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      "text": "A regulated lending institution may not make, increase, extend, or renew any loan secured by improved real estate or a mobile home located or to be located in an area identified by the FEMA Administrator as having special flood hazards unless the building or mobile home is covered by flood insurance for the term of the loan."
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