1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Flood Mapping Modernization and Homeowner Empowerment Pilot Program Act of 2018 . 2. Flood Mapping Modernization and Homeowner Empowerment Pilot Program (a) In General The Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall carry out a pilot program to make grants to units of local government to enhance the mapping of urban flooding and associated property damage and the availability of such mapped data to homeowners, businesses, and units of local government to enable them to minimize the risk of such flooding. (b) Objectives Amounts from grants made under the pilot program under this section may be used only to carry out activities to meet the following objectives: (1) To develop a methodology for assessing urban flood risk through the deployment of technology-based mapping tools that are easily understandable by the public and effectively convey information regarding the level of flood risk. (2) To provide structure-specific projections of annual chance flood frequency. (3) To provide structure-based flood-risk assessments. (4) To provide urban flood-risk mitigation program design. (5) To incorporate information regarding climate trends into urban flooding risk assessments. (6) To make the information described in this subsection publicly available on the Internet through a web-based portal so as to increase transparency regarding homeowner flood risks. (c) Eligible recipients (1) In general Grants under the pilot program under this section may be made only to units of general local government located in a urbanized areas, as such term is used by the Bureau of the Census of the Department of Commerce, having populations exceeding 50,000 or to stormwater management authorities of such units of general local government. (2) One-time grants A grant under the pilot program under this section may not be made to— (A) any unit of general local governmental, or stormwater management authority of a unit of general government, that has previously received a grant