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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 472 

To allow communities to develop alternative flood insurance rate maps, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 10, 2019 

Mr. LUETKEMEYER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Financial Services 

A BILL 

To allow communities to develop alternative flood insurance 

rate maps, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Community Mapping 

5 Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. COMMUNITY FLOOD MAPS. 

7 (a) TECHNICAL MAPPING ADVISORY COUNCIL.—Sec8 tion 100215 of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Re9 form Act of 2012 (42 U.S.C. 4101a) is amended— 

10 (1) in subsection (c)— 


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1 (A) in paragraph (5)(B), by striking ‘‘and’’ 

2 at the end; 

3 (B) by redesignating paragraph (6) as 

4 paragraph (9); and 

5 (C) by inserting after paragraph (5) the 

6 following new paragraphs: 

7 ‘‘(6) recommend to the Administrator methods 

8 or actions to make the flood mapping processes more 

9 efficient; 

10 ‘‘(7) recommend to the Administrator methods 

11 or actions to minimize any cost, data, and paper12 work requirements of the flood mapping processes; 

13 ‘‘(8) assist communities, and in particular 

14 smaller communities, in locating the resources re15 quired to participate in the development of flood ele16 vations and flood hazard area designations; and’’; 

17 and 

18 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub19 section: 

20 ‘‘(m) COMMUNITY FLOOD MAPS.— 

21 ‘‘(1) STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES.—In addi22 tion to the other duties of the Council under this 

23 section, not later than the expiration of the 12- 

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1 ommend to the Administrator standards and re2 quirements for chief executive officers, or entities 

3 designated by chief executive officers, of States and 

4 communities participating in the National Flood In5 surance Program to use in mapping flood hazards 

6 located in States and communities that choose to de7 velop alternative maps to the flood insurance rate 

8 maps developed by the Agency. The recommended 

9 standards and requirements shall include procedures 

10 for providing notification and appeal rights to indi11 viduals within the communities of the proposed flood 

12 elevation determinations. 

13 ‘‘(2) EXEMPTION FROM RULEMAKING.—Until 

14 such time as the Administrator promulgates regula15 tions implementing paragraph (1) of this subsection, 

16 the Administrator may, notwithstanding any other 

17 provision of law, adopt policies and procedures nec18 essary to implement such paragraphs without under19 going notice and comment rulemaking and without 

20 conducting regulatory analyses otherwise required by 

21 statute, regulation, or executive order.’’. 

22 (b) FEMA IDENTIFICATION OF FLOOD-PRONE

23 AREAS.—Subsection (a) of section 1360 of the National 

24 Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4101(a)) is 

25 amended— 


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1 (1) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at 

2 the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; 

3 (2) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as 

4 subparagraphs (A), and (B), respectively, and re5 aligning such subparagraphs so as to be indented 4 

6 ems from the left margin; 

7 (3) by striking ‘‘is authorized to consult’’ and 

8 inserting the following: ‘‘is authorized— 

9 ‘‘(1) to consult’’; 

10 (4) by adding at the end the following new 

11 paragraph: 

12 ‘‘(2) to receive proposed alternative maps from 

13 communities developed pursuant to standards and 

14 requirements recommended by the Technical Map15 ping Advisory Council, as required by section 

16 100215(m) of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance 

17 Reform Act of 2012 (42 U.S.C. 4101a(m)) and 

18 adopted by the Administrator as required by section 

19 100216(c)(3) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 4101b(c)(3)), 

20 so that the Administrator may— 

21 ‘‘(A) publish information with respect to 

22 all flood plain areas, including coastal areas lo23 cated in the United States, which have special 

24 flood hazards, and 


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1 ‘‘(B) establish or update flood-risk zone 

2 data in all such areas, and make estimates with 

3 respect to the rates of probable flood caused 

4 loss for the various flood risk zones for each of 

5 these areas until the date specified in section 

6 1319.’’. 

7 (c) NATIONAL FLOOD MAPPING PROGRAM.—Section 

8 100216 of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform 

9 Act of 2012 (42 U.S.C. 4101b) is amended— 

10 (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘prepared by 

11 the Administrator, or by a community pursuant to 

12 section 1360(a)(2) of the National Flood Insurance 

13 Act of 1968,’’ after ‘‘Program rate maps’’; 

14 (2) in subsection (c)— 

15 (A) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘and’’ 

16 at the end; 

17 (B) in paragraph (2)(C), by striking the 

18 period at the end and inserting a semicolon; 

19 and 

20 (C) by adding at the end the following new 

21 paragraphs: 

22 ‘‘(3) establish and adopt standards and require23 ments for development by States and communities of 

24 alternative flood insurance rate maps to be sub25 mitted to the Administrator pursuant to section 


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1 1360(a)(2) of the National Flood Insurance Act of 

2 1968, taking into consideration the recommenda3 tions of the Technical Mapping Advisory Council 

4 made pursuant to section 100215(m) of this Act (42 

5 U.S.C. 4101a(m)); and 

6 ‘‘(4) in the case of proposed alternative maps 

7 received by the Administrator pursuant to such sec8 tion 1360(a)(2), not later than the expiration of the 

9 6-month period beginning upon receipt of such pro10 posed alternative maps— 

11 ‘‘(A) determine whether such maps were 

12 developed in accordance with the standards and 

13 requirements adopted pursuant to paragraph 

14 (3) of this subsection; and 

15 ‘‘(B) approve or disapprove such proposed 

16 maps for use under National Flood Insurance 

17 Program.’’; and 

18 (3) in subsection (d)(1), by inserting ‘‘max19 imum’’ before ‘‘30-day period’’ each place such term 

20 appears in subparagraphs (B) and (C). 

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