Document ID: FEMA-2014-0002-0130
Agency: fema
Document Type: Proposed Rule
Title: Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations
Posted Date: 2014-08-01T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 148 (Friday, August 1, 2014)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 44733]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-18086]

[[Page 44733]]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

44 CFR Part 67

[Docket ID FEMA-2014-0002; Internal Agency Docket No. FEMA-B-1089]

Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: On May 25, 2010, the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
(FEMA) published in the Federal Register a proposed rule that included 
modified Base (1% annual-chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) for the 
locations along Black Bayou Lake, Canal L-11, East Branch Oliver Road 
Canal, Oliver Road Canal, and West Prong Youngs Bayou in Ouachita 
Parish, Louisiana. FEMA is no longer proposing these flood elevation 
determination changes along Black Bayou Lake, Canal L-11, East Branch 
Oliver Road Canal, Oliver Road Canal, and West Prong Youngs Bayou as 
identified in the above-referenced rulemaking publication.

DATES: Comments are to be submitted on or before September 2, 2014.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. FEMA-B-
1089, to Luis Rodriguez, Chief, Engineering Management Branch, Federal 
Insurance and Mitigation Administration, Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, 500 C Street SW., Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646-4064 or 
(email) Luis.Rodriguez3@fema.dhs.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Luis Rodriguez, Chief, Engineering 
Management Branch, Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration, 
Federal Emergency Management Agency, 500 C Street SW., Washington, DC 
20472, (202) 646-4064 or (email) Luis.Rodriguez3@fema.dhs.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FEMA publishes proposed determinations of 
BFEs and modified BFEs for communities participating in the National 
Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), in accordance with section 110 of the 
Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 4104, and 44 CFR 
67.4(a).
    These proposed BFEs and modified BFEs, together with the floodplain 
management criteria required by 44 CFR 60.3, are minimum requirements. 
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 
also are used to calculate the appropriate flood insurance premium 
rates for new buildings built after these elevations are made final, 
and for the contents in those buildings.

Correction

    In the proposed rule published at 75 FR 29219, in the May 25, 2010, 
issue of the Federal Register, FEMA published a table on page 29229 
under the authority of 44 CFR 67.4. The table, entitled ``Ouachita 
Parish, Louisiana, and Incorporated Areas,'' addressed several flooding 
sources, including Black Bayou Lake, Canal L-11, East Branch Oliver 
Road Canal, Oliver Road Canal, and West Prong Youngs Bayou. The 
proposed rule listed modified BFEs for Black Bayou Lake, Canal L-11, 
East Branch Oliver Road Canal, Oliver Road Canal, and West Prong Youngs 
Bayou between specific upstream and downstream locations listed in the 
table. FEMA is no longer proposing these flood elevation determination 
changes along Black Bayou Lake, Canal L-11, East Branch Oliver Road 
Canal, Oliver Road Canal, and West Prong Youngs Bayou as identified in 
the above-referenced rulemaking publication.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 97.022, ``Flood 
Insurance.'')

    Dated: July 11, 2014.
Roy E. Wright,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Mitigation, Department of Homeland 
Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. 2014-18086 Filed 7-31-14; 8:45 am]
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