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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1316 
To provide for appropriate notification of communities and homeowners of 
establishment of flood elevations for purposes of the National Flood 
Insurance Program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 4, 2009 
Mr. SENSENBRENNER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To provide for appropriate notification of communities and 
homeowners of establishment of flood elevations for pur-
poses of the National Flood Insurance Program. 
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 ‘‘Flood Elevation Notifi-
cation Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. NOTIFICATION OF ESTABLISHMENT OF FLOOD ELE-
VATIONS. 
Section 1363 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 4104) is amended by striking the section 
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designation and all that follows through the end of sub-
section (a) and inserting the following: 
‘‘SEC. 1363. (a) In establishing projected flood ele-
vations for land use purposes with respect to any commu-
nity pursuant to section 1361, the Director shall first pro-
pose such determinations— 
‘‘(1) by providing the chief executive officer of 
each community affected by the proposed elevations, 
by certified mail, with a return receipt requested, 
notice of the elevations, including a copy of the maps 
for the elevations for such community and a state-
ment explaining the process under this section to ap-
peal for changes in such elevations; 
‘‘(2) by causing notice of such elevations to be 
published in the Federal Register, which notice shall 
include information sufficient to identify the ele-
vation determinations and the communities affected, 
information explaining how to obtain copies of the 
elevations, and a statement explaining the process 
under this section to appeal for changes in the ele-
vations; 
‘‘(3) by publishing in a prominent local news-
paper the elevations, a description of the appeals 
process for flood determinations, and the mailing ad-
dress and telephone number of a person the owner 
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may contact for more information or to initiate an 
appeal; and 
‘‘(4) by providing written notification, by first 
class mail, to each owner of real property affected by 
the proposed elevations of— 
‘‘(A) the status of such property, both 
prior to and after the effective date of the pro-
posed determination, with respect to flood zone 
and flood insurance requirements under this 
Act and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 
1973; 
‘‘(B) the process under this section to ap-
peal a flood elevation determination; and 
‘‘(C) the mailing address and phone num-
ber of a person the owner may contact for more 
information or to initiate an appeal.’’. 
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