The Federal Emergency Management Agency is objecting in vehement language to the lawsuit filed by the state of Mississippi that seeks to delay the immediate implementation of flood insurance rate hikes.
Mississippi argues in its suit that it is an aggrieved party. It argues it has jurisdiction to file the lawsuit because the affordability study that the state alleges that FEMA must provide before implementing the rate hikes must go to the states.
However, FEMA, in a brief filed late Monday with a Federal District Court in Gulfport, Miss., says the report Mississippi is demanding is to go to Congress, “not to plaintiff.”
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