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Designated area 

Designation Classification 

Date Type Date Type 

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Yakima County ........................................................................ 11/15/90 Nonattainment ............... 11/15/90 Moderate. 

The area bounded on the south by a line from UTM coordinate 694000mW, 5157000mN, west to 

681000mW, 5157000mN, thence north along a line to 

coordinate 681000mN, 5172000mN, thence east to 

694000mW, 5172000mN, thence south to the beginning coordinate 694000mW, 5157000mN, excluding 

the area within the exterior boundary of the Yakama 

Indian Reservation 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

44 CFR Part 64 

[Docket No. FEMA–7865] 

Suspension of Community Eligibility

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Emergency 

Preparedness and Response Directorate, 

Department of Homeland Security.

ACTION: Final rule.

SUMMARY: This rule identifies 

communities, where the sale of flood 

insurance has been authorized under 

the National Flood Insurance Program 

(NFIP), that are scheduled for 

suspension on the effective dates listed 

within this rule because of 

noncompliance with the floodplain 

management requirements of the 

program. If the Federal Emergency 

Management Agency (FEMA) receives 

documentation that the community has 

adopted the required floodplain 

management measures prior to the 

effective suspension date given in this 

rule, the suspension will not occur and 

a notice of this will be provided by 

publication in the Federal Register on a 

subsequent date.

EFFECTIVE DATES: The effective date of 

each community’s scheduled 

suspension is the third date (‘‘Susp.’’) 

listed in the third column of the 

following tables.

ADDRESSES: If you wish to determine 

whether a particular community was 

suspended on the suspension date, 

contact the appropriate FEMA Regional 

Office or the NFIP servicing contractor.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michael M. Grimm, Mitigation Division, 

500 C Street, SW.; Room 412, 

Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646–2878.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NFIP 

enables property owners to purchase 

flood insurance which is generally not 

otherwise available. In return, 

communities agree to adopt and 

administer local floodplain management 

aimed at protecting lives and new 

construction from future flooding. 

Section 1315 of the National Flood 

Insurance Act of 1968, as amended, 42 

U.S.C. 4022, prohibits flood insurance 

coverage as authorized under the 

National Flood Insurance Program, 42 

U.S.C. 4001 et seq.; unless an 

appropriate public body adopts 

adequate floodplain management 

measures with effective enforcement 

measures. The communities listed in 

this document no longer meet that 

statutory requirement for compliance 

with program regulations, 44 CFR part 

59 et seq. Accordingly, the communities 

will be suspended on the effective date 

in the third column. As of that date, 

flood insurance will no longer be 

available in the community. However, 

some of these communities may adopt 

and submit the required documentation 

of legally enforceable floodplain 

management measures after this rule is 

published but prior to the actual 

suspension date. These communities 

will not be suspended and will continue 

their eligibility for the sale of insurance. 

A notice withdrawing the suspension of 

the communities will be published in 

the Federal Register. 

In addition, the Federal Emergency 

Management Agency has identified the 

special flood hazard areas in these 

communities by publishing a Flood 

Insurance Rate Map (FIRM). The date of 

the FIRM if one has been published, is 

indicated in the fourth column of the 

table. No direct Federal financial 

assistance (except assistance pursuant to 

the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 

and Emergency Assistance Act not in 

connection with a flood) may legally be 

provided for construction or acquisition 

of buildings in the identified special 

flood hazard area of communities not 

participating in the NFIP and identified 

for more than a year, on the Federal 

Emergency Management Agency’s 

initial flood insurance map of the 

community as having flood-prone areas 

(section 202(a) of the Flood Disaster 

Protection Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 

4106(a), as amended). This prohibition 

against certain types of Federal 

assistance becomes effective for the 

communities listed on the date shown 

in the last column. The Administrator 

finds that notice and public comment 

under 5 U.S.C. 553(b) are impracticable 

and unnecessary because communities 

listed in this final rule have been 

adequately notified. 

Each community receives a 6-month, 

90-day, and 30-day notification letter 

addressed to the Chief Executive Officer 

that the community will be suspended 

unless the required floodplain 

management measures are met prior to 

the effective suspension date. Since 

these notifications have been made, this 

final rule may take effect within less 

than 30 days. 

National Environmental Policy Act 

This rule is categorically excluded 

from the requirements of 44 CFR Part 

10, Environmental Considerations. No 

environmental impact assessment has 

been prepared. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

The Administrator has determined 

that this rule is exempt from the 

requirements of the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act because the National 

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Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as 

amended, 42 U.S.C. 4022, prohibits 

flood insurance coverage unless an 

appropriate public body adopts 

adequate floodplain management 

measures with effective enforcement 

measures. The communities listed no 

longer comply with the statutory 

requirements, and after the effective 

date, flood insurance will no longer be 

available in the communities unless 

they take remedial action.

