02/25/2013
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"If a town believes the maps are wrong and it does not have the money to hire the very expensive engineering consultants the way Quincy did, what happens to those towns?"
"You are telling me that you would fix it and that Quincy did not need to spend $650,000 for the independent engineering reviews?"
"The accuracy of flood maps should not be based on whether a community can scrape together the money for a very expensive independent review."
"Many of us worked together to draft the bipartisan Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act, which gave homeowners some relief on the dramatic increases for flood insurance."