[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 82 (Tuesday, April 29, 2003)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 22662-22664]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-10486]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

44 CFR Part 67

[Docket No. FEMA-P-7625]


Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emergency Preparedness and 
Response Directorate, Department of Homeland Security.

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: Technical information or comments are requested on the 
proposed Base (1% annual-chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) and proposed 
BFE modifications for the communities listed below. The BFEs and 
modified BFEs are the basis for the floodplain management measures that 
the community is required either to adopt or to show evidence of being 
already in effect in order to qualify or remain qualified for 
participation in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

DATES: The comment period is ninety (90) days following the second 
publication of this proposed rule in a newspaper of local circulation 
in each community.

ADDRESSES: The proposed BFEs for each community are available for 
inspection at the office of the Chief Executive Officer of each 
community. The respective addresses are listed in the table below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Jean Pajak, Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646-
2831.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Federal Emergency Management Agency 
makes the final determinations listed below for the modified BFEs for 
each community listed. These modified elevations have been published in 
newspapers of local circulation and ninety (90) days have elapsed since 
that publication. The Mitigation Division Director of the Emergency 
Preparedness and Response Directorate, has resolved any appeals 
resulting from this notification.
    These proposed 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 Federal, State, or regional entities. These proposed 
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

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made final, and for the contents in these buildings.

National Environmental Policy Act

    This proposed rule is categorically excluded from the requirements 
of 44 CFR part 10, Environmental Consideration. No environmental impact 
assessment has been prepared.

Regulatory Flexibility Act

    The Mitigation Division Director of the Emergency Preparedness and 
Response Directorate certifies that this proposed rule is exempt from 
the requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act because modified 
base flood elevations are required by the Flood Disaster Protection Act 
of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 4105, and are required to maintain community 
eligibility in the NFIP. No regulatory flexibility analysis has been 
prepared.

Regulatory Classification

    This proposed rule is not a significant regulatory action under the 
criteria of section 3(f) of Executive Order 12866 of September 30, 
1993, Regulatory Planning and Review, 58 FR 51735.

Executive Order 12612, Federalism

    This proposed rule involves no policies that have federalism 
implications under Executive Order 12612, Federalism, dated October 26, 
1987.

Executive Order 12778, Civil Justice Reform

    This proposed rule meets the applicable standards of section 
2(b)(2) of Executive Order 12778.

List of Subjects in 44 CFR Part 67

    Administrative practice and procedure, flood insurance, reporting 
and record keeping requirements.

    Accordingly, 44 CFR part 67 is proposed to be amended as follows:

PART 67--[AMENDED]

    1. The authority citation for part 67 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.; Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 
1978, 3 CFR, 1978 Comp., p. 329; E.O. 12127, 44 FR 19367, 3 CFR, 
1979 Comp., p. 376.


Sec.  67.4  [Amended]

    2. The tables published under the authority of Sec.  67.4 are 
proposed to be amended as follows:

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                                              *Elevation in feet
    Source of flooding and location of              (NAVD)
           referenced elevation           --------------------------             Communities affected
                                             Existing     Modified
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Brushy Bayou:
    At confluence with Rambin Bayou......         None         *168  De Soto Parish.
    Approximately 1.31 miles upstream of          None         *174
     Interstate 49.
Cypress Bayou:
    At Wallace Lake Dam..................         None         *160  De Soto Parish Town of Stonewall.
    Just upstream of U.S. Highway 171....         None         *178
Rambin Bayou:
    Approximately 1.84 miles downstream           None         *160  De Soto Parish
     of Louisiana Highway 175.
    Approximately 1.32 miles upstream of          None         *172
     as Southbound Interstate 49.
Sabine River:
    Approximately 8.23 miles downstream           None         *173  De Soto Parish Town of Logansport.
     of U.S. Highway 84.
    Approximately 2.44 miles upstream of          None         *191
     U.S. Highway 84.
*North American Vertical Datum of 1988
 
                                                 De Soto Parish
 
Maps are available for inspection at the De Soto Parish Courthouse, 1010 Franklin Street, Mansfield, Louisiana.
   Send comments to Mr. DeWayne Mitchell, De Soto Parish President, 101 Franklin Street, Mansfield, Louisiana
                                                     71052.
                                               Town of Logansport
 
Maps are available for inspection at the Town Hall, 309 Main Street, Logansport, Louisiana.
Send comments to the Honorable Dennis Freeman, Mayor, Town of Logansport, 309 Main Street, Logansport, Louisiana
 71049.
 
                                                Town of Stonewall
 
Maps are available for inspection at the Town Hall, 1318 Highway 171, Stonewall, Louisiana.
Send comments to The Honorable Curtis McCune, Mayor, Town of Stonewall, 1318 Highway 171, Stonewall, Louisiana
 71078.
Joe's Lake:
    Entire shoreline.....................         None         *952  City of Cambridge, Isanti, County.
Long Lake:
    Entire shoreline.....................         None         *919  Isanti County.
*National Geodetic Vertical Datum
                                       Isanti County (Uncorporated Areas)
   Maps are available for inspection at
 County Courthouse, 555 18Th Avenue, SW,
          Cambridge, Minnesota.
Send comments to Mr. Jerry Tweed, Isanti
 County Coordinator, 555 18th Avenue, SW,
 Cambridge, MN 55008.
 
City of Cambridge:
 
Maps are available for inspection at City
 Hall, 626 N. Main Street, Cambridge,
 Minnesota.
Send comments to The Honorable Marlys
 Palmer, Mayor, City of Cambridge, 626 N.
 Main Street, Cambridge, Minnesota
 55008;.
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(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 83.100, ``Flood 
Insurance.'')

    Dated: April 23, 2003.
Anthony S. Lowe,
Mitigation Division Director, Emergency Preparedness and Response 
Directorate.
[FR Doc. 03-10486 Filed 4-28-03; 8:45 am]
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