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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

CFR Citation: 44 CFR Part 67

NOTICE: RULES

ACTION: Flood elevation determinations:

DOCUMENT ACTION: Final rule.

SUBJECT CATEGORY: Final Flood Elevation Determinations

EFFECTIVE DATES: The date of issuance of the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)
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showing BFEs and modified BFEs for each community. This date may be obtained by contacting the office where the FIRM is available for inspection as indicated in the table below.

DOCUMENT SUMMARY: Base (1-percent-annual-chance) Flood Elevations and modified Base Flood Elevations (BFEs) are made final for the communities listed below. The BFEs and modified BFEs are the basis for the floodplain management measures that each 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).

SUMMARY: Illinois and Oklahoma,

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

FEMA makes final determinations listed below of BFEs and modified BFEs for each community listed. The proposed BFEs and proposed modified BFEse were published in newspapers of local circulation and an opportunity for the community or individuals to appeal the proposed determinations to or through the community was provided for a period of ninety (90) days. The proposed BFEs and proposed modified BFEs were also published in the Federal Register.

This final rule is issued in accordance with Section 110 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 4104, and 44 CFR part 67.

FEMA has developed criteria for floodplain management in floodprone areas in accordance with 44 CFR part 60.

Interested lessees and owners of real property are encouraged to review the proof Flood Insurance Study and FIRM available at the address cited below for each community.

The BFEs and modified BFEs are made final in the communities listed below. Elevations at selected locations in each community are shown.

National Environmental Policy Act. This 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 Administrator of the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration certifies that this rule is exempt from the requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act because final or modified base flood elevations are required by the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 4104, and are required to establish and maintain community eligibility in the NFIP. No regulatory flexibility analysis has been prepared.

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

Executive Order 12778, Civil Justice Reform. This 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 amended to read 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. 67.11 [Amended]

2. The tables published under the authority of Sec. 67.11 are amended as follows:
Depth in feet above ground *Elevation in feet State City/town/county Source of flooding Location (NGVD) Modified [sdiam]Elevation in feet (NAVD) Modified IL................................... Bradley (Village) Kankakee River........................... The southwest corner of the Village of Bradley............. ....................... (Kankakee County) (FEMA North Branch Soldier Creek............... Just upstream of Conrail bridge............................ * 599 Docket No. 7613). Soldier Creek............................ At the confluence of North Branch Soldier Creek............ * 628 Approximately 400 feet upstream of North Street............ ....................... * 627 ....................... * 634 Maps are available for inspection at the Department of Building Standards, 147 S. Michigan Avenue, Bradley, Illinois. IL................................... Kankakee (City) Kankakee River........................... Approximately 7,600 feet downsteam of Conrail.............. * 598 (Kankakee County) (FEMA Soldier Creek............................ Approximately 3,600 feet upstream of I57.................. ....................... Docket No. P7613). Just upstream of Illinois Central Railroad................. * 606 Approximately 4,300 feet upstream of State Route 50 (Kinzie * 627 Avenue). ....................... ........................................................... * 631 Maps are available for inspection at the City of Kankakee Planning Department, 165 N. Schuyler Avenue, Kankakee, Illinois. OK................................... Prague (City) (Oklahoma Shan Creek............................... ........................................................... * 992 County) (FEMA Docket Shan Creek Tributary..................... ........................................................... * 983 No. P7615).
Maps are available for inspection at 1116 North Jim Thorpe Boulevard, Prague, Oklahoma. [[Page 4951]]
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 83.100, ``Flood Insurance.'')

Dated: January 21, 2003.
Anthony S. Lowe,
Administrator, Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration. [FR Doc. 032244 Filed 13003; 8:45 am]
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Michael M. Grimm, Acting Chief, Hazard Study Branch, Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration, 500 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 20472, (202) 6462878 or (email) michael.grimm@fema.gov.