9. 42 U.S.C. §5170c; Federal Emergency Management Agency, Hazard Mitigation Assistance, Property Acquisition Buyouts, http://www.fema.gov/application-development-process/hazard-mitigation-assistance-property-acquisition-buyouts. Communities is a broad word used in FEMA's guidelines and can be the municipality or a smaller entity within a municipality.
10. Federal Emergency Management Agency, Hazard Mitigation Assistance Unified Guidance: Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program, Flood Mitigation Assistance Program, Repetitive Flood Claims Program, Severe Repetitive Loss Program, pages 83-90 (2010).
11. Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013, HR 152-36. FEMA's existing NEPA regulations are found at 44 C.F.R. Part 10.
12. Federal Emergency Management Agency, Hazard Mitigation Assistance, Property Acquisition Buyouts, http://www.fema.gov/application-development-process/hazard-mitigation-assistance-property-acquisition-buyouts.
13. Federal Emergency Management Agency, Hazard Mitigation Assistance Unified Guidance: Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program, Flood Mitigation Assistance Program, Repetitive Flood Claims Program, Severe Repetitive Loss Program, page 89 (2010).
14. Id. at 81, 85, 96.
15. 42 USC §5107c(b)(2)(B)(ii); Federal Emergency Management Agency, Hazard Mitigation Assistance Unified Guidance: Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program, Flood Mitigation Assistance Program, Repetitive Flood Claims Program, Severe Repetitive Loss Program, page 75, 94-97 (2010).
16. Sierra Club v. United States Army Corps of Engineers, 446 F.3d at 812.
17. Id. at 811. The Sierra Club also asserted that the Corps' issuance of a finding of no significant impact (thus that no environmental impact statement was required) violated NEPA.
18. The court, however, allowed the NEPA claim to go forward.
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