I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3416 
To allow communities to develop alternative flood insurance rate maps, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 20, 2021 
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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Community Mapping 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. COMMUNITY FLOOD MAPS. 
(a) TECHNICAL MAPPING ADVISORY COUNCIL.—Sec-
tion 100215 of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Re-
form Act of 2012 (42 U.S.C. 4101a) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c)— 
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(A) in paragraph (5)(B), by striking ‘‘and’’ 
at the end; 
(B) by redesignating paragraph (6) as 
paragraph (9); and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (5) the 
following new paragraphs: 
‘‘(6) recommend to the Administrator methods 
or actions to make the flood mapping processes more 
efficient; 
‘‘(7) recommend to the Administrator methods 
or actions to minimize any cost, data, and paper-
work requirements of the flood mapping processes; 
‘‘(8) assist communities, and in particular 
smaller communities, in locating the resources re-
quired to participate in the development of flood ele-
vations and flood hazard area designations; and’’; 
and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(m) COMMUNITY FLOOD MAPS.— 
‘‘(1) STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES.—In addi-
tion to the other duties of the Council under this 
section, not later than the expiration of the 12- 
month period beginning on the date of the enact-
ment of this subsection, the Council shall rec-
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ommend to the Administrator standards and re-
quirements for chief executive officers, or entities 
designated by chief executive officers, of States and 
communities participating in the National Flood In-
surance Program to use in mapping flood hazards 
located in States and communities that choose to de-
velop alternative maps to the flood insurance rate 
maps developed by the Agency. The recommended 
standards and requirements shall include procedures 
for providing notification and appeal rights to indi-
viduals within the communities of the proposed flood 
elevation determinations. 
‘‘(2) EXEMPTION
FROM
RULEMAKING.—Until 
such time as the Administrator promulgates regula-
tions implementing paragraph (1) of this subsection, 
the Administrator may, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, adopt policies and procedures nec-
essary to implement such paragraphs without under-
going notice and comment rulemaking and without 
conducting regulatory analyses otherwise required by 
statute, regulation, or executive order.’’. 
(b) FEMA IDENTIFICATION
OF
FLOOD-PRONE 
AREAS.—Subsection (a) of section 1360 of the National 
Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4101(a)) is 
amended— 
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