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PUBLIC LAW 100-000—MMMM. DD, 1988

102 STAT. 3278

PUBLIC LAW 100-628—NOV. 7, 1988

made effective by section 101(g) of Public Law 99-500 and Public Law 99-591 (100 Stat. 1783-242 and 3341-242) and later by section 515(i) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 (101 Stat. 1934), is amended to read as if the later amendment had not been enacted. SEC. 1085. NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION.

Section 604(a)(6) of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 8103(a)(6)) is amended by striking the second of the two periods at the end. SEC. 1086. NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM.

(a) CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR.—Section 1306(c)(l)(A) of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4013(c)(l)(A)) is amended by striking "Following" each place it appears in clauses (i) and (ii) and inserting "following^'. 0)) (CORRECTION OF CROSS-REFERENCE.—Subsections (b) and (c) of

section 1370 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4121) are each amended by striking "paragraph (1)" and inserting "subsection (a)(D". (c) SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.—

(1) FINDINGS.—The 0)ngress finds that— (A) the Sacramento, California, area has had in place a flood control system that has been classified as protecting against floods with recurrence intervals of up to 125 years; (B) local governmental entities in the Sacramento metropolitan area have been working diligently with the State of California, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Bureau of Reclamation since the occurrence of a heavy storm in 1986 to formulate and implement a comprehensive plan to provide high level, efficient flood protection to the region; (C) the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in response to studies by the Army (Ik)rps of Engineers indicating increased flood vulnerability attributable to increased estimates of the frequency of large storms in the region, has begun a process of re-analyzing the flood risks in the Sacramento area, and this analysis is likely to result in substantially increased flood elevation requirements under the National Flood Insurance Program; (D) changed flood elevation requirements attributable to a change in flood elevation determinations by the Director of the Federal Emergency Mans^ement Agency will cause severe disruption in the Sacramento r ^ o n and could precipitate the break-up of the political, institutional, and economic relationships sustaining the high level, comprehensive, flood protection effort; (E) failure to implement a comprehensive plan would leave substantial portions of the Sacramento area without necessary flood protection, and, further, could impose on the Federal Government various, substantial costs related to emergency responses and damage claims in the event of a major flood; (F) the Federal purposes embodied in the National Flood Insurance Program to minimize development in flood plains, to minimize damages caused by floods, and to reduce requirements for costly flood protection projects remain valid for the Sacramento metropolitan area, and impose