---
kind: "section"
citation: "23 C.F.R. § 650.103"
title: "23"
number: "650.103"
heading: "Policy."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/23/650.103"
---

# §650.103. Policy.


It is the policy of the FHWA:

- (a) To encourage a broad and unified effort to prevent uneconomic, hazardous or incompatible use and development of the Nation's flood plains,
- (b) To avoid longitudinal encroachments, where practicable,
- (c) To avoid significant encroachments, where practicable,
- (d) To minimize impacts of highway agency actions which adversely affect base flood plains,
- (e) To restore and preserve the natural and beneficial flood-plain values that are adversely impacted by highway agency actions,
- (f) To avoid support of incompatible flood-plain development,
- (g) To be consistent with the intent of the Standards and Criteria of the National Flood Insurance Program, where appropriate, and
- (h) To incorporate “A Unified National Program for Floodplain Management” of the Water Resources Council into FHWA procedures.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 44 FR 67580, Nov. 26, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 23 U.S.C. 119, 144, and 315.