Flood elevation determinations: Various States,
[Federal Register: December 13, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 238)]
[Proposed Rules]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
44 CFR Part 67
[Docket No. FEMA-P-7665]
Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate, Department of Homeland Security.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
SUMMARY: Technical information or comments are requested on the proposed Base (1% annual-chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) and proposed BFE modifications for the communities listed below. The BFEs and modified BFEs are the basis for the floodplain management measures that the community is required either to adopt or to show evidence of being already in effect in order to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
DATES: The comment period is ninety (90) days following the second publication of this proposed rule in a newspaper of local circulation in each community.
ADDRESSES: The proposed BFEs for each community are available for inspection at the office of the Chief Executive Officer of each community. The respective addresses are listed in the table below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doug Bellomo, P.E., Hazard Identification Section, Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646-2903.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Federal Emergency Management Agency makes the final determinations listed below for the modified BFEs for each community listed. These modified elevations have been published in newspapers of local circulation and ninety (90) days have elapsed since that publication. The Mitigation Division Director of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate has resolved any appeals resulting from this notification.
These proposed BFEs and modified BFEs, together with the floodplain management criteria required by 44 CFR 60.3, are the minimum that are required. They should not be construed to mean that the community must change any existing ordinances that are more stringent in their floodplain management requirements. The community may at any time enact stricter requirements of its own, or pursuant to policies established by other Federal, State, or regional entities. These proposed elevations are used to meet the floodplain management requirements of the NFIP and are also used to calculate the appropriate flood insurance premium rates for new buildings built after these elevations are made final, and for the contents in these buildings.
National Environmental Policy Act
This proposed rule is categorically excluded from the requirements of 44 CFR part 10, Environmental Consideration. No environmental impact assessment has been prepared.
Regulatory Flexibility Act
The Mitigation Division Director of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate certifies that this rule is exempt from the requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act because modified base flood elevations are required by the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 4105, and are required to maintain community eligibility in the NFIP. No regulatory flexibility analysis has been prepared.
Regulatory Classification
This proposed rule is not a significant regulatory action under the criteria of Section 3(f) of Executive Order 12866 of September 30, 1993, Regulatory Planning and Review, 58 FR 51735.
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Executive Order 12612, Federalism
This proposed rule involves no policies that have federalism implications under Executive Order 12612, Federalism, dated October 26, 1987.
Executive Order 12778, Civil Justice Reform
This proposed rule meets the applicable standards of Section 2(b)(2) of Executive Order 12778.
List of Subjects in 44 CFR Part 67
Administrative practice and procedure, flood insurance, reporting and record keeping requirements.
Accordingly, 44 CFR part 67 is proposed to be amended as follows:
PART 67--[AMENDED]
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The authority citation for part 67 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.; Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978, 3 CFR, 1978 Comp., p. 329; E.O. 12127, 44 FR 19367, 3 CFR, 1979 Comp., p. 376.
Sec. 67.4 [Amended]
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The tables published under the authority of Sec. 67.4 are proposed to be amended as follows:
[sdiam] Elevation in Source of flooding and location of referenced
feet (NAVD) elevation
Communities affected Existing Modified
Alligator Bayou:
At the confluence with Flat River.......... [sdiam] 163 [sdiam] 160 City of Bossier City.
Approximately 1,550 feet downstream of U.S. [sdiam] 163 [sdiam] 162 ..................................... Highway 79/80 Eastbound. Benoit Bayou:
At the confluence with Macks Bayou Segment [sdiam] 166 [sdiam] 168 City of Bossier City, Bossier Parish G and Macks Bayou Segment H.
(Unincorporated Areas).
Approximately 12,520 feet upstream of
None [sdiam] 173 ..................................... Brownlee Road. Bossier Ditch:
Approximately 60 feet upstream of the
[sdiam] 160 [sdiam] 159 City of Bossier City. confluence with Cooper Bayou and Macks Bayou Segment F.
Approximately 180 feet upstream of Benton
None [sdiam] 170 ..................................... Road. Fifi Bayou:
Just upstream of U.S. Interstate 20........
None [sdiam] 174 Bossier Parish (Unincorporated Areas).
Approximately 9,000 feet upstream of
None [sdiam] 190 ..................................... Winfield Road. Flat River:
Just upstream of State Route 527...........
None [sdiam] 154 City of Bossier City, Bossier Parish (Unincorporated Areas).
