Federal Register: February 28, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 39)

DOCID: FR Doc 06-1822

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

DATES: 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 maps are available for inspection as indicated on the table below.

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 [[Page 9964]]
already in effect in order to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

SUMMARY:

Massachusetts,

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 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 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 13132, Federalism. This rule involves no policies that have federalism implications under Executive Order 13132.

Executive Order 12988, Civil Justice Reform. This rule meets the applicable standards of Executive Order 12988.

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:
Depth in feet above ground. Source of flooding and location *Elevation in feet (NGVD)

  • Elevation in feet (NAVD) MASSACHUSETTS
    Marshfield (Town), Plymouth County (FEMA Docket No. D
    7624)
    Massachusetts Bay, Duxbury Marsh:
    Approximately 300 feet southwest of the *10 intersection of Careswell Street and Colby Hewitt
    Lane..............................................
    Approximately 1,700 feet southeast of the *13 intersection of Careswell Street and Colby Hewitt
    Lane..............................................
    Massachusetts Bay:
    Approximately 1,500 feet north of the intersection *11 of Bay Street and Canal Street....................
    Approximately 896 feet east of the intersection of *23 Cove Street and Central Street....................
    Massachusetts Bay, Green Harbor River:
    Approximately 400 feet west of the intersection of *10 Meetinghouse Lane and Stagecoach Drive............
    Massachusetts Bay:
    At the intersection of Hancock Street and Ashburton 2 Avenue............................................
    Maps available for inspection at the Marshfield Town
    Hall, Building Department, 870 Moraine Street,
    Marshfield, Massachusetts.
    (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 83.100, ``Flood Insurance.'')

    Dated: February 3, 2006.
    David I. Maurstad,
    Acting Director, Mitigation Division, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
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    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

    Doug Bellomo, P.E., Hazard Identification Section, FEMA, 500 C Street SW., Washington, DC 20472, (202) 6462903.