THE RIEGLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT and
REGULATORY IMPROVEMENT ACT of 1994
PUBLIC LAW # 103-325
CONFERENCE REPORT *
The following wording is included in the Joint Senate-House Conference Committee Report. This wording accompanies the final bill ,which was passed by both Houses of Congress, and signed into law by the President, September 23, 1994.
"Conferees are further aware that new technology may provide feasible means of floodproofing residential structures in flood-prone areas. The Conferees expect FEMA to be accommodating to the testing of such technologies, so long as such testing is performed using uninhabitable structures that are dismantled after testing is complete.
To the extent such technologies are shown to be equivalent in effect to permanent elevation of a structure through the use of pilings or technologies permitted under current regulations or practices, the Conferees expect FEMA to consider making flood insurance available for such structures under the same terms and conditions as if the structure were permanently elevated. In determining if a technology is equivalent in effect to permanent elevation of a structure, the Conferees expect FEMA will review the extent to which the new technology would provide levels of protection of the structure from flood damage and levels of protection for personnel safety that are equivalent to levels provided by permanent elevations through existing technologies, as well as to the extent which levels of active human maintenance involved in the new technology are equivalent to those involved in permanent elevation of the structure through existing technologies"
* Report 103-652, Subtitle D, Section 553, Page 201,
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