We request that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) initiate a review into a variety of questions regarding the expansion of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to include an optional wind insurance program. The results of your review will assist congressional understanding of how such a program could be implemented and to what extent it would affect the private market.
Discussing a letter to the GAO regarding the National Flood Insurance Program.
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