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Floodplain Easement Program

The Floodplain Easement Program (FEP) is a voluntary program that offers landowners the means and the opportunity to protect, restore and enhance lands subject to repeated flooding and flood damage.  The Floodplain Easement is funded through the Emergency Watershed Protection Program.  The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) manages the program as well as provides technical and financial support to help landowners that participate in FEP.

The objective of the FEP program is to assist in relieving imminent hazards to life and property from floods and the products of erosion created by natural disasters that are causing a sudden impairment of a watershed.  The FEP Program is not intended to deny any party access to the traditional eligible EWP practices, but rather to provide a more permanent solution to repetitive disaster assistance payments and achieve greater environmental benefits where the situation warrants and the affected Landowner is willing to participate in the easement approach.

The benefits of FEP includes; 1) reduction of the public risk of flood damages including public risk to downstream or adjacent lands, 2) protection of lives and property from floods, 2) reduction in soil erosion through restoration, protection and/or enhancement of the floodplain, 3) elimination of future disaster payments, 4) restoration, protection, management, maintenance and enhancement of the functions of wetlands, riparian areas, and other lands, and 5) conservation natural values including fish and wildlife habitat, water quality improvement, flood water retention, groundwater recharge, open space, aesthetics, and environmental education.

Additional information:

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Microsoft word document Step-by-Step Application Information
microsoft word document Indiana Question & Answer Sheet
adobe acrobat document Indiana 2002 FEP Summary
adobe acrobat document Indiana WRP-FEP Acres Map

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Forms Needed:

adobe acrobat document AD-1153 Application for Long-term Contracted Assistance Through the FEP
adobe acrobat document AD-1154 Attachment A General Provisions
adobe acrobat document AD-1157 Option Agreement to Purchase
adobe acrobat document AD-1157A Option Agreement to Purchase, Amendment 1
adobe acrobat document AD-1158 Subordination Agreement and Limited Lien Waiver
adobe acrobat document AD-1159 Notification of Intent to Continue
adobe acrobat document AD-1161 Application for Payment
adobe acrobat document NRCS CPA 38 Request for Certified Wetland Determination
adobe acrobat document NRCS LTP 13 Conservation Program Status Review