flood Insurance Program

Programs: Community assistance visits, technical help. Unlike some other states, Missouri has no flood plain management laws of its own.



Local communities

Mission: Participation in National Flood Insurance Program

Programs: Each community must adopt local ordinances reflecting minimum flood plain management rules. A local "flood plain manager" is in charge of issuing flood plain construction permits for new development within the 100-year flood plain, not including levee-protected areas. This new development must be built at least to the elevation of a 100-year flood.