Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

44 CFR Part 67

[Docket No. FEMA-P-7907]

Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations

AGENCY:

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 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, 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 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 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.

Executive Order 13132, Federalism.

This rule involves no policies that have federalism implications under Executive Order 13132.

Executive Order 12988, Civil Justice Reform.

This rule meets the applicable standards of Executive Order 12988.

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]

1. 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.

§ 67.4

[Amended]

2. The tables published under the authority of § 67.4 are proposed to be amended as follows:

State

City/town/county

Source of flooding

Location

# Depth in feet above ground

*Elevation in feet (NGVD)

Existing

Modified

OH

Madison County (Unincorporated Areas)

Big Darby Creek

Approximately 300 feet downstream of Conrail

*None

*917

Approximately 100 feet upstream of Plain City-Dublin Road/State Route 161

*None

*919

Sugar Run

At confluence with Big Darby Creek

*None

*911

Approximately 300 feet downstream of Plain City-Dublin Road/State Route 161

*None

*918

Maps are available for inspection at 1 North Main Street, Room 208, London, Ohio.

Send comments to The Honorable David Dhume, Madison County Commissioner, 1 North Main Street, Post Office Box 618, London, Ohio 43140-0618.

OH

Plain City (Village) Madison and Union Counties

Big Darby Creek

Approximately 1,000 feet downstream of Conrail

*921

*917

Approximately 300 feet downstream of Noteman Road/State Route 23

*926

*921

Sugar Run

At the northern Corporate Limit

*None

*920

Approximately 350 feet downstream of southern Corporate Limit

*None

*919

Maps are available for inspection at 213 South Chillicothe Street, Plain City, Ohio.

Send comments to Mr. John Jordan, Jr., Public Works Supervisor, Village of Plain City, 213 South Chillicothe Street, Plain City, Ohio 43064.

OH

Union County (Unincorporated Areas).

Big Darby Creek (Near the Village of Plain City)

Approximately 3,250 feet downstream of Noteman Road

*None

*919

Approximately 7,250 feet upstream of U.S. 42

*None

*930

Maps are available for inspection at 233 West Sixth, Marysville, Ohio.

Send comments to The Honorable Gary Lee, Chairman, Union County Board of Commissioners, 233 West Sixth, Marysville, Ohio 43040.

WI

Pleasant Prairie (Village) Kenosha County

Des Plaines River

At Wisconsin/Illinois State Line

*674

*676

Just upstream of 120th Avenue

*None

*679

Unnamed Tributary No. 1 to Des Plaines River

At Wisconsin/Illinois State Line.

*None

*676

Approximately 11,000 feet upstream of Wisconsin/Illinois State Line

*None

*713

Unnamed Tributary No. 1A to Des Plaines River

At confluence with Unnamed Tributary No. 1 to Des Plaines River

*None

*677

At Wisconsin/Illinois State Line

*None

*717

Unamed Tributary No. 1B to Des Plaines River

At confluence with Unnamed Tributary No. 1 to Des Plaines River

*None

*684

Just downstream of confluence of Unnamed Tributary No. 1C to Des Plaines River

*None

*699

Unnamed Tributary No. 1C to Des Plaines River

At confluence with Unnamed Tributary 1B to Des Plaines River

*None

*699

Approximately 1.5 miles upstream of confluence with Unnamed Tributary 1B to Des Plaines River

*None

*737

Unnamed Tributary No. 1E to Des Plaines River

Approximately 6,850 feet upstream of the confluence with Des Plaines River

*None

*677

Approximately 2,757 feet upstream of U.S. Interstate 94

*None

*725

Unnamed Tributary No. 1F to Des Plaines River

Approximately 400 feet upstream of the confluence with Unnamed Tributary No. 1E to Des Plaines River

*None

*692

Unnamed Tributary No. 1F to Des Plaines River

Approximately 1,600 feet upstream of the confluence with Unnamed Tributary No. 1E to Des Plaines River

*None

*707

Unnamed Tributary No. 2 to Des Plaines River

At the confluence with Unnamed Tributary No. 1E to Des Plaines River

*None

*676

Approximately 5,100 feet upstream of U.S. Interstate 94

*None

*749

*National Geodetic Vertical Datum.

Maps are available for inspection at the Village Office, 9915 39th Avenue, Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin.

Send comments to The Honorable John P. Steinbrink, Village President, Village Office, 9915 39th Avenue, Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin 53158.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 83.100, “Flood Insurance.”)

Dated: January 4, 2006.

David I. Maurstad,

Acting Director, Mitigation Division, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.

[FR Doc. E6-2693 Filed 2-24-06; 8:45 am]

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