NU Online News Service, Sept. 17, 12:42 p.m. EDT

WASHINGTON–With the Sept. 30 expiration of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in sight, the property and casualty insurance industry is moving on several fronts to ensure that the program is sustained, if only on a temporary basis, into the next Congress before it expires again.

The most likely vehicle for an extension is the Homeland Security Department's appropriations bill, according to officials of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA).

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