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Establishes a coordinated federal program and interagency committee to improve flood resilience, data sharing, standards, and budget coordination across agencies.
Official title: To establish a National Flood Impact Reduction and Resilience Program to achieve major measurable reductions in the losses of life and property from floods through a coordinated Federal effort, and for other purposes.
Introduced August 20, 2026 by Donald Sternoff Beyer · Last progress August 20, 2026
The bill increases federal science, coordination, funding, and nature‑based measures to reduce flood risk and property loss, at the tradeoff of higher federal spending, potential displacement, and new compliance and administrative costs for some communities.
Residents (homeowners, renters, urban and rural communities) will get better flood risk data, mapping, and predictions that enable earlier warnings, improved emergency planning, and reduced deaths, injuries, and property losses.
Local and state governments and their communities will receive federal funding, technical assistance, and support to plan and build flood‑resilient infrastructure and, where needed, relocate high‑risk properties, lowering future flood damage.
Communities will be able to access grants, contracts, and technical help to adopt nature‑based and nonstructural flood mitigation (e.g., wetlands, coastal restoration), providing flood protection along with environmental co‑benefits.
Taxpayers could face higher federal spending to implement the program, creating budgetary pressures, tradeoffs with other programs, or the need for additional revenue.
Homeowners in high‑risk flood zones may be displaced or required to sell/abandon property as relocations or buyouts occur, producing financial hardship and community disruption.
New standards, voluntary codes, and planning or construction requirements could raise compliance and building/retrofit costs for homeowners, developers, and utilities.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Creates a federal program to reduce loss of life and property from floods by coordinating research, standards, mapping, technical assistance, and outreach across federal agencies and non‑federal partners. It forms an interagency committee led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, requires strategic and management plans, and mandates interagency budget coordination and data‑sharing agreements. Establishes a non‑federal advisory committee to review science and program effectiveness, and requires participating agencies to include itemized Program activity descriptions in their OMB budget requests to promote transparency and interagency resource commitments.