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damage to any personal, residential, or 

commercial property, if that person at 

any time has received flood disaster 

assistance that was conditional on the 

person first having obtained flood 

insurance under applicable federal law 

and the person has subsequently failed 

to obtain and maintain flood insurance 

as required under applicable federal law 

on such property. (Section 582 is selfimplementing without regulations.) This 

means that a grantee may not provide 

disaster assistance for the abovementioned repair, replacement, or 

restoration to a person who has failed to 

meet this requirement. 

(2) Section 582 also implies a 

responsibility for a grantee that receives 

CDBG disaster recovery funds or that, 

under 42 U.S.C. 5321, designates 

annually appropriated CDBG funds for 

disaster recovery. That responsibility is 

to inform property owners receiving 

disaster assistance that triggers the flood 

insurance purchase requirement that 

they have a statutory responsibility to 

notify any transferee of the requirement 

to obtain and maintain flood insurance, 

and that the transferring owner may be 

liable if he or she fails to do so. These 

requirements are described below. 

(3) Duty to notify. In the event of the 

transfer of any property described in 

paragraph d below, the transferor shall, 

not later than the date on which such 

transfer occurs, notify the transferee in 

writing of the requirements to: 

(i) Obtain flood insurance in 

accordance with applicable federal law 

with respect to such property, if the 

property is not so insured as of the date 

on which the property is transferred; 

and 

(ii) Maintain flood insurance in 

accordance with applicable federal law 

with respect to such property. Such 

written notification shall be contained 

in documents evidencing the transfer of 

ownership of the property. 

(4) Failure to notify. If a transferor 

fails to provide notice as described 

above and, subsequent to the transfer of 

the property: 

(i) The transferee fails to obtain or 

maintain flood insurance, in accordance 

with applicable federal law, with 

respect to the property; 

(ii) The property is damaged by a 

flood disaster; and 

(iii) Federal disaster relief assistance 

is provided for the repair, replacement, 

or restoration of the property as a result 

of such damage. The transferor shall be 

required to reimburse the federal 

government in an amount equal to the 

amount of the federal disaster relief 

assistance provided with respect to the 

property. 

d. The notification requirements 

apply to personal, commercial, or 

residential property for which federal 

disaster relief assistance made available 

in a flood disaster area has been 

provided, prior to the date on which the 

property is transferred, for repair, 

replacement, or restoration of the 

property, if such assistance was 

conditioned upon obtaining flood 

insurance in accordance with applicable 

federal law with respect to such 

property. 

e. The term ‘‘Federal disaster relief 

assistance’’ applies to HUD or other 

federal assistance for disaster relief in 

‘‘flood disaster areas.’’ The term ‘‘flood 

disaster area’’ is defined in section 

582(d)(2) to include an area receiving a 

presidential declaration of a major 

disaster or emergency as a result of 

flood conditions. 

19. Non-Federal Cost Sharing of Army 

Corps of Engineers Projects. Public Law 

105–276, Title II, October 21, 1998, 112 

Stat. 2478, provided in part that: ‘‘For 

any fiscal year, of the amounts made 

available as emergency funds under the 

heading ‘Community Development 

Block Grants Fund’ and 

notwithstanding any other provision of 

law, not more than $250,000 may be 

used for the non-Federal cost-share of 

any project funded by the Secretary of 

the Army through the Corps of 

Engineers.’’ 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

A new Finding of No Significant 

Impact with respect to the environment 

has been made in accordance with HUD 

regulations at 24 CFR part 50, which 

implement section 102(2)(C) of the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)). The 

Finding of No Significant Impact is 

available for public inspection between 

8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays in the 

Regulations Division, Office of General 

Counsel, Department of Housing and 

Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, 

SW, Room 10276, Washington, DC 

20410–0500. Due to security measures 

at the HUD Headquarters building, 

please schedule an appointment to 

review the finding by calling the 

Regulations Division at 202–708–3055 

(this is not a toll-free number). 

Dated: October 6, 2008. 

Roy A. Bernardi, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–24535 Filed 10–14–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Blackstone River Valley National 

Heritage Corridor Commission: Notice 

of Meeting 

Notice is hereby given in accordance 

with Section 552b of Title 5, United 

States Code, that a meeting of the John 

H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley 

National Heritage Corridor Commission 

will be held on Thursday, November 20, 

2008. 

The Commission was established 

pursuant to Public Law 99–647. The 

purpose of the Commission is to assist 

federal, state and local authorities in the 

development and implementation of an 

integrated resource management plan 

for those lands and waters within the 

Corridor. 

The meeting will convene on 

November 20, 2008 at 9 a.m. at Central 

Mass Regional Planning Commission, 

located at 2 Washington Square, 2nd 

floor, Worcester, MA for the following 

reasons: 

1. Approval of Minutes 

2. Chairman’s Report 

3. Executive Director’s Report 

4. Financial Budget 

5. Public Input 

It is anticipated that about thirty 

people will be able to attend the session 

in addition to the Commission 

members. 

Interested persons may make oral or 

written presentations to the Commission 

or file written statements. Such requests 

should be made prior to the meeting to: 

Jan H. Reitsma, Executive Director, John 

H. Chafee, Blackstone River Valley 

National Heritage Corridor Commission, 

One Depot Square, Woonsocket, RI 

02895, Tel.: (401) 762–0250. 

Further information concerning this 

meeting may be obtained from Jan H. 

Reitsma, Executive Director of the 

Commission at the aforementioned 

address. 

Jan H. Reitsma, 

Executive Director, BRVNHCC. 

[FR Doc. E8–24359 Filed 10–14–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–RK–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R9–IA–2008–N0274; 96300–1671– 

0000–P5] 

Issuance of Permits 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 


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