‘‘(J) identify ways to assist communities in 
efforts to fund the accreditation of flood protec-
tion systems. 
‘‘(2) ANNUAL REPORTS.— 
‘‘(A) ACTIVITIES.—Not later than Decem-
ber 31 of each calendar year, the National 
Flood Insurance Advocate shall report to the 
Committee on Financial Services of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Bank-
ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate 
on the activities of the Office of the Flood In-
surance Advocate during the fiscal year ending 
during such calendar year. Any such report 
shall contain full and substantive analysis, in 
addition to statistical information, and shall— 
‘‘(i) identify the initiatives the Office 
of the Flood Insurance Advocate has taken 
on improving services for insureds under 
the national flood insurance program and 
responsiveness of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency with respect to such 
program; 
‘‘(ii) identify areas of the law or regu-
lations relating to the national flood insur-
ance program that impose significant com-
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pliance burdens on such insureds or the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency, 
including specific recommendations for 
remedying these problems; and 
‘‘(iii) include such other information 
as the National Flood Insurance Advocate 
may deem advisable. 
‘‘(B) DIRECT SUBMISSION OF REPORT.— 
Each report required under this paragraph 
shall be provided directly to the committees 
identified in subparagraph (A) without any 
prior review or comment from the Director, the 
Secretary of Homeland Security, or any other 
officer or employee of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency or the Department of 
Homeland Security, or the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget. 
‘‘(c) FUNDING.—Pursuant to section 1310(a)(4), the 
Director may use amounts from the National Flood Insur-
ance Fund to fund the activities of the Office of the Flood 
Advocate in each of fiscal years 2012 through 2017, ex-
cept that the amount so used in each such fiscal year may 
not exceed $5,000,000 and shall remain available until ex-
pended. Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, 
amounts made available pursuant to this subsection shall 
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not be subject to offsetting collections through premium 
rates for flood insurance coverage under this title.’’. 
SEC. 31. TREATMENT OF PREVIOUSLY MAPPED AREAS. 
Section 1360 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 4101) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new subsection: 
‘‘(k) 
TREATMENT
OF
PREVIOUSLY
MAPPED 
AREAS.—If the Director issues a letter of map revision 
for an area or a portion of an area to correct an error 
in a recently issued flood insurance rate map and such 
letter results in the designation of such area as not having 
special flood hazards, the Director shall reexamine the 
designation of any areas bordering or abutting the area 
that was the subject of such letter if such areas are located 
within a special flood hazard area. The Director shall in-
form the community and residents within such area of the 
results of such examination no later than one year after 
the date of the initial letter of map revision.’’. 
SEC. 32. REMAPPING OF AREAS WITH IMPROVED LEVEES. 
Section 1360 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 4101) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new subsection: 
‘‘(l) REMAPPING OF AREAS WITH IMPROVED LEV-
EES.—If at any time any community, any State, the Army 
Corps of Engineers, or any other entity improves any levee 
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system that protects any area that is located in an area 
having special flood hazards and the Director determines 
that such improvement mitigates flood risk in a manner 
that eliminates the risk of flooding in the area, the Direc-
tor shall— 
‘‘(1) revise and update the floodplain areas and 
flood risk zones, and the flood insurance maps re-
flecting such areas and zones, for the areas pro-
tected by such levee system so that any requirement 
under the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 for 
mandatory purchase of flood insurance does not 
apply to such area; and 
‘‘(2) make the updated maps and any informa-
tion regarding such updating available to the af-
fected communities.’’. 
SEC. 33. APPEALS. 
(a) TELEVISION AND RADIO ANNOUNCEMENT.—Sec-
tion 1363 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 
(42 U.S.C. 4104) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by inserting after ‘‘deter-
minations’’ by inserting the following: ‘‘by notifying 
a local television and radio station,’’; and 
(2) in the first sentence of subsection (b), by in-
serting before the period at the end the following: 
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‘‘and shall notify a local television and radio station 
at least once during the same 10-day period’’. 
(b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by sub-
section (a) shall apply with respect to any flood elevation 
determination for any area in a community that has not, 
as of the date of the enactment of this Act, been issued 
a Letter of Final Determination for such determination 
under the flood insurance map modernization process. 
SEC. 34. ELIGIBILITY OF PROPERTY DEMOLITION AND RE-
BUILDING UNDER FLOOD MITIGATION AS-
SISTANCE PROGRAM. 
(a) FLOOD MITIGATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.— 
Section 1366(e)(5)(B) of the National Flood Insurance 
Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4104c(e)(5)(B)) is amended by 
striking ‘‘or floodproofing’’ and inserting ‘‘floodproofing, 
or demolition and rebuilding of properties to at least base 
flood elevation or greater, if required by any local ordi-
nance’’. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that section 1366 of the Flood Insurance Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 4104c), as in effect on the day before 
the date of enactment of this Act, authorized the Adminis-
trator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to 
consider property demolition and rebuilding as eligible ac-
tivities under the Flood Mitigation Assistance Program. 
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