SEC. 2. FLOOD MAPPING MODERNIZATION AND HOME-
OWNER EMPOWERMENT PILOT PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency shall carry out a pilot 
program to make grants to units of local government to 
enhance the mapping of urban flooding and associated 
property damage and the availability of such mapped data 
to homeowners, businesses, and units of local government 
to enable them to minimize the risk of such flooding. 
(b) OBJECTIVES.—Amounts from grants made under 
the pilot program under this section may be used only to 
carry out activities to meet the following objectives: 
(1) To develop a methodology for assessing 
urban flood risk through the deployment of tech-
nology-based mapping tools that are easily under-
standable by the public and effectively convey infor-
mation regarding the level of flood risk. 
(2) To provide structure-specific projections of 
annual chance flood frequency. 
(3) To provide structure-based flood-risk assess-
ments. 
(4) To provide urban flood-risk mitigation pro-
gram design. 
(5) To incorporate information regarding cli-
mate trends into urban flooding risk assessments. 
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(6) To make the information described in this 
subsection publicly available on the internet through 
a web-based portal so as to increase transparency re-
garding homeowner flood risks. 
(c) ELIGIBLE RECIPIENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Grants under the pilot pro-
gram under this section may be made only to units 
of general local government located in a urbanized 
areas, as such term is used by the Bureau of the 
Census of the Department of Commerce, having 
populations exceeding 50,000 or to stormwater man-
agement authorities of such units of general local 
government. 
(2) ONE-TIME
GRANTS.—A grant under the 
pilot program under this section may not be made 
to— 
(A) any unit of general local governmental, 
or stormwater management authority of a unit 
of general government, that has previously re-
ceived a grant under the pilot program; 
(B) any unit of general local government if 
the stormwater management agency for such 
unit has previously received a grant under the 
pilot program; or 
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(C) any stormwater management agency of 
a unit of general local government if such unit 
has previously received a grant under the pilot 
program. 
(3) TREATMENT
OF
STORMWATER
MANAGE-
MENT AUTHORITIES.—In the case of a stormwater 
management authority that operates with respect to 
more than one unit of general local government, the 
application of such authority shall be considered for 
purposes of paragraph (2) of this subsection and 
subsections (e), (f), and (g)(1) to be made for the 
largest unit of general local government for which 
such authority operates. The preceding sentence 
shall not limit the ability of such authority to carry 
out activities under the demonstration project in any 
other jurisdictions or unit of local government with 
respect to which the authority operates. 
(d) APPLICATIONS.—To be eligible for a grant under 
this section a unit of general local government or stormwa-
ter management agency shall submit to the Administrator 
an application in such form and containing such informa-
tion as the Administrator shall require. 
(e) SELECTION OF RECIPIENTS.— 
(1) ANNUAL
SELECTION.—Subject to para-
graph (2) and to the submission of approvable appli-
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cations, in each fiscal year for which amounts are 
made available for grants under the pilot program 
under this section the Administrator shall select, 
from among applications submitted under subsection 
(d) for such fiscal year, 3 units of general govern-
ment or stormwater management authorities to re-
ceive grants under the pilot program under this sec-
tion. 
(2) AGGREGATE
LIMIT.—Subject only to the 
submission of approvable applications, the Adminis-
trator shall select, in the aggregate over the entire 
duration of the pilot program under this section, 12 
units of general government or stormwater manage-
ment authorities to receive grants under the pilot 
program, as follows: 
(A) TIER 1.—Three of the applicants se-
lected shall be units of general local govern-
ment, or stormwater management authorities 
for such units, having a population exceeding 
800,000, as follows: 
(i) PELAGIC
COASTAL
CITY.—One 
shall be a unit of general local government, 
or stormwater authority for such a unit, 
that is a pelagic unit. 
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(ii) NON-PELAGIC
COASTAL
CITY.— 
One shall be unit of general local govern-
ment, or stormwater authority for such a 
unit, that is a coastal unit, but not a pe-
lagic unit. 
(iii) NON-COASTAL
CITY.—One shall 
be unit of general local government, or 
stormwater authority for such a unit, that 
is not a coastal unit. 
(B) TIER 2.—Six of the applicants selected 
shall be units of general local government, or 
stormwater management authorities for such 
units, having a population exceeding 200,000 
but not exceeding 800,000, as follows: 
(i) COASTAL CITIES.—Three shall be 
units of general local government, or 
stormwater management authorities for 
such units, that are coastal units. 
(ii) 
NON-COASTAL
CITIES.—Three 
shall be units of general local government, 
or stormwater management authorities for 
such units, that are not coastal units. 
(C) TIER 3.—Three of the applicants se-
lected shall be units of general local govern-
ment, or stormwater management authorities 
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