Document ID: FEMA-2013-0002-0082
Agency: fema
Document Type: Proposed Rule
Title: Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations
Posted Date: 2013-04-15T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 72 (Monday, April 15, 2013)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 22221-22222]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-08043]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

44 CFR Part 67

[Docket ID FEMA-2013-0002; Internal Agency Docket No. FEMA-B-1212]

Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: On August 17, 2011, FEMA published in the Federal Register a 
proposed rule that contained an erroneous table. This notice provides 
corrections to that table, to be used in addition to the information 
published at 76 FR 50960. The table provided here represents the 
flooding sources, location of referenced elevations, effective and 
modified elevations, and communities affected for Pitt County, North 
Carolina, and Incorporated Areas. Specifically, it addresses the 
following flooding sources: Pea Branch and Reedy Branch.

DATES: Comments are to be submitted on or before July 15, 2013.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. FEMA-B-
1212, 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: The Federal Emergency Management Agency 
(FEMA) publishes proposed determinations of Base (1% annual-chance) 
Flood Elevations (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.
    In the proposed rule published at 76 FR 50960, in the August 17, 
2011, issue of the Federal Register, FEMA published a table under the 
authority of 44 CFR 67.4. The table, entitled ``Pitt County, North 
Carolina, and Incorporated Areas'' did not address the flooding sources 
Pea Branch and Reedy Branch. That table omitted information as to the 
location of referenced elevation, effective and modified elevation in 
feet, and communities affected for those flooding sources. In this 
document, FEMA is publishing a table containing the accurate 
information, to address these prior errors. The information provided 
below should be used in addition to that previously published.

Correction

    In proposed rule FR Doc. 2011-20966, beginning on page 50952 in the 
issue of August 17, 2011, make the following correction. On page 50957, 
add the following:

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                                                                  * Elevation in feet
                                                                (NGVD)  + Elevation in
                                                                feet (NAVD)  
                                                                  Depth in feet above
         Flooding source(s)            Location of referenced       ground  [caret]        Communities affected
                                            elevation **          Elevation in meters
                                                                         (MSL)
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                                                                Effective     Modified
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                               Pitt County, North Carolina, and Incorporated Areas
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Pea Branch..........................  At the Tranters Creek            +15          +14  Unincorporated areas of
                                       confluence.                                        Pitt County.
                                      Approximately 1,250              +15          +14
                                       feet upstream of the
                                       Tranters Creek
                                       confluence.
Reedy Branch........................  At Wright Road.........          +35          +36  City of Greenville.
                                      Approximately 400 feet           +66          +68
                                       upstream of the
                                       railroad.
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* National Geodetic Vertical Datum.
+ North American Vertical Datum.
 Depth in feet above ground.
[caret] Mean Sea Level, rounded to the nearest 0.1 meter.
 
\**\ BFEs to be changed include the listed downstream and upstream BFEs, and include BFEs located on the stream
 reach between the referenced locations above. Please refer to the revised Flood Insurance Rate Map located at
 the community map repository (see below) for exact locations of all BFEs to be changed.
Send comments to Luis Rodriguez, Chief, Engineering Management Branch, Federal Insurance and Mitigation
 Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 500 C Street SW., Washington, DC 20472.
 
                                                    ADDRESSES
 
City of Greenville
Maps are available for inspection at the Department of Public Works, 1500 Beatty Street, Greenville, NC 27834.
 
                                       Unincorporated Areas of Pitt County
Maps are available for inspection at the Pitt County Planning Department, 1717 West 5th Street, Greenville, NC
 27834.
 
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(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 97.022, ``Flood 
Insurance.'')

Roy E. Wright,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Mitigation, Department of Homeland 
Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. 2013-08043 Filed 4-12-13; 8:45 am]
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