[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 764 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 764

     To ensure fair treatment of existing levees and flood control 
         structures under the national flood insurance program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 17, 2011

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

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                                 A BILL


 
     To ensure fair treatment of existing levees and flood control 
         structures under 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 ``Fair Treatment of Existing Levees 
Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF EXISTING LEVEES AND FLOOD CONTROL STRUCTURES.

    (a) In General.--The Administrator of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency may not use the assumption that a currently existing 
levee or flood control structure does not exist to designate an area as 
having new flood hazards pursuant to issuance, revision, updating, or 
any other process to implement changes in flood insurance maps used 
under the national flood insurance program under the National Flood 
Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), except in cases where 
no affected community notifies the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
of objections to the Administrator's hazard modeling processes within 
90 days of the enactment of this Act, and provided that prior to 
implementation of this provision the affected community provides 
sufficient notification to the affected residents that the level of 
protection provided by such levee or flood control structure is under 
review.
    (b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
construed to establish, provide, or otherwise imply that the presence 
of an existing levee or flood control structure pursuant to subsection 
(a) thereby accredits such levee with providing protection from a flood 
of a level that has a 1-percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in 
any single year.
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