[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 45 (Tuesday, March 8, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 12665-12666]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-5223]



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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-1069]


Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: On September 15, 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 47169. The table provided here represents the 
flooding sources, location of referenced elevations, effective and 
modified elevations, and communities affected for Lawrence County, 
South Dakota, and Incorporated Areas. Specifically, it addresses the 
following flooding sources: Hungry Hollow Gulch, Ice House Creek, Ice 
House Creek Tributary A, Riggs Gulch, Spearfish Creek, and Unnamed 
Tributary to Higgins Gulch.

DATES: Comments are to be submitted on or before June 6, 2011.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. FEMA-B-
1069, 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) [email protected]">luis.[email protected].

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) [email protected].

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 74 FR 47169, in the September 15, 
2009, issue of the Federal Register, FEMA published a table under the 
authority of 44 CFR 67.4. The table, entitled ``Lawrence County, South 
Dakota, and Incorporated Areas'' addressed the following flooding 
sources: Hungry Hollow Gulch, Ice House Creek, Ice House Creek 
Tributary A, Riggs Gulch, Spearfish Creek, and Unnamed Tributary to 
Higgins Gulch. 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. It also 
incorrectly listed the City of Deadwood as an affected community for 
Ice House Creek Tributary A; the affected community should have been 
listed as the City of Spearfish. 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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                              Lawrence County, South Dakota, and Incorporated Areas
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Hungry Hollow Gulch.................  Approximately 350 feet        +3,634       +3,632  City of Spearfish.
                                       downstream of Ames
                                       Avenue.
                                      Approximately 645 feet        +3,697       +3,699
                                       upstream of St. Joe
                                       Street.
Ice House Creek.....................  Approximately 25 feet           None       +3,658  City of Spearfish.
                                       upstream of Grant
                                       Street.
                                      Approximately 50 feet           None       +3,686
                                       upstream of State
                                       Street.
Ice House Creek Tributary A.........  Approximately 73 feet           None       +3,663  City of Spearfish.
                                       downstream of 8th
                                       Street.
                                      Approximately 150 feet          None       +3,671
                                       downstream of State
                                       Street.
Riggs Gulch.........................  Approximately 200 feet          None       +3,764  City of Spearfish.
                                       downstream of U.S.
                                       Route 14A.
                                      Approximately 920 feet          None       +3,843
                                       upstream of Colorado
                                       Boulevard.
Spearfish Creek.....................  Just downstream of Utah       +3,569       +3,570  City of Spearfish,
                                       Boulevard.                                         Unincorporated Areas
                                                                                          of Lawrence County.
                                      Approximately 1,300           +3,725       +3,726
                                       feet upstream of
                                       Winterville Drive.
Unnamed Tributary to Higgins Gulch..  Approximately 4,430             None       +3,440  City of Spearfish.
                                       feet downstream of the
                                       I-90 West ramp.
                                      Approximately 1,500             None       +3,491
                                       feet downstream of the
                                       I-90 West ramp.
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* National Geodetic Vertical Datum.

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+ 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 Spearfish
Maps are available for inspection at the 625 5th Street, Spearfish, SD 57783.
 
                                     Unincorporated Areas of Lawrence County
Maps are available for inspection at 90 Sherman Street, Deadwood, SD 57732.
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(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 97.022, ``Flood 
Insurance.'')

    Dated: February 7, 2011.
Sandra K. Knight,
Deputy Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administrator, Mitigation, 
Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. 2011-5223 Filed 3-7-11; 8:45 am]
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