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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
DOCUMENT SUMMARY: Base (1% annual chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) and modified 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: Virginia,
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
FEMA makes the final determinations listed below for the 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. 4104, and 44 CFR Part 67.
The 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 final or modified BFEs 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 Oct. 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 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:
Stafford County (FEMA Docket No. D7586)
Accokeek Creek:
Approximately 0.66 mile downstream of State Route
Approximately 350 feet upstream of State Route 628.
Approximately 0.79 mile downstream of Aquia Drive..
Austin Run:
Approximately 0.63 mile upstream of the confluence
Approximately 285 feet upstream of Winding Creek
Claiborne Run:
At the upstream side of Kings Highway (State Route
Approximately 0.56 mile upstream of U.S. Route 1...
Approximately 185 feet upstream of the confluence
Approximately 1.0 mile upstream of State Route 670.
Approximately 1,000 feet upstream of U.S. Route 17.
Little Falls Run:
Approximately 1,280 feet upstream of Kings Highway.
At the confluence with Tributary 3 to Austin Run...
Tributary 3 to Austin Run:
At the confluence with Austin Run..................
Whitsons Run (previously known as Tributary 1 to
Austin Run):
At the confluence with Austin Run..................
Maps available for inspection at the Stafford County
Administration Center, Department of Code
Administration, 1300 Courthouse Road, Stafford,
Virginia.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 83.100, ``Flood Insurance'')
Dated: August 9, 2004.
David I. Maurstad,
Acting Director, Mitigation Division, Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate.
[FR Doc. 0418689 Filed 81304; 8:45 am]
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Doug Bellomo, P.E., Hazard Identification Section, Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate, FEMA, 500 C Street SW., Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646 2903.
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