Finally, insurers have shifted coverage for homes in high-risk areas to state insurance pools.
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The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is discussing how to provide affordable premiums in high-risk areas, but says talks are at an impasse.
The legislation will streamline previously excessive bureaucratic procedures so that federal land managers can begin thinning up to 20 million acres in high-risk areas.
They also agree that there probably won't be any major change until insurers take climate change into account and refuse to insure high-risk areas.
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is discussing how to provide affordable premiums in high-risk areas, but had previously said talks were at an impasse.
In America, where insurance is regulated on a state-by-state basis, caps on insurance premiums have prompted firms to withdraw coverage in high-risk areas such as Florida.
This can include clearing drains, improving storm barriers and coastal defences, or putting in place planning regulations to discourage development in high-risk areas such as flood plains.
Minc said he wants to stop construction of homes in high-risk areas, such as river banks or steep mountain slopes -- a practice that he said was encouraged by previous governments.
To fix this, the polio workers walked through all high-risk areas in the northern part of the country, which enabled them to add 3, 000 previously overlooked communities to the immunization campaigns.
The police force is being expanded to reinforce high-risk areas and the country's vibrant civil rights community has pursued an aggressive campaign calling on Kenyans to rise above the politics of ethnicity.
Our guiding principle has been to focus resources on targeting high-risk areas in order to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in Federal programs, while increasing flexibility and reducing burden for grant recipients wherever possible.
And just one week ago, the deputy head of Canada's spy agency, the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, Jack Hooper, told a Senate committee here that only a fraction of immigrants from high-risk areas were being properly screened.
The ABI claimed that, at present, people in lower risk areas paid more in premiums than would otherwise be the case to subsidise those at higher risk, and customers in high-risk areas were tied to their existing insurer.
"We are running out of time to make sure that people in high-risk areas are properly protected from the devastation flooding can cause, and the ball is now in the government's court, " said Otto Thoresen, the ABI director general.
"While the government will continue to do everything possible to track down and apprehend agents of terrorism in the country, the president has directed that enhanced security measures be put in place immediately for health workers in high-risk areas, " the statement read.
The legislation would require constant surveillance of high-risk border areas and require that border officers turn back at least 90% of those who attempt illegal crossings each year.
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He said current guidelines which say TB patients should only be offered testing - along with counselling and informed consent - if they are from high-risk groups or areas should be reviewed.
The UN says the virus circulated in five high-risk districts in Balochistan and has now spread to areas not previously infected for the past five years, including the country's tribal areas and the provinces of Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Specifically, Clinton has appointed a team, led by her deputy, to focus on tightening security, sent joint teams of military special forces and diplomatic security threat analysts to more than a dozen high-risk posts and appointed a senior official to focus exclusively on those areas.
"Mukhtar played an important role in providing vulnerable communities with access to clean drinking water and sanitation in areas where the risk of water-based diseases is high, " UNICEF Deputy Representative Hannan Sulieman said.
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