SEC. 4. ADEQUATE PROGRESS ON CONSTRUCTION OF 
FLOOD PROTECTION SYSTEMS. 
Subsection (e) of section 1307 of the National Flood 
Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4014(e)) is amended 
by adding after the period at the end the following: ‘‘Not-
withstanding any other provision of law, in determining 
whether a community has made adequate progress on the 
construction, reconstruction, or improvement of a flood 
protection system, the Administrator shall not consider 
the level of Federal funding of or participation in the con-
struction, reconstruction, or improvement.’’. 
SEC. 5. COMMUNITIES RESTORING DISACCREDITED FLOOD 
PROTECTION SYSTEMS. 
Subsection (f) of section 1307 of the National Flood 
Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4014(f)) is amended 
by striking the first sentence and inserting the following: 
‘‘Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this sub-
section shall apply to riverine and coastal levees, but only 
in a community which has been determined by the Admin-
istrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
to be in the process of restoring flood protection afforded 
by a flood protection system that had been previously ac-
credited on a Flood Insurance Rate Map as providing 100- 
year frequency flood protection but no longer does so, and 
shall apply without regard to the level of Federal funding 
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of or participation in the construction, reconstruction, or 
improvement of the flood protection system.’’. 
SEC. 6. AFFORDABILITY STUDY. 
Section 100236 of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insur-
ance Reform Act of 2012 (Public Law 112–141; 126 Stat. 
957) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘Not’’ and in-
serting the following: ‘‘Subject to subsection (e), 
not’’; 
(2) in subsection (d)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘(d) FUNDING.—Notwith-
standing’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(d) FUNDING.— 
‘‘(1) NATIONAL
FLOOD
INSURANCE
FUND.— 
Notwithstanding’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) OTHER FUNDING SOURCES.—To carry out 
this section, in addition to the amount made avail-
able under paragraph (1), the Administrator may 
use any other amounts that are available to the Ad-
ministrator.’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
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‘‘(e) ALTERNATIVE.—If the Administrator deter-
mines that the report required under subsection (c) cannot 
be submitted by the date specified under subsection (c)— 
‘‘(1) the Administrator shall notify, not later 
than 60 days after the date of enactment of this 
subsection, the Committee on Banking, Housing, 
and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee 
on Financial Services of the House of Representa-
tives of an alternative method of gathering the infor-
mation required under this section; 
‘‘(2) the Administrator shall submit, not later 
than 180 days after the Administrator submits the 
notification required under paragraph (1), to the 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 
of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Serv-
ices of the House of Representatives the information 
gathered using the alternative method described in 
paragraph (1); and 
‘‘(3) upon the submission of information re-
quired under paragraph (2), the requirement under 
subsection (c) shall be deemed satisfied.’’. 
SEC. 7. MAPPING OF NON-STRUCTURAL FLOOD MITIGA-
TION FEATURES. 
Section 100216 of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insur-
ance Reform Act of 2012 (42 U.S.C. 4101b) is amended— 
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(1) in subsection (b)(1)(A)— 
(A) in clause (iv), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(B) by redesignating clause (v) as clause 
(vi); 
(C) by inserting after clause (iv) the fol-
lowing new clause: 
‘‘(v) areas that are protected by non- 
structural flood mitigation features; and’’; 
and 
(D) in clause (vi) (as so redesignated), by 
inserting before the semicolon at the end the 
following: ‘‘and by non-structural flood mitiga-
tion features’’; and 
(2) in subsection (d)(1)— 
(A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) 
through (C) as subparagraphs (B) through (D), 
respectively; and 
(B) by inserting before subparagraph (B) 
(as so redesignated) the following new subpara-
graph: 
‘‘(A) work with States, local communities, 
and property owners to identify areas and fea-
tures described in subsection (b)(1)(A)(v);’’. 
Æ 
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