[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
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[S. 2025 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2025

  To postpone the remapping of areas protected by certain levees for 
  purposes of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 16, 2011

   Mr. Moran introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
    referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To postpone the remapping of areas protected by certain levees for 
  purposes of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Redundant Remapping Reform Act of 
2011''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act--
            (1) the term ``Administrator'' means the Administrator of 
        the Federal Emergency Management Agency;
            (2) the term ``covered period'' means--
                    (A) with respect to a levee for which the Army 
                Corps of Engineers has entered into a cost sharing 
                agreement, the 48-month period beginning on the date on 
                which the Army Corps of Engineers makes available any 
                funds required to be made available by the Army Corps 
                of Engineers under the agreement; and
                    (B) with respect to a levee not described in 
                subparagraph (A), the 48-month period beginning on the 
                date on which the Administrator commences an update of 
                a National Flood Insurance Program rate map that 
                includes an area protected by the levee;
            (3) the term ``National Flood Insurance Program'' means the 
        program established under the National Flood Insurance Act of 
        1968 (42 U.S.C. 4011 et seq.); and
            (4) the term ``qualified levee'' means a levee that is 
        being constructed or modified, if the owner of the levee enters 
        into an agreement with the Administrator that the construction 
        or modification will be completed before the end of a covered 
        period relating to the qualified levee.

SEC. 3. REMAPPING OF AREAS PROTECTED BY CERTAIN LEVEES.

    (a) Levees Undergoing Accreditation.--The Administrator may not 
update or publish a National Flood Insurance Program rate map during a 
covered period with respect to an area that is protected by a levee--
            (1) for which a community or other party has sought 
        recognition under section 65.10 of title 44, Code of Federal 
        Regulations, or any successor thereto; and
            (2) with respect to which the Administrator has not issued 
        a Letter of Final Determination.
    (b) Levees Undergoing Planning, Construction, or Rehabilitation.--
            (1) Prohibition.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
        Administrator may not update or publish a National Flood 
        Insurance Program rate map during a covered period with respect 
        to an area that is protected by a qualified levee that is being 
        planned, constructed, or rehabilitated, if the scheduled 
        completion date for the planning, construction, or 
        rehabilitation occurs during the covered period.
            (2) Exceptions.--The Administrator may update or publish a 
        National Flood Insurance Program rate map during a covered 
        period with respect to an area that is protected by a qualified 
        levee described in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) on or after the date on which the construction 
                or rehabilitation of the qualified levee is completed; 
                or
                    (B) on or after the date on which the Administrator 
                determines that the planning, construction, or 
                rehabilitation of the qualified levee is experiencing 
                an indefinite delay.
            (3) Scheduled completion date.--For purposes of this 
        subsection, the scheduled completion date for planning, 
        construction, or rehabilitation of a qualified levee shall be 
        determined by an engineer responsible for the design, 
        modification, or construction of the qualified levee, taking 
        into consideration the actual condition of the qualified levee.
    (c) Notification of Affected Persons.--
            (1) Draft notice.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall publish a notice 
        to be used by owners of qualified levees subject to this 
        section to disclose to persons affected by the qualified 
        levees--
                    (A) information relating to the possible dangers of 
                living in an area affected by the qualified levees 
                without flood insurance coverage;
                    (B) information relating to the availability of 
                flood insurance coverage; and
                    (C) any other information that the Administrator 
                determines is necessary.
            (2) Notice by owners of levees.--
                    (A) In general.--Except as provided in subparagraph 
                (B), not later than 30 days after the commencement of a 
                covered period, the owner of the qualified levee to 
                which the covered period relates shall provide the 
                notice published under paragraph (1) to each person 
                identified by the owner of the qualified levee as a 
                person affected by the qualified levee.
                    (B) Exception.--In the case of a covered period 
                that commences before the date on which the 
                Administrator publishes the notice under paragraph (1), 
                the owner of the qualified levee to which the covered 
                period relates shall provide the notice required under 
                subparagraph (A) to each person identified by the owner 
                of the qualified levee as a person affected by the 
                qualified levee as soon as practicable after the date 
                on which the Administrator publishes the notice.
    (d) Reporting Requirements.--During a covered period relating to a 
qualified levee, the owner of the qualified levee (or a designee of the 
owner) shall submit to the Administrator a quarterly report that 
contains--
            (1) a description of the progress of the construction or 
        modification of the qualified levee; and
            (2) an estimate of the scheduled completion date of the 
        construction or modification of the qualified levee, as 
        determined by an engineer responsible for the design, 
        modification, or construction of the qualified levee, taking 
        into consideration the actual condition of the qualified levee.
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