[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 149 (Wednesday, August 3, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 46716-46718]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-19548]


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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-1105]


Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: On June 3, 2010, 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 75 FR 31373. The table provided here represents the 
flooding sources, location of referenced elevations, effective and 
modified elevations, and communities affected for Lawrence County, 
Missouri, and Incorporated Areas. Specifically, it addresses the 
following flooding sources: Chapel Drain, Clear Creek, Kelly Creek 
Tributary, Tributary No. 1, Tributary 2, Unnamed Tributary, Unnamed 
Tributary Number 1, Unnamed Tributary Number 2, Unnamed Tributary 
Number 3, and Unnamed Tributary Number 4.

DATES: Comments are to be submitted on or before November 1, 2011.

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

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1105, 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.

Corrections

    In the proposed rule published at 75 FR 31373, in the June 3, 2010, 
issue of the Federal Register, FEMA published a table under the 
authority of 44 CFR 67.4. The table, entitled ``Lawrence County, 
Missouri, and Incorporated Areas'' addressed the following flooding 
sources: Kelly Creek Tributary, Tributary No. 1, Unnamed Tributary, 
Unnamed Tributary Number 1, Unnamed Tributary Number 2, Unnamed 
Tributary Number 3, and Unnamed Tributary Number 4. That table 
contained inaccurate information as to the location of referenced 
elevation, effective and modified elevation in feet, and/or communities 
affected for those flooding sources. In addition, it did not include 
the following flooding sources: Chapel Drain, Clear Creek, and 
Tributary 2. 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)  Depth
                                       Location of referenced    in feet above ground
         Flooding source(s)                 elevation**          [caret] Elevation in     Communities  affected
                                                                     meters  (MSL)
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                                                                Effective     Modified
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                                Lawrence County, Missouri, and Incorporated Areas
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Chapel Drain........................  Approximately 50 feet           None        +1335  Unincorporated Areas of
                                       upstream of Farm Road                              Lawrence County.
                                       1090.
                                      Approximately 0.71 mile         None        +1379
                                       upstream of Farm Road
                                       1090.
Clear Creek.........................  Approximately 250 feet          None        +1233  Unincorporated Areas of
                                       downstream of Farm                                 Lawrence County.
                                       Road 1050.
                                      Just upstream of the            None        +1243
                                       Barry County boundary.
Kelly Creek Tributary...............  Approximately 0.45 mile         None        +1365  Unincorporated Areas of
                                       downstream of Farm                                 Lawrence County.
                                       Road 2230.
                                      Approximately 100 feet          None        +1401
                                       upstream of Farm Road
                                       2230.
Tributary No. 1.....................  Approximately 50 feet           None        +1326  Unincorporated Areas of
                                       upstream of the                                    Lawrence County.
                                       Unnamed Tributary
                                       confluence.
                                      Approximately 275 feet          None        +1333
                                       upstream of State
                                       Highway 37.
Tributary 2.........................  Just upstream of the            None        +1357  Unincorporated Areas of
                                       Unnamed Tributary                                  Lawrence County.
                                       confluence.
                                      Approximately 900 feet          None        +1377
                                       upstream of State
                                       Route H.
Unnamed Tributary...................  Approximately 1,675             None        +1277  Unincorporated Areas of
                                       feet downstream of the                             Lawrence County.
                                       Barry County boundary.
                                      Approximately 550 feet          None        +1383
                                       upstream of Farm Road
                                       2230.
Unnamed Tributary Number 1..........  Approximately 200 feet          None        +1372  City of Aurora.
                                       downstream of
                                       Washington Avenue.
                                      Approximately 525 feet          None        +1406
                                       upstream of Union
                                       Street.
Unnamed Tributary Number 2..........  Approximately 600 feet          None        +1359  City of Aurora.
                                       upstream of South
                                       Street.
                                      Approximately 100 feet          None        +1402
                                       upstream of Prospect
                                       Street.
Unnamed Tributary Number 3..........  Approximately 250 feet          None        +1376  City of Aurora.
                                       upstream of the
                                       Unnamed Tributary
                                       Number 2 confluence.
                                      Approximately at Tyler          None        +1390
                                       drive.
Unnamed Tributary Number 4..........  Approximately 215 feet          None        +1361  City of Aurora.
                                       upstream of Saint
                                       Louis Street.
                                      Approximately 650 feet          None        +1381
                                       upstream of Lincoln
                                       Avenue.
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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.

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** 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 Aurora
Maps are available for inspection at 2 West Pleasant Street, Aurora, MO 65712.
 
                                     Unincorporated Areas of Lawrence County
Maps are available for inspection at 1 East Courthouse Square, Mt. Vernon, MO 65712.
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(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 97.022, ``Flood 
Insurance.'')

    Dated: July 22, 2011.
Sandra K. Knight,
Deputy Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administrator, Mitigation, 
Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. 2011-19548 Filed 8-2-11; 8:45 am]
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