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r News Rele se Floodplain Management Program December 1991 Page 2 that stil may be subject to localized flooding. The city's participation also ensu es federal financial assistance to repair and reconstruct insurable buildings within the Special Flood Hazard Area if a flood occurs and the community is declared a disaster by the president of the United States. The overning body of each community that applies to the CRS must undertake a number of activities that will help reduce flood losses in the community and that promote an awareness of flood hazards. The City was involved 'n a number of activities before applying to the CRS, including regulatin development in designated flood hazard areas, providing flood insurance information and map determination services at the Permit and Informati n Center, and regular flood prevention activities, such as the leaf pickup pr gram and local channel maintenance. New ctivities include developing a flood hazard information and resource ection at the Eugene Public Library, implementing an annual mailing to all ad resses within the urban growth boundary, and using a computerized system to identify sites within regulated flood hazard areas. Floo ing comprises approximately 75 percent of all natural disasters in the Unite States. Flood insurance was practically nonexistent until Congress assed the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968. As a result of the Act, the ational Flood Insurance Program was created and the Federal Insurance Administration began to conduct flood hazard studies across the nation to locate and map flood hazard areas. Since it made no sense to create an insurance program without also creating a flood hazard mitigation plan, flo d insurance was made available only to those communities that adopted f oodplain management plans that met minimum NFIP standards.