[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1316 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1316

 To provide for appropriate notification of communities and homeowners 
of establishment of flood elevations for purposes of the National Flood 
                           Insurance Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 4, 2009

Mr. Sensenbrenner introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for appropriate notification of communities and homeowners 
of establishment of flood elevations for purposes of the National Flood 
                           Insurance Program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Flood Elevation Notification Act of 
2009''.

SEC. 2. NOTIFICATION OF ESTABLISHMENT OF FLOOD ELEVATIONS.

    Section 1363 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 
4104) is amended by striking the section designation and all that 
follows through the end of subsection (a) and inserting the following:
    ``Sec. 1363. (a) In establishing projected flood elevations for 
land use purposes with respect to any community pursuant to section 
1361, the Director shall first propose such determinations--
            ``(1) by providing the chief executive officer of each 
        community affected by the proposed elevations, by certified 
        mail, with a return receipt requested, notice of the 
        elevations, including a copy of the maps for the elevations for 
        such community and a statement explaining the process under 
        this section to appeal for changes in such elevations;
            ``(2) by causing notice of such elevations to be published 
        in the Federal Register, which notice shall include information 
        sufficient to identify the elevation determinations and the 
        communities affected, information explaining how to obtain 
        copies of the elevations, and a statement explaining the 
        process under this section to appeal for changes in the 
        elevations;
            ``(3) by publishing in a prominent local newspaper the 
        elevations, a description of the appeals process for flood 
        determinations, and the mailing address and telephone number of 
        a person the owner may contact for more information or to 
        initiate an appeal; and
            ``(4) by providing written notification, by first class 
        mail, to each owner of real property affected by the proposed 
        elevations of--
                    ``(A) the status of such property, both prior to 
                and after the effective date of the proposed 
                determination, with respect to flood zone and flood 
                insurance requirements under this Act and the Flood 
                Disaster Protection Act of 1973;
                    ``(B) the process under this section to appeal a 
                flood elevation determination; and
                    ``(C) the mailing address and phone number of a 
                person the owner may contact for more information or to 
                initiate an appeal.''.
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