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[CITE: 42USC4028]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                  CHAPTER 50--NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE
 
           SUBCHAPTER I--THE NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM
 
Sec. 4028. John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System

    (a) No new flood insurance coverage may be provided under this 
chapter on or after October 1, 1983, for any new construction or 
substantial improvements of structures located on any coastal barrier 
within the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System established 
by section 3503 of title 16. A federally insured financial institution 
may make loans secured by structures which are not eligible for flood 
insurance by reason of this section.
    (b) No new flood insurance coverage may be provided under this 
chapter after the expiration of the 1-year period beginning on November 
16, 1990, for any new construction or substantial improvements of 
structures located in any area identified and depicted on the maps 
referred to in section 3503(a) of title 16 as an area that is (1) not 
within the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System and (2) is in 
an otherwise protected area. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, new 
flood insurance coverage may be provided for structures in such 
protected areas that are used in a manner consistent with the purpose 
for which the area is protected.

(Pub. L. 90-448, title XIII, Sec. 1321, as added Pub. L. 97-35, title 
III, Sec. 341(d)(1), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 419; amended Pub. L. 97-
348, Sec. 11(a), Oct. 18, 1982, 96 Stat. 1658; Pub. L. 101-591, Sec. 9, 
Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 2938; Pub. L. 106-167, Sec. 3(c)(7), Dec. 9, 
1999, 113 Stat. 1804.)


                               Amendments

    1999--Pub. L. 106-167 amended section catchline and substituted 
``John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System'' for ``Coastal 
Barrier Resources System'' in subsecs. (a) and (b).
    1990--Pub. L. 101-591 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) 
and added subsec. (b).
    1982--Subsecs. (a) to (c). Pub. L. 97-348 struck out subsec. 
designations in subsecs. (a) and (c), in provisions of former subsec. 
(a) substituted ``on any coastal barrier within the Coastal Barrier 
Resources System established by section 3503 of title 16'' for ``on 
undeveloped coastal barriers which shall be designated by the Secretary 
of the Interior'', and struck out subsec. (b) which provided definitions 
for purposes of this section.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Oct. 1, 1981, see section 371 of Pub. L. 97-35, 
set out as a note under section 3701 of Title 12, Banks and Banking.


   Study for Designation of Undeveloped Coastal Barriers; Report and 
                       Recommendations to Congress

    Section 341(d)(2) of Pub. L. 97-35, relating to a study by the 
Secretary of the Interior for the purpose of designating the undeveloped 
coastal barriers affected by this section, and transmittal to Congress 
of a report on such study, was repealed by Pub. L. 97-348, Sec. 11(b), 
Oct. 18, 1982, 96 Stat. 1659.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 16 section 3502.
