An amendment numbered 9 printed in House Report 111-537 to require FEMA to notify a local television and radio station of proposed flood elevation determinations in addition to the current requirement of publication in a prominent local newspaper. Would also require FEMA to make such notifications for communities that have not yet been issued a Letter of Final Determination through the flood insurance map modernization process at the time of enactment.

1. Adds SEC. 23. APPEALS on page 41, line 8

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   Inserted: SEC. 23. APPEALS.

   Inserted: (a) Television and Radio Announcement.--Section 1363 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4104) is amended--

   Inserted: (1) in subsection (a), by inserting after "determinations" by inserting the following: "by notifying a local television and radio station,"; and

   Inserted: (2) in the first sentence of subsection (b), by inserting before the period at the end the following: "and shall notify a local television and radio station at least once during the same 10-day period".

   Inserted: (b) Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection (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.

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