Public Law 109-65

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[109th Congress Public Law 65]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


[DOCID: f:publ065.109]

[[Page 119 STAT. 1998]]

Public Law 109-65
109th Congress

                                 An Act


 
To temporarily increase the borrowing authority of the Federal Emergency 
    Management Agency for carrying out the national flood insurance 
            program. <<NOTE: Sept. 20, 2005 -  [H.R. 3669]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress <<NOTE: National Flood Insurance 
Program Enhanced Borrowing Authority Act of 2005. 42 USC 4001 
note.>> assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Flood Insurance Program 
Enhanced Borrowing Authority Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN BORROWING AUTHORITY.

    The first sentence of subsection (a) of section 1309 of the National 
Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4016(a)) is amended by inserting 
before the period at the end the following: ``; except that, through 
September 30, 2008, clause (2) of this sentence shall be applied by 
substituting `$3,500,000,000' for `$1,500,000,000' ''.

    Approved September 20, 2005.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 3669:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 151 (2005):
            Sept. 8, considered and passed House.
            Sept. 12, considered and passed Senate.

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