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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

CFR Citation: 44 CFR Part 67

NOTICE: RULES

DOCUMENT ACTION: Final rule.

SUBJECT CATEGORY: Final Flood Elevation Determinations

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

SUMMARY: Final Flood Elevation Determinations,


SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (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 Assistant Administrator of the Mitigation 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. 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 final rule is categorically excluded from the requirements of 44 CFR part 10, Environmental Consideration. An environmental impact assessment has not been prepared.

Regulatory Flexibility Act. As flood elevation determinations are not within the scope of the Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601 612, a regulatory flexibility analysis is not required.

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 final rule involves no policies that have federalism implications under Executive Order 13132.

Executive Order 12988, Civil Justice Reform. This final 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:
* Elevation in feet (NGVD) + Elevation in feet Flooding source(s) Location of referenced (NAVD) Communities affected elevation Depth in feet above ground. Modified Codington County, South Dakota and Incorporated Areas Docket No.: FEMAB7755 East Branch Roby Creek................. Approximately 200 feet +1,767 Unincorporated Areas of east of 11th Street Codington County, City Northeast. of Watertown. 14th Avenue Northeast.... +1,777 East Branch Roby Creek................. Approximately 400 feet +1,760 City of Watertown. west of 7th Street Northeast.
Approximately 200 feet +1,765 Unincorporated Areas of west of 11th Street Codington County. Northeast.
Lake Kampeska.......................... Approximately 200 feet +1,725 Unincorporated Areas of northeast of Codington County, City intersection of 448th of Watertown. Avenue and U.S. Highway 212.
Lake Kampeska.......................... Approximately 100 feet +1,725 City of Watertown, west of intersection of Unincorporated Areas of 452nd Avenue and Codington County. Stadheim Drive.
Pelican Lake........................... Approximately 700 feet +1,717 Unincorporated Areas of north of intersection of Codington County, City 174th Street and 452nd of Watertown. Avenue.
Pelican Lake........................... Junction of 21st Street +1,717 City of Watertown, SW and 12th Avenue SW. Unincorporated Areas of Codington County. Roby Creek............................. Approximately 4,500 feet +1,715 City of Watertown. downstream from U.S. Highway 212.
Approximately 100 feet +1,770 east of U.S. Highway 81. * National Geodetic Vertical Datum.
+ North American Vertical Datum.
Depth in feet above ground.
ADDRESSES City of Watertown
Maps are available for inspection at the Watertown City Hall, 23 Second St., NE., Watertown, South Dakota 57201. Unincorporated Areas of Codington County Maps are available for inspection at the Codington County Planning and Zoning Department, Codington County Extension Complex, 1910 West Kemp Avenue, Watertown, South Dakota 572013048. [[Page 46813]]
Grainger County, Tennessee, and Incorporated Areas Docket No.: FEMA B7749 Lea Creek.............................. Approximately 2,800 feet +913 Unincorporated Areas of upstream U.S. Highway 11. Grainger County. Approximately 4,200 feet +913 upstream U.S. Highway 11. Norris Lake............................ Approximately 5,200 feet +1032 Unincorporated Areas of downstream of the Grainger County. confluence of Black Fox Creek.
Approximately 2,500 feet +1032 downstream of U.S. Highway 25.
* National Geodetic Vertical Datum.
+ North American Vertical Datum.
Depth in feet above ground.
ADDRESSES Unincorporated Areas of Grainger County Maps are available for inspection at Grainger County Courthouse, P.O. Box 126, Rutledge, TN 37861. (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 97.022, ``Flood Insurance.'')

Dated: July 25, 2008.
Edward L. Connor,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Insurance, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. E818527 Filed 81108; 8:45 am]
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT William R. Blanton, Jr., Engineering Management Branch, Mitigation
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Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 20472, (202) 6463151.


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