[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 145 (Thursday, July 28, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 45215-45217]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-19042]


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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-1075]


Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: On October 27, 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 55168. The table provided here represents the 
flooding sources, location of referenced elevations, effective and 
modified elevations, and communities affected for Peoria County, 
Illinois, and Incorporated Areas. Specifically, it addresses the 
following flooding sources: Dry Run Creek, Illinois River, and Kickapoo 
Creek.

DATES: Comments are to be submitted on or before October 26, 2011.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. FEMA-B-
1075, to Luis Rodriguez, Chief, Engineering Management Branch, Federal 
Insurance and Mitigation Administration, Federal Emergency

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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.

Corrections

    In the proposed rule published at 74 FR 55168, in the October 27, 
2009, issue of the Federal Register, FEMA published a table under the 
authority of 44 CFR 67.4. The table, entitled ``Peoria County, 
Illinois, and Incorporated Areas'' addressed the flooding source 
Illinois River. That table contained inaccurate information as to the 
location of referenced elevation, effective and modified elevation in 
feet, or communities affected for that flooding source. In addition, it 
did not include the flooding sources Dry Run Creek and Kickapoo Creek. 
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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                                 Peoria County, Illinois, and Incorporated Areas
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Dry Run Creek.......................  At the downstream side          None         +481  City of West Peoria.
                                       of Swords Avenue.
                                      At the upstream side of         None         +511
                                       Park Road.
Illinois River......................  Approximately 0.57 mile         +455         +454  City of Chillicothe,
                                       upstream of Marsh Road.                            City of Pekin, City of
                                                                                          Peoria, Unincorporated
                                                                                          Areas of Peoria
                                                                                          County, Village of
                                                                                          Bartonville, Village
                                                                                          of Kingston Mines,
                                                                                          Village of Mapleton.
                                      Approximately 1,400             None         +460
                                       feet upstream of
                                       Moffitt Street.
Kickapoo Creek......................  Approximately 60 feet           None         +473  City of Peoria, City of
                                       downstream of Harmon                               West Peoria, Village
                                       Highway/State Route                                of Bellevue.
                                       116.
                                      At the downstream side          None         +480
                                       of Farmington 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 Chillicothe
Maps are available for inspection at 908 North 2nd Street, Chillicothe, IL 61523.
City of Pekin
Maps are available for inspection at City Hall, 111 South Capital Street, Pekin, IL 61554.
City of Peoria
Maps are available for inspection at 419 Fulton Street, Peoria, IL 61602.
 
City of West Peoria
Maps are available for inspection at 2506 West Rohmann Avenue, West Peoria, IL 61604.
 
Unincorporated Areas of Peoria County
 
Maps are available for inspection at the Peoria County Planning and Zoning Department, 324 Main Street, Room
 301, Peoria, IL 61602.
 
Village of Bartonville
Maps are available for inspection at the Village Hall, 5912 South Adams Street, Bartonville, IL 61607.
 

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Village of Bellevue
Maps are available for inspection at the Peoria County Planning and Zoning Department, 324 Main Street, Room
 301, Peoria, IL 61602.
 
Village of Kingston Mines
Maps are available for inspection at the Peoria County Planning and Zoning Department, 324 Main Street, Room
 301, Peoria, IL 61602.
 
Village of Mapleton
Maps are available for inspection at the Peoria County Planning and Zoning Department, 324 Main Street, Room
 301, Peoria, IL 61602.
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(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 97.022, ``Flood 
Insurance.'')

    Dated: July 8, 2011.
Sandra K. Knight,
Deputy Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administrator, Mitigation, 
Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. 2011-19042 Filed 7-27-11; 8:45 am]
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