U.S. Congress - H.R.4050 Levee-Like Structure Consideration Act of 2007
H.R.4050 - Levee-Like Structure Consideration Act of 2007
To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to issue guidance providing a process for consideration of the flood protections afforded by certain structures for purposes of the national flood insurance program. view all titles (3)
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- Short: Levee-Like Structure Consideration Act of 2007 as introduced.
- Short: Levee-Like Structure Consideration Act of 2007 as reported to house.
- Official: To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to issue guidance providing a process for consideration of the flood protections afforded by certain structures for purposes of the national flood insurance program. as introduced.
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12/4/2007--Reported to House without amendment. (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)Levee-Like Structure Consideration Act of 2007 - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to issue anOfficial Summary
12/4/2007--Reported to House without amendment. (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)Levee-Like Structure Consideration Act of 2007 - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to issue and make effective notice or guidance providing, for purposes of determining flood plain areas and flood-risk zones under the national flood insurance program:
(1) a specified process by which a community may request and obtain from the Administrator a determination, including provisional accreditation, of the nature and extent of any flood protection afforded by any structure or feature that was recognized as having some mitigating effect on flood risk on the applicable flood insurance rate map in effect on January 1, 2003, but that does not meet federal requirements for recognition as a levee offering protection from the base flood for purposes of such program; and
(2) that any flood protections so determined to be afforded by such structure or feature shall be recognized on and incorporated in updated flood insurance rate maps for any area whose flood risk is affected.
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