Things like that. They'd never be able to get them to take care of problems if the
community was lax and didn't want to do it.
They'd go out and you'd see an inspection report come back one year, maybe two or three
years in a row, with the same kind of complaints about their community not taking care
of things. But, I think, because of this 221 agreement, that it's getting less and less of a
problem.
Q ..
Now the Corps has a way of compelling compliance.
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They can force them to do it now that they've signed the agreement.
Hoodplain Management
Q ..
We were generally talking about the floodplain management. Was it difficult to get the
Corps to change and pay more attention to that?
A ..
Well, Goddard left and things got more on an even keel. They had a branch of the
planning division assigned to do that, to promote that kind of activity. George
I'm sure you remember George.
Q ..
Yes, I knew him.
He was in charge of it for several years. He was a go-getter; he got a lot of things for
A
them to do. A good share of their work was with FEMA, just getting steady contracts and
helping FEMA through the years trying to get the Corps' studies done, the way FEMA
wanted them done.
But there was no longer this demand for the flood information reports as such. They were
being done now as flood insurance studies. Then they had a program where the
community could get help from the Corps. If they were having flooding problems, they
could come to the Corps and get some advice. I understand now that they're going to have
to pay for it from now on.
Last fall, when they agreed on the budget, one of the things was to start charging
communities for that kind of assistance. But they used to have a program where if a
community came to the Corps and said, "Hey, we're interested in trying to help ourselves
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