The National Flood Insurance Program: Status and Remaining Issues for Congress

[摘要] This report provides an analysis of flood risk management, summarizes major challenges facing the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and outlines key reforms in the recently enacted Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012. The report also identifies and presents some key remaining flood management issues for congressional considerations, and it concludes with a discussion of relevant policy options for the future financial management of flood hazards in the United States.

[发布日期] 2012-12-10 [发布机构] Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

[关键词] Emergency management;Flood insurance;Finance