
[Federal Register: February 5, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 24)]
[Proposed Rules]               
[Page 5930-5931]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

44 CFR Part 67

[Docket ID FEMA-2010-0003; [Internal Agency Docket No. FEMA-B-1053]

 
Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: FEMA is correcting a table for Ransom County, North Dakota, 
and Incorporated Areas.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kevin C. Long, Acting Chief, 
Engineering Management Branch, Mitigation Directorate, Federal 
Emergency Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 20472, 
(202) 646-2820 or (e-mail) kevin.long@dhs.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Federal Emergency Management Agency 
(FEMA) proposes 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 minimum 
requirements. 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

    FEMA is correcting a table in a proposed rule which published on 
May 26, 2009, at 74 FR 24729. The table for Ransom County, North 
Dakota, and Incorporated Areas contained incorrect information for the 
flooding source ``Sheyenne River.''
    The May 26, 2009, proposed rule contained a table entitled ``Ransom 
County, North Dakota, and Incorporated Areas,'' which contained errors. 
For flooding source ``Sheyenne River,'' the table contained inaccurate 
information as to the communities affected. FEMA is now publishing a 
revised table for Ransom County, North Dakota, and Incorporated Areas, 
containing the accurate information, to address these prior errors. The 
information provided in the table below should be used in lieu of the 
table published on May 26, 2009.

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                                                                  * Elevation in feet
                                                                (NGVD)  + Elevation in
                                                                feet (NAVD)  
                                       Location of referenced     Depth in feet above
         Flooding source(s)                 elevation **       ground [caret] Elevation    Communities affected
                                                                    in meters (MSL)
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                                                                Effective     Modified
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                               Ransom County, North Dakota, and Incorporated Areas
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Sheyenne River......................  Approximately 1,064             None         +990  City of Fort Ransom,
                                       feet upstream of                                   City of Lisbon,
                                       Richland County                                    Unincorporated Areas
                                       boundary.                                          of Ransom County.
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                                      Approximately 7,465             None       +1,160
                                       feet downstream of
                                       State Highway 46.
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* National Geodetic Vertical Datum.
 Depth in feet above ground.
+ North American Vertical Datum.
[caret] Mean Sea Level, rounded to the nearest 0.1 meter.

** BFEs to be changed include the listed downstream and upstream BFEs, and include BFEs located on the stream
 reach between the referenced locations above. Please refer to the revised Flood Insurance Rate Map located at
 the community map repository (see below) for exact locations of all BFEs to be changed.

Send comments to Kevin C. Long, Acting Chief, Engineering Management Branch, Mitigation Directorate, Federal
 Emergency Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 20472.

                                                    ADDRESSES
City of Fort Ransom
Maps are available for inspection at P.O. Box 17, Fort Ransom, ND 58033.

City of Lisbon
Maps are available for inspection at P.O. Box 1079, Lisbon, ND 58054.

                                      Unincorporated Areas of Ransom County

Maps are available for inspection at 204 5th Avenue West, Lisbon, ND 58054-4115.
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(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 97.022, ``Flood 
Insurance.'')

Sandra K. Knight,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Mitigation, Department of Homeland 
Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. 2010-2491 Filed 2-4-10; 8:45 am]
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