{"id":6769,"date":"2010-05-13T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-joins-effort-to-ease-the-financial-burden-of-flood-protection-for-rural-communities\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:11:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:11:18","slug":"merkley-joins-effort-to-ease-the-financial-burden-of-flood-protection-for-rural-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-joins-effort-to-ease-the-financial-burden-of-flood-protection-for-rural-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley se une a los esfuerzos para aliviar la carga financiera de la protecci\u00f3n contra inundaciones para las comunidades rurales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington DC<\/strong> &ndash; Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley joined Montana Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester in an effort to make it easier and more affordable for rural communities to comply with flood protection requirements.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Many Oregon communities are already struggling with high unemployment and a lackluster economy and can&rsquo;t afford the high cost private companies charge for recertification,&rdquo; said Merkley.&nbsp; &ldquo;To make matters worse, if the communities can&rsquo;t foot the bill, the financial burden then shifts to local families and businesses.&nbsp; We can prevent this from happening by making it more affordable for communities to protect themselves from the threat of floods.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many small to mid-sized communities cannot afford to fund the environmental and engineering studies required by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for recertification.&nbsp; If the dikes and levees are not recertified, communities across Oregon would be in danger of having significantly larger portions of their land defined as a &ldquo;flood plain.&rdquo;&nbsp; This would result in many business owners and families being required to purchase costly flood protection insurance. <br \/>&nbsp; <br \/>The Rural Community Flood Protection Act will provide the Army Corps of Engineers the authority to carry out levee recertification studies and directs the Corps to cap the non-federal cost share requirement of the engineering studies they provide.&nbsp; This will greatly reduce the cost of recertification for rural communities and help ensure that families and businesses won&rsquo;t be required to purchase expensive private flood protection insurance.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our rural communities should never have to break the bank just to undergo a recertification process,&rdquo; said Merkley.&nbsp; &ldquo;I am proud to join Senators Baucus and Tester and finally make the process of recertification less cumbersome and more affordable for our local communities.&rdquo;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &ndash; Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley joined Montana Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester in an effort to make it easier and more affordable for rural communities to comply with flood protection requirements.&nbsp; &ldquo;Many Oregon communities are already struggling with high unemployment and a lackluster economy and can&rsquo;t afford the high cost private companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-6769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-natural-resources-and-rural-development"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merkley Joins Effort to Ease the Financial Burden of Flood Protection for Rural Communities - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-joins-effort-to-ease-the-financial-burden-of-flood-protection-for-rural-communities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merkley Joins Effort to Ease the Financial Burden of Flood Protection for Rural Communities - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington, D.C. &ndash; 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