Document ID: FEMA-2008-0020-0074
Agency: fema
Document Type: Rule
Title: Final Flood Elevation Determinations
Posted Date: 2008-06-05T12:47:52Z

[Federal Register: June 5, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 109)]
[Rules and Regulations]               
[Page 31944-31945]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

44 CFR Part 67

 
Final Flood Elevation Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Final rule, correction.

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SUMMARY: On May 7, 2008, FEMA published in the Federal Register a final 
rule that contained an erroneous table. This notice provides 
corrections to that table, to be used in lieu of the information 
published at 73 FR 25542. The table provided here represents the 
flooding source, location of referenced elevation, effective and 
modified elevation, and communities affected for the Union County and 
Incorporated Areas. Specifically, it addresses flooding source ``Blythe 
Creek.''

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William R. Blanton, Jr., Chief, 
Engineering Management Branch, Mitigation Directorate, Federal 
Emergency Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 20472, 
(202) 646-3151 or (e-mail) bill.blanton@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 final BFEs and modified BFEs, together with the floodplain 
management criteria required by 44 CFR 60.3, are the minimum that are 
required. 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

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Federal, State, or regional entities. These final elevations are used 
to meet the floodplain management requirements of the NFIP and are also 
used to calculate the appropriate flood insurance premium rates for new 
buildings built after these elevations are made final, and for the 
contents in these buildings.

Correction

    In the final rule published at 73 FR 25542 in the May 7, 2008 issue 
of the Federal Register, FEMA published a table under the authority of 
44 CFR 67.4. The table, entitled ``Union County, North Carolina and 
Incorporated Areas'' addressed flooding source ``Blythe Creek.'' That 
table contained inaccurate information as to the location of referenced 
elevation, effective and modified elevation in feet, or communities 
affected for these flooding sources. In this notice, FEMA is publishing 
a table containing the accurate information, to address these prior 
errors. The information provided below should be used in lieu of that 
previously published.

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                                                                      *Elevation in
                                                                       feet (NGVD)
                                                                      +Elevation in
           Flooding source(s)              Location of referenced      feet (NAVD)       Communities  affected
                                                elevation**         Depth in
                                                                    feet above ground
                                                                         Modified
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                              Union County, North Carolina, and Incorporated Areas
                                    Docket Nos.: FEMA-D-7668 and FEMA-D-7808
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Blythe Creek...........................  Approximately 0.4 mile                  +549  Unincorporated Areas of
                                          upstream of Bud Huey                          Union County, Town of
                                          Road (State Route 115).                       Waxhaw.
                                         At the confluence with                  +510  .........................
                                          East Fork Twelvemile
                                          Creek.
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    Dated: May 27, 2008.
David I. Maurstad,
Federal Insurance Administrator of the National Flood Insurance 
Program, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management 
Agency.
 [FR Doc. E8-12516 Filed 6-4-08; 8:45 am]

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