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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

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) 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: Various States,

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

The Federal Emergency Management Agency makes the final determinations listed below of BFEs and modified BFEs for each community listed. These modified elevations have been published in newspapers of local circulation and ninety (90) days have elapsed since that publication. The Mitigation Division Director of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate has resolved any appeals resulting from this notification.

This final rule is issued in accordance with Section 110 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 4105, and 44 CFR part 67.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency 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 Mitigation Division Director of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate certifies that this rule is exempt from the requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act because modified base flood elevations are required by the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 4105, 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 recordkeeping 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:
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Depth in feet above ground. *Elevation in State City/town/county Source of flooding Location feet (NGVD) Modified [diam] Elevation in feet (NAVD) Modified Illinois..................... Monmouth (City) Unnamed Creek................... *766 Warren County
(FEMA Docket
No. 7623).
Maps are available for inspection at the Zoning Office, 100 East Broadway, Monmouth, Illinois. Iowa......................... Hancock County Bear Creek Winnebago River...... *1,205 (Unincorporated
Areas) (FEMA
Docket No.
7623).
Maps are available for inspection at Hancock County Courthouse, 855 State Street, Garner, Iowa. Kansas....................... Manhattan (City) Kansas River.................... Approximately 3,600 feet downstream of State *1,013 Riley County Highway 177 (FEMA Docket
No. 7401).
Approximately 2,000 feet downstream of State *1,015 Highway 177 (at County Boundary) Approximately 1,600 feet upstream of State Highway *1,018 177 Wildcat Creek................... Just downstream of the Union Pacific Railroad *1,020 Just upstream of K18 Highway *1,025 Approximately 9,200 feet upstream of confluence *1,060 with Little Kitten Creek Little Kitten Creek............. Approximately 1,750 feet above confluence with *1,055 Wildcat Creek Approximately 3,700 feet upstream of Kimball *1,144 Avenue Kansas....................... Manhattan (City) VirginiaNevada Tributary....... At confluence with Wildcat Creek *1,038 Riley County
(Cont'd) (FEMA
Docket No.
7401).
At upstream side of Dickens Avenue *1,068 CICO Tributary................. At Anderson Avenue *1,051 Approximately 1,560 feet upstream of Clafin Road *1,076 Maps are available for inspection at the Community Development Office, 1101 Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas. Kansas....................... Riley (City) Wildcat Creek Tributary......... Just downstream of Chestnut Street *1,270 Riley County
(FEMA Docket
No. 7254).
Approximately 450 feet upstream of Walnut Street *1,281 Maps are available for inspection at the City of Riley, City Hall, 902 North Noble, Riley, Kansas. Kansas....................... Riley County Kansas River.................... At downstream county boundary *900 (Unincorporated
Areas) (FEMA
Docket No.
7401).
Approximately 5,700 feet upstream of confluence *1,013 with Big Blue River Kansas....................... Riley County Kansas River.................... Approximately 11,800 feet downstream of the *1,041 (Cont'd) confluence with Dry Branch (Unincorporated
Areas) (FEMA
Docket No.
7401).
Approximately 1,000 feet downstream of Wildcat *1,048 State Highway 18 Wildcat Creek................... At confluence with Kansas River *1,019 Approximately 4,600 feet upstream of confluence *1,055 with Little Kitten Creek Approximately 1,000 feet downstream of North *1,062 Scenic Drive Little Kitten Creek............. At confluence with Wildcat Creek *1,051 Just downstream of Anderson Avenue *1,061 Eureka Valley At confluence with Sevenmile .................................................. *1,034 Tributary. Creek.
Approximately 300 feet upstream of State Highway *1,037 18 Just downstream of Wildcat Creek Road *1,073 [[Page 44465]]
Kansas....................... Riley County CICO Tributary................. At confluence with Wildcat Creek *1,045 (Cont'd)
Unincorporated
Areas) FEMA
Docket No.
7401).
Just upstream of Missouri, Kansas, and Texas *1,051 Railroad Maps are available for inspection at the Riley County Planning and Zoning Office, 110 Courthouse Plaza, Manhattan, Kansas. Louisana..................... Delcambre (Town) Gulf of Mexico.................. Intersection of South Railroad Street and East *10 Iberia and Charity Street Vermilion
Parishes (FEMA
Docket No.
7609).
Intersection of North Railroad Street and Kirk *9 Street Maps are available for inspection at the Office of the Mayor, Town of Delcambre, 107 N. Railroad Road, Delcambre, Louisiana. Wisconsin.................... Darlington Pecatonica River................ Approximately 200 feet downstream of Main Street *823 (City)
Lafayette
County (FEMA
Docket No.
7623).
At upstream corporate limit, approximately 1,650 *827 feet upstream of the Union Pacific Railroad Maps are available for inspection at City Hall, 627 Main Street, Darlington, Wisconsin. Wisconsin.................... Lafayette County Pecatonica River................ Approximately 1,000 feet upstream of the *822 (Unincorporated confluence of Vinegar Branch at the City of Areas) (FEMA Darlington corporate limits Docket No.
7623).
Just downstream of the Union Pacific Railroad, *841 approximately 2,500 feet downstream of Ferndale Road Maps are available for inspection at Lafayette County Courthouse, 627 Washington Street, Darlington, Wisconsin. (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 83.100, ``Flood Insurance.'')

Dated: July 15, 2003.
Anthony S. Lowe,
Mitigation Division Director, Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Mary Jean Pajak, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646 2831.