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Flooding source(s)
Location of referenced elevation**
* Elevation in feet (NGVD)
+ Elevation in feet
(NAVD)
# Depth in feet above
ground
∧ Elevation in meters
(MSL)
Effective
Communities affected
Modified
Town of Whitman
Maps are available for inspection at the Town Hall, 54 South Avenue, Whitman, MA 02382.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No.
97.022, ‘‘Flood Insurance.’’)
Dated: August 5, 2011.
Sandra K. Knight,
Deputy Federal Insurance and Mitigation
Administrator, Mitigation, Department of
Homeland Security, Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
[Docket ID FEMA–2010–0003; Internal
Agency Docket No. FEMA–B–1126]
Proposed Flood Elevation
Determinations
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.
AGENCY:
On June 3, 2010, FEMA
published in the Federal Register a
proposed rule that included an
erroneous Base Flood Elevation (BFE)
description for Rowell Creek and
erroneous BFEs for Sal Taylor Creek
Tributary 2 in Duval County, Florida.
This notice corrects the errors
previously published for Rowell Creek
and Sal Taylor Creek Tributary 2 in
Duval County, Florida.
DATES: Comments pertaining to the
Rowell Creek BFEs, from the location
approximately 650 feet upstream of
Secluded Avenue to the location
approximately 0.51 mile upstream of the
intersection of Inspiration Avenue and
D Avenue, and comments pertaining to
the Sal Taylor Creek Tributary 2 BFEs,
from the location at the confluence with
Sal Taylor Creek to the location
approximately 1,500 feet upstream of
the confluence with Sal Taylor Creek
Tributary 3, are to be submitted on or
before November 14, 2011.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. FEMA–B–
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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 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 also are
used to calculate the appropriate flood
insurance premium rates for new
buildings built after these elevations are
made final, and for the contents in those
buildings.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
44 CFR Part 67
SUMMARY:
1126, to Luis Rodriguez, Chief,
Engineering Management Branch,
Federal Insurance and Mitigation
Administration, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646–4064
or (e-mail) luis.rodriguez1@dhs.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Luis
Rodriguez, Chief, Engineering
Management Branch, Federal Insurance
and Mitigation Administration, Federal
Emergency Management Agency, 500 C
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20472,
(202) 646–4064 or (e-mail)
luis.rodriguez1@dhs.gov.
Corrections
In the proposed rule published at 75
FR 31347, in the June 3, 2010, issue of
the Federal Register, FEMA published a
table under the authority of 44 CFR
67.4. The table, entitled ‘‘Duval County,
Florida, and Incorporated Areas’’
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addressed a number of flooding sources,
including Rowell Creek and Sal Taylor
Creek Tributary 2.
The proposed rule incorrectly listed
the Rowell Creek location description
for the modified BFE of 80 feet,
referenced to the North American
Vertical Datum of 1988, as being
approximately 650 feet upstream of
Secluded Avenue. The correct location
of this modified BFE is approximately
0.51 mile upstream of the intersection of
Inspiration Avenue and D Avenue. The
proposed rule also incorrectly listed the
modified BFEs for Sal Taylor Creek
Tributary 2, for both the location at the
confluence with Sal Taylor Creek and
the location approximately 1,500 feet
upstream of the confluence with Sal
Taylor Creek Tributary 3. The modified
BFE for the location at the confluence
with Sal Taylor Creek was listed as 61
feet, referenced to the North American
Vertical Datum of 1988. The correct
modified BFE for that location is 62 feet,
referenced to the North American
Vertical Datum of 1988. The modified
BFE for the location approximately
1,500 feet upstream of the confluence
with Sal Taylor Creek Tributary 3 was
listed as 67 feet, referenced to the North
American Vertical Datum of 1988. The
correct modified BFE for that location is
68 feet, referenced to the North
American Vertical Datum of 1988. The
effective BFEs were listed correctly in
the proposed rule.
This proposed rule correction is
reopening the comment period for
Rowell Creek, for the proposed BFE at
the location approximately 650 feet
upstream of Secluded Avenue, where a
modified BFE of 67 feet, referenced to
the North American Vertical Datum of
1988, is proposed, due to the error in
listing the location description for the
Rowell Creek BFE of 80 feet, referenced
to the North American Vertical Datum
of 1988, in the previously published
proposed rule at 75 FR 31347. This
proposed rule also is opening a
comment period for Rowell Creek from
the location approximately 650 feet
upstream of Secluded Avenue to the
location approximately 