Federal Register: March 25, 2009 (Volume , Number )

DOCID: fr25mr09-68 FR Doc E9-6704

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

CFR Citation: 44 CFR Part 67

Docket ID: [Docket ID FEMA-2008-0020; Internal Agency Docket No. FEMA-B-1016]

NOTICE: PROPOSED RULES

DOCID: fr25mr09-68

DOCUMENT ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.

SUBJECT CATEGORY:

Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations

DOCUMENT SUMMARY:

On November 5, 2008, FEMA published in the Federal Register a proposed rule that contained an erroneous table. This notice provides corrections to that table, to be used in lieu of the information published at 73 FR 65816 through 65817. The table provided here represents the flooding source, location of referenced elevation, effective and modified elevation, and communities affected for St. Joseph County, Michigan (All Jurisdictions).

SUMMARY:

Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations; Correction,

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) publishes proposed determinations of Base (1% annualchance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) and modified BFEs for communities participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), in accordance with section 110 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 4104, and 44 CFR 67.4(a).

These proposed BFEs and modified BFEs, together with the floodplain management criteria required by 44 CFR 60.3, are the minimum that are required. They should not be construed to mean that the community must change any existing ordinances that are more stringent in their floodplain management requirements. The community may at any time enact stricter requirements of its own, or pursuant to policies established by other Federal, State, or regional entities. These proposed elevations are used to meet the floodplain management requirements of the NFIP and are also used to calculate the appropriate flood insurance premium rates for new buildings built after these elevations are made final, and for the contents in these buildings.

Correction

In the proposed rule published at 73 FR 65816 through 65817, in the November 5, 2008 issue of the Federal Register, FEMA published a table under the authority of 44 CFR 67.4. The table, entitled ``St. Joseph County, Michigan and Incorporated Areas'' addressed flooding sources countywide. That table contained inaccurate information as to the location of referenced elevation, effective and modified elevation in feet, or communities affected for these flooding sources. In this notice, FEMA is publishing a table containing the accurate information, to address these prior errors. The information provided below should be used in lieu of that previously published notice.
* Elevation in feet (NGVD) + Elevation in feet (NAVD) Depth in feet above Flooding source(s) Location of referenced ground [caret] Communities affected elevation** Elevation in meters (MSL) Effective Modified St. Joseph County, Michigan, and Incorporated Areas Adams Lake.......................... Entire shoreline of None +843 Township of Leonidas. Adams Lake.
Clear Lake.......................... Entire shoreline of None +876 Township of Fabius. Clear Lake.
Corey Lake.......................... Entire shoreline of None +877 Township of Fabius. Corey Lake.
Fishers Lake........................ Entire shoreline of None +815 Township of Park. Fishers Lake.
Flowerfield Creek................... Approximately 0.8 mile None +817 Township of downstream of M 216 Flowerfield. (Marcellus Road).
Approximately 0.3 mile None +842 upstream of Main
Street on the St.
Joseph County/
Kalamazoo County
border.
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Kaiser Lake......................... Entire shoreline of None +877 Township of Fabius. Kaiser Lake.
Lake Templene....................... Entire shoreline of None +831 Township of Sherman. Lake Templene.
Long Lake........................... Entire shoreline of None +892 Township of Fabius. Long Lake.
Mud Lake............................ Entire shoreline of Mud None +877 Township of Fabius. Lake.
Pleasant Lake....................... Entire shoreline of None +853 Township of Fabius. Pleasant Lake.
Spring Creek........................ At confluence with None +821 Township of Flowerfield Creek. Flowerfield, Township of Park. Approximately 0.6 mile None +844 upstream of Quake Road on the St. Joseph
County/Kalamazoo
County border.
St. Joseph River.................... Approximately 0.7 mile None +829 Township of Mendon. downstream of Wakeman Road.
Approximately 350 feet None +829 downstream of Wakeman road.
Unnamed pond........................ Entire shoreline of None +815 Township of Park. Unnamed pond.

Dated: January 27, 2009.
Michael K. Buckley,
Acting Assistant Administrator, Mitigation Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

William R. Blanton, Jr., Chief, Engineering Management Branch, Mitigation Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 20472, (202) 6463151 or (email) bill.blanton@dhs.gov.