Document ID: FEMA-2011-0002-0033
Agency: fema
Document Type: Proposed Rule
Title: Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations; Correction
Posted Date: 2011-03-14T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 49 (Monday, March 14, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 13571-13572]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-5834]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

44 CFR Part 67

[Docket ID FEMA-2008-0020; Internal Agency Docket No. FEMA-B-1072]

Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: On September 8, 2009, 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 lieu of the information 
published at 74 FR 46074. The table provided here represents the 
flooding sources, location of referenced elevations, effective and 
modified elevations, and communities affected for Troup County, 
Georgia, and Incorporated Areas. Specifically, it addresses the 
flooding source Shoal Creek.

DATES: Comments are to be submitted on or before June 13, 2011.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. FEMA-B-
1072, 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.

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Correction

    In the proposed rule published at 74 FR 46074, in the September 8, 
2009, issue of the Federal Register, FEMA published a table under the 
authority of 44 CFR 67.4. The table, entitled ``Troup County, Georgia, 
and Incorporated Areas'' addressed the flooding source Shoal Creek. 
That table contained inaccurate information as to the location of 
referenced elevation, effective and modified elevation in feet, and/or 
communities affected for that flooding source. 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
                                                                   feet (NAVD) 
                                       Location of Referenced       Depth in feet above
         Flooding Source(s)                 Elevation **         ground [caret] Elevation   Communities affected
                                                                      in meters (MSL)
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                                                                  Effective     Modified
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                                  Troup County, Georgia, and Incorporated Areas
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Shoal Creek........................  Approximately 2,800 feet           None         +650  City of LaGrange
                                      downstream of Hammett
                                      Road.
                                     Approximately 1,500 feet           None         +669
                                      upstream of Hammett Road.
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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 LaGrange
Maps are available for inspection at City Hall, 200 Ridley Avenue, LaGrange, Georgia 30240.
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(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 97.022, ``Flood 
Insurance.'')

    Dated: March 4, 2011.
Sandra K. Knight,
Deputy Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administrator, Mitigation, 
Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. 2011-5834 Filed 3-11-11; 8:45 am]
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