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Scaled down bill scraps US flood extension

16 February 2010

A piece of US employment legislation introduced in the US senate that included an extension of the National Flood Insurance Programme has been scaled back to a version that does not include the NFIP.

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A piece of US employment legislation introduced in the US senate that included an extension of the National Flood Insurance Programme (NFIP) has been scaled back to a version that does...


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