Document ID: FEMA-2011-0002-0061
Agency: fema
Document Type: Proposed Rule
Title: Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations; Correction
Posted Date: 2011-05-10T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 90 (Tuesday, May 10, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 26980-26981]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-11292]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

44 CFR Part 67

[Docket ID FEMA-2010-0003; Internal Agency Docket No. FEMA-B-1155]

Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: On November 9, 2010, FEMA published in the Federal Register a 
proposed rule that included an erroneous community name for Lake 
Michigan and White Ditch in La Porte County, Indiana. The City of 
Michiana Shores should have been listed as the Town of Michiana Shores.

DATES: Comments pertaining to the Lake Michigan and White Ditch BFEs 
for the Town of Michiana Shores are to be submitted on or before August 
8, 2011.

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ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. FEMA-B-
1155, 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 (e-
mail) luis.rodriguez1@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 (e-mail) luis.rodriguez1@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.

Correction

    In the proposed rule published at 75 FR 68744, in the November 9, 
2010, issue of the Federal Register, FEMA published a table under the 
authority of 44 CFR 67.4. The table, entitled ``La Porte County, 
Indiana, and Incorporated Areas'' addressed several flooding sources, 
including Lake Michigan and White Ditch. That table incorrectly listed 
the City of Michiana Shores among the communities affected by the 
modified BFEs for Lake Michigan and White Ditch and listed the 
incorrect name of the community in the list of map repository 
addresses. The correct name of the community is the Town of Michiana 
Shores, and its map repository is located at the Town Hall, 601 El 
Portal South Drive, Michiana Shores, Indiana 46360. This proposed rule 
correction is reopening the comment period for the modified BFEs for 
Lake Michigan and White Ditch, for the Town of Michiana Shores, due to 
the error in listing this community as the City of Michiana Shores in 
the previously published proposed rule at 75 FR 68744.

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

    Dated: April 8, 2011.
Sandra K. Knight,
Deputy Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administrator, Mitigation, 
Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. 2011-11292 Filed 5-9-11; 8:45 am]
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