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On the recordJuly 15, 2010
This is really an issue of fairness--an issue of fairness for property owners. You've got the Federal Government coming onto your property, telling you that you have to purchase flood insurance because you're now designated within the map. When you find FEMA to be wrong, that payment shouldn't be incurred by you, the property owner, but it should be reimbursed by FEMA. It's just that simple. This is a taking. And the Federal Government shouldn't be in the business of taking property, which is what they're doing in this case, in the form of the expenses that are incurred by the homeowners. This has impacted thousands of Americans. And it's wrong that the Federal Government is making them pay the price to challenge the Federal Government.
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Steve Driehaus
Ohio
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The speaker addresses fairness in flood insurance requirements imposed by the Federal Government on property owners.

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