[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 44, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 44CFR59.3]

[Page 244]
 
              TITLE 44--EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE
 
             CHAPTER I--FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
 
PART 59--GENERAL PROVISIONS--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 59.3  Emergency program.

    The 1968 Act required a risk study to be undertaken for each 
community before it could become eligible for the sale of flood 
insurance. Since this requirement resulted in a delay in providing 
insurance, the Congress, in section 408 of the Housing and Urban 
Development Act of 1969 (Pub. L. 91-152, December 24, 1969), established 
an Emergency Flood Insurance Program as a new section 1336 of the 
National Flood Insurance Act (42 U.S.C. 4056) to permit the early sale 
of insurance in flood-prone communities. The emergency program does not 
affect the requirement that a community must adopt adequate flood plain 
management regulations pursuant to part 60 of this subchapter but 
permits insurance to be sold before a study is conducted to determine 
risk premium rates for the community. The program still requires upon 
the effective date of a FIRM the charging of risk premium rates for all 
new construction and substantial improvements and for higher limits of 
coverage for existing structures.

[43 FR 7140, Feb. 17, 1978. Redesignated at 44 FR 31177, May 31, 1979, 
and amended at 48 FR 44543, Sept. 29, 1983]