NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM.

SEC. 1086. NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM. (a) Correction of Typographical Error.— Section 1306(c)(1)(A) of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4013(c)(1)(A)) is amended by striking “Following” each place it appears in clauses (i) and (ii) and inserting “following”. (b) 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)(1)”. (c) Sacramento, California.— (1) Findings.— The Congress 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 Corps 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 Management Agency will cause severe disruption in the Sacramento region 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 impose102 STAT. 3279 upon its local governmental jurisdictions an obligation to exercise their authorities to avoid undue exposure to the dangers of floods and to voluntarily comply to the maximum extent practicable, consistent with other purposes of this subsection, with the National Flood Insurance Program standards that are anticipated to be applicable to the Sacramento area following expiration of the period set by paragraph (2); (G) the City and County of Sacramento have each provided assurances to the Congress that they will not designate any increases in urbanization beyond lands already so designated in their general plans during the period set forth in paragraph (2), and, in addition, that in the exercise of their discretion to approve new development they will give careful consideration to— (i) an evacuation-emergency response plan; (ii) mechanisms by which to attempt to provide notice to all buyers of new structures; (iii) retention of natural flood ways; and (iv) recommendations to all buyers of new structures to purchase flood insurance; (H) the City and County of Sacramento, in their discretion, reserve the authority to impose elevation or other requirements for new construction based upon best available flood data if facts indicate the necessity of doing so; and (I) maintenance of the Federal flood elevation requirements now in effect for the Sacramento area for the limited period set forth in paragraph (2) will facilitate implementation of the high level, comprehensive plan for flood protection in the Sacramento area, and is therefore in the interest of Sacramento, the public safety, and the United States. (2) Flood elevations.— Prior to the expiration of 2 years after the date on which the Secretary of the Army submits to the Congress the report on the feasibility study on Northern California Streams, American River Watershed, but not later than 4 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the provisions of the National Blood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 shall apply on the basis of flood map elevation determinations made by the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in effect as of the date of the enactment of this Act to the following areas: (A) the floodplain areas within Sutter and Sacramento Counties, California (collectively known as the “Natomas area”), which are bounded by the Sacramento River, the American River, the Natomas Cross Canal, and the flood-plain of the Natomas East Main Drainage Canal; (B) the floodplains within Sacramento County of Dry Creek, Arcade Creek, and Morrison Creek, to the extent these creeks are affected by the American and Sacramento Rivers, the American River, and the Sacramento River upstream of the City of Freeport, California; and (C) the City of West Sacramento in Yolo County, California. (3) Budget submission.— The President, in submitting his budget for fiscal year 1990, shall include a schedule for completing the study referred to in paragraph (2) as expeditiously as102 STAT. 3280 practicable and an estimate of the resources required to meet such schedule. (d) Planada, Caufornia.— The Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, a hydrological study of Miles Creek, California, to use as the basis for the establishment of revised base flood elevations in and near the community of Planada, California. Until such time as the revised base flood elevations are established, the flood insurance rate map (Community Panel No. 0601880315A) in effect on September 1, 1988, for the area in and near such community shall remain in effect.