Regulatory Classification 

This final 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. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

This rule does not involve any 

collection of information for purposes of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.

Executive Order 12612, Federalism 

This rule involves no policies that 

have federalism implications under 

Executive Order 12612, Federalism, 

October 26, 1987, 3 CFR, 1987 Comp.; 

p. 252. 

Executive Order 12778, Civil Justice 

Reform 

This rule meets the applicable 

standards of section 2(b)(2) of Executive 

Order 12778, October 25, 1991, 56 FR 

55195, 3 CFR, 1991 Comp.; p. 309.

List of Subjects in 44 CFR Part 64 

Flood insurance, Floodplains.

■ Accordingly, 44 CFR part 64 is 

amended as follows:

PART 64—[AMENDED]

■ 1. The authority citation for Part 64 

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.

§ 64.6 [Amended]

■ 2. The tables published under the 

authority of § 64.6 are amended as 

follows:

State and location Community

No. 

Effective date authorization/cancellation of 

sale of flood insurance in community 

Current effective

map date 

Date certain

Federal assistance no longer 

available in special flood hazard 

areas 

Region VII

Kansas: 

Manhattan, City of, Riley County and 

Pottawattamie County.

200300 January 3, 1974, Emerg; April 1, 1982, 

Reg; February 4, 2005, Susp.

Feb. 4, 2005 ..... Feb. 4, 2005. 

Odgen, City of, Riley County ........................ 200301 June 26, 1975, Emerg; October 15, 1981, 

Reg; February 4, 2005, Susp.

......do ............... Do. 

Riley County, Unincorporated Areas ............ 200298 June 23, 1975, Emerg; April 1, 1982, Reg; 

February 4, 2005, Susp.

......do ............... Do. 

Nebraska: Battle Creek, Madison County .... 310145 March 7, 1975, Emerg; September 30, 

1987, Reg; February 4, 2005, Susp.

......do ............... Do. 

Madison County, Unincorporated Areas ...... 310455 July 25, 1977, Emerg; January 1, 1987, 

Reg; February 4, 2005, Susp.

......do ............... Do. 

Code for reading third column: Emerg.—Emergency; Reg.—Regular; Susp.—Suspension. 

Dated: February 1, 2005. 

David I. Maurstad, 

Acting Mitigation Division Director, 

Emergency Preparedness and Response 

Directorate.

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BILLING CODE 9110–12–P

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 54 

[WC Docket No. 02–60; FCC 04–289] 

Rural Health Care Support Mechanism

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission.

ACTION: Final rule; petition for 

reconsideration. 

SUMMARY: In this document, we modify 

our rules to improve the effectiveness of 

the rural health care universal service 

support mechanism. Specifically, in this 

Report and Order, we change the 

Commission’s definition of rural for the 

purposes of the rural health care 

support mechanism because the 

definition currently used by the 

Commission is no longer being updated 

with new Census Bureau data. We also 

revise our rules to expand funding for 

mobile rural health care services by 

subsidizing the difference between the 

rate for satellite service and the rate for 

an urban wireline service with a similar 

bandwidth. On reconsideration, we 

permit rural health care providers in 

states that are entirely rural, such as 

American Samoa, to receive support for 

advanced telecommunications and 

information services under section 

254(h)(2)(A).

DATES: Effective April 8, 2005 except for 

§§ 54.609(e) and 54.621(c) which 

contain information collection 

requirements that have not been 

approved by the Office of Management 

Budget (OMB). The Commission will 

publish a document in the Federal 

Register announcing the effective date 

of those sections.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Regina Brown at (202) 418–0792 or 

Dana Bradford at (202) 418–1932, 

Wireline Competition Bureau, 

Telecommunications Access Policy 

Division, TTY (202) 418–0484.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

summary of the Commission’s Report 

and Order, and Order on 

Reconsideration, in WC Docket No. 02–

60 released on December 17, 2004. The 

full text of this document is available for 

public inspection during regular 

business hours in the FCC Reference 

Center, Room CY–A257, 445 12th Street, 

SW., Washington, DC 20554. A 

companion Further Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking in WC Docket No. 02–60 

was also released on December 17, 2004. 

I. Introduction 

1. In this Report and Order and Order 

on Reconsideration (Second Report and 

Order), we modify our rules to improve 

the effectiveness of the rural health care 

universal service support mechanism. 

The mechanism provides discounts to 

rural health care providers to access 

modern telecommunications for medical 

and health maintenance purposes. 

Specifically, in this Second Report and