[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 42, Number 12 (Monday, March 27, 2006)]
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[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on the National Flood Insurance Program

March 23, 2006

Memorandum for the Secretary of the Homeland Security

Subject: National Flood Insurance Program

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws 
of the United States, including 42 U.S.C. 4016, I have reviewed and 
hereby approve your request to issue notes to the Secretary of the 
Treasury in excess of $18.5 billion, but not to exceed $20.775 billion, 
for the National Flood Insurance Program.
                                                George W. Bush