Approximately 500 feet upstream of U.S. [sdiam] 165 [sdiam] 164 ..................................... Interstate 220 Westbound. Flat River Drainage Canal:
Just upstream of Coy Road.................. [sdiam] 166 [sdiam] 165 City of Bossier, City Bossier Parish (Unincorporated Areas).
Approximately 400 feet upstream of Airline [sdiam] 173 [sdiam] 174 ..................................... Drive. Herndon Ditch:
...........
At the confluence with Flat River.......... [sdiam] 156 [sdiam] 158 City of Bossier City, Bossier Parish (Unincorporated Areas).
Approximately 1,300 feet downstream of the [sdiam] 157 [sdiam] 158 ..................................... confluence of Macks Bayou Segment B. Lake Bistineau: Entire shoreline within Bossier
None [sdiam] 148 Bossier Parish (Unincorporated Parish.
Areas).City of Bossier City, Bossier Parish (Unincorporated Areas). Macks Bayou Segment A:
At the confluence with Flat River.......... [sdiam] 156 [sdiam] 157 City of Bossier City.
Approximately 25 feet upstream of Golden [sdiam] 156 [sdiam] 157 Meadows Drive. Macks Bayou Segment E:
Approximately 1,025 feet upstream of the [sdiam] 162 [sdiam] 163 City of Bossier City. confluence with Bossier Ditch.
Approximately 2,010 feet upstream of the [sdiam] 162 [sdiam] 163 ..................................... confluence with Bossier Ditch. Macks Bayou Segment G:
Approximately 650 feet upstream of Kansas [sdiam] 166 [sdiam] 167 City of Bossier City. City Southern Railway.
At the confluence of Benoit Bayou and
[sdiam] 166 [sdiam] 168 ..................................... junction with Macks Bayou Segment H. Macks Bayou Segment H:
Approximately 190 feet upstream of the [sdiam] 165 [sdiam] 166 City of Bossier City, Bossier Parish confluence with Flat River.
(Unincorporated Areas).
At the confluence of Benoit Bayou and
[sdiam] 166 [sdiam] 168 ..................................... divergence of Macks Bayou Segment G. Racetrack Bayou:
At the confluence with Willow Chute........
None [sdiam] 166 City of Bossier City.
At U.S. Interstate 220 Westbound and
[sdiam] 166 [sdiam] 168 ..................................... divergence from Macks Bayou Segment H. Red Chute Bayou:
Approximately 12,400 feet upstream of Smith
None [sdiam] 154 City of Bossier City, Bossier Parish Road.
(Unincorporated Areas).
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Approximately 4,050 feet upstream of
[sdiam] 165 [sdiam] 169 ..................................... Dogwood Trail.
City of Bossier City
Maps are available for inspection at City Hall, 620 Benton Road, Bossier City, Louisiana.
Send comments to The Honorable George Dement, Mayor, City of Bossier City, City Hall, 620 Benton Road, Bossier City, Louisiana 71111.
Bossier Parish (Unincorporated Areas)
Maps are available for inspection at the Police Jury Office, 204 Burt Boulevard, Room 108, Benton, Louisiana.
Send comments to The Honorable Rick Avery, Bossier Parish President, P.O. Box 70, Benton, Louisiana 71006.
Carter Branch:
Approximately 275 feet above confluence [sdiam] 943 [sdiam] 944 City of Carthage, Jasper County with Mill Race.
(Unincorporated Areas).
Approximately 5,030 feet upstream of East
None [sdiam] ..................................... 13th Street.
1,020 City Branch:
Approximately 500 feet upstream of the [sdiam] 935 [sdiam] 936 Jasper County (Unincorporated Areas). confluence with Spring River.
Approximately 330 feet upstream of Case
None [sdiam] City of Carthage. Street.
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Addresses
Jasper County (Unincorporated Areas)
Maps are available for inspection at Tri-State Engineering, Inc., 1102 West 9th Street, Joplin, Missouri.
Send comments to The Honorable Chuck Surface, Presiding Commissioner, 302 South Main Street, Carthage, Missouri 64836.
City of Carthage
Maps are available for inspection at the Engineer's Office, 623 East 7th Street, Carthage, Missouri.
Send comments to The Honorable Kenneth Johnson, Mayor, City of Carthage, 326 Grant Street, Carthage, Missouri 64836.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 83.100, ``Flood Insurance'')
Dated: December 7, 2004. David I. Maurstad, Acting Director, Mitigation Division, Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate.
[FR Doc. 04-27246 Filed 12-10-04; 8:45 am]
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