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Scott Garrett: What this is all about, very simply, is this. Back in 1968, that is when NFIP was created, the National Flood Insurance…

On the recordJanuary 23, 2008
What this is all about, very simply, is this. Back in 1968, that is when NFIP was created, the National Flood Insurance Program, and that was done, as the chairman indicated, way back then three or four decades ago, as I guess more and more people were building homes in places maybe they shouldn't be, along coastal lines and what have you, it was just next to impossible to buy flood insurance. So Congress stepped in and created NFIP, and that allowed folks the opportunity to buy flood insurance for the first time.
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Scott Garrett
New Jersey

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Discussing the National Flood Insurance Program during a legislative session.

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