E9-6704. Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations

AGENCY:

Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION:

Proposed rule; correction.

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).

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, [phone] or (e-mail) [e-mail].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) publishes proposed determinations of Base (1% annual-chance) 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.

Flooding source(s)	Location of referenced elevation**	* Elevation in feet (NGVD) + Elevation in feet (NAVD) # Depth in feet above ground ⁁ Elevation in meters (MSL)		Communities affected
		Effective	Modified
St. Joseph County, Michigan, and Incorporated Areas
Adams Lake	Entire shoreline of Adams Lake	None	+843	Township of Leonidas.
Clear Lake	Entire shoreline of Clear Lake	None	+876	Township of Fabius.
Corey Lake	Entire shoreline of Corey Lake	None	+877	Township of Fabius.
Fishers Lake	Entire shoreline of Fishers Lake	None	+815	Township of Park.
Flowerfield Creek	Approximately 0.8 mile downstream of M 216 (Marcellus Road)	None	+817	Township of Flowerfield.
	Approximately 0.3 mile upstream of Main Street on the St. Joseph County/Kalamazoo County border	None	+842
Kaiser Lake	Entire shoreline of Kaiser Lake	None	+877	Township of Fabius.
Lake Templene	Entire shoreline of Lake Templene	None	+831	Township of Sherman.
Long Lake	Entire shoreline of Long Lake	None	+892	Township of Fabius.
Mud Lake	Entire shoreline of Mud Lake	None	+877	Township of Fabius.
Pleasant Lake	Entire shoreline of Pleasant Lake	None	+853	Township of Fabius.
Spring Creek	At confluence with Flowerfield Creek	None	+821	Township of Flowerfield, Township of Park.
	Approximately 0.6 mile upstream of Quake Road on the St. Joseph County/Kalamazoo County border	None	+844
St. Joseph River	Approximately 0.7 mile downstream of Wakeman Road	None	+829	Township of Mendon.
	Approximately 350 feet downstream of Wakeman road	None	+829
Unnamed pond	Entire shoreline of Unnamed pond	None	+815	Township of Park.

Dated: January 27, 2009.

Michael K. Buckley,

Acting Assistant Administrator, Mitigation Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency.