Document ID: FEMA-2010-0003-0159
Agency: fema
Document Type: Proposed Rule
Title: Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations
Posted Date: 2011-08-15T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 157 (Monday, August 15, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 50446-50447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-20715]

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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-1126]

Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: On June 3, 2010, FEMA published in the Federal Register a 
proposed rule that included an erroneous Base Flood Elevation (BFE) 
description for Rowell Creek and erroneous BFEs for Sal Taylor Creek 
Tributary 2 in Duval County, Florida. This notice corrects the errors 
previously published for Rowell Creek and Sal Taylor Creek Tributary 2 
in Duval County, Florida.

DATES: Comments pertaining to the Rowell Creek BFEs, from the location 
approximately 650 feet upstream of Secluded Avenue to the location 
approximately 0.51 mile upstream of the intersection of Inspiration 
Avenue and D Avenue, and comments pertaining to the Sal Taylor Creek 
Tributary 2 BFEs, from the location at the confluence with Sal Taylor 
Creek to the location approximately 1,500 feet upstream of the 
confluence with Sal Taylor Creek Tributary 3, are to be submitted on or 
before November 14, 2011.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. FEMA-B-
1126, 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.

Corrections

    In the proposed rule published at 75 FR 31347, in the June 3, 2010, 
issue of the Federal Register, FEMA published a table under the 
authority of 44 CFR 67.4. The table, entitled ``Duval County, Florida, 
and Incorporated Areas'' addressed a number of flooding sources, 
including Rowell Creek and Sal Taylor Creek Tributary 2.
    The proposed rule incorrectly listed the Rowell Creek location 
description for the modified BFE of 80 feet, referenced to the North 
American Vertical Datum of 1988, as being approximately 650 feet 
upstream of Secluded Avenue. The correct location of this modified BFE 
is approximately 0.51 mile upstream of the intersection of Inspiration 
Avenue and D Avenue. The proposed rule also incorrectly listed the 
modified BFEs for Sal Taylor Creek Tributary 2, for both the location 
at the confluence with Sal Taylor Creek and the location approximately 
1,500 feet upstream of the confluence with Sal Taylor Creek Tributary 
3. The modified BFE for the location at the confluence with Sal Taylor 
Creek was listed as 61 feet, referenced to the North American Vertical 
Datum of 1988. The correct modified BFE for that location is 62 feet, 
referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988. The modified 
BFE for the location approximately 1,500 feet upstream of the 
confluence with Sal Taylor Creek Tributary 3 was listed as 67 feet, 
referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988. The correct 
modified BFE for that location is 68 feet, referenced to the North 
American Vertical Datum of 1988. The effective BFEs were listed 
correctly in the proposed rule.
    This proposed rule correction is reopening the comment period for 
Rowell Creek, for the proposed BFE at the location approximately 650 
feet upstream of Secluded Avenue, where a modified BFE of 67 feet, 
referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988, is proposed, 
due to the error in listing the location description for the Rowell 
Creek BFE of 80 feet, referenced to the North American Vertical Datum 
of 1988, in the previously published proposed rule at 75 FR 31347. This 
proposed rule also is opening a comment period for Rowell Creek from 
the location approximately 650 feet upstream of Secluded Avenue to the 
location approximately 0.51 mile upstream of the intersection of

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Inspiration Avenue and D Avenue, where a modified BFE of 80 feet, 
referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988, is proposed, 
due to the error in listing the location description for the Rowell 
Creek BFE of 80 feet, referenced to the North American Vertical Datum 
of 1988, in the previously published proposed rule at 75 FR 31347. In 
addition, this proposed rule is reopening the comment period for Sal 
Taylor Creek Tributary 2, from the location at the confluence with Sal 
Taylor Creek, where a modified BFE of 62 feet, referenced to the North 
American Vertical Datum of 1988, is proposed, to the location 
approximately 1,500 feet upstream of the confluence with Sal Taylor 
Creek Tributary 3, where a modified BFE of 68 feet, referenced to the 
North American Vertical Datum of 1988, is proposed, due to the error in 
listing the modified BFEs for this flooding source in the previously 
published proposed rule at 75 FR 31347.

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

    Dated: August 5, 2011.
Sandra K. Knight,
Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administrator, Mitigation, Department 
of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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