[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 49 (Monday, March 14, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 13569-13570]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-5818]


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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-1155]


Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: On November 9, 2010, FEMA published in the Federal Register a 
proposed rule that included erroneous Base Flood Elevation (BFE) 
location descriptions for the Cartecay River in Gilmer County, Georgia. 
The location description for the proposed BFE of 1,290 feet, referenced 
to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988, should have located the 
proposed BFE as being approximately 1.12 miles upstream of Holt Bridge 
Road; and the location description for the proposed

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BFE of 1,519 feet, referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 
1988, should have located the proposed BFE as being approximately 0.24 
mile upstream of the Owltown Creek confluence.

DATES: Comments pertaining to the location descriptions for the 
Cartecay River BFEs are to be submitted on or before June 13, 2011.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. FEMA-B-
1155, 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].

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.

Correction

    In the proposed rule published at 75 FR 68744, in the November 9, 
2010, issue of the Federal Register, FEMA published a table under the 
authority of 44 CFR 67.4. The table, entitled ``Gilmer County, Georgia, 
and Incorporated Areas'' addressed the flooding source Cartecay River.
    The proposed rule listed the location description for the proposed 
BFE of 1,290 feet, referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 
1988, as being approximately 0.24 mile upstream of the confluence with 
Owltown Creek. The correct location of this proposed BFE is 
approximately 1.12 miles upstream of Holt Bridge Road. The proposed 
rule also listed the location description for the proposed BFE of 1,519 
feet, referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988, as being 
approximately 1.12 miles upstream of Holt Bridge Road. The correct 
location of this proposed BFE is approximately 0.24 mile upstream of 
the Owltown Creek confluence.
    This proposed rule correction is reopening the comment period for 
the Cartecay River, for the locations of the proposed BFEs of 1,290 
feet and 1,519 feet, both referenced to the North American Vertical 
Datum of 1988, due to the error in listing the location descriptions 
for these BFEs in the previously published proposed rule at 75 FR 
68744.

(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. 2011-5818 Filed 3-11-11; 8:45 am]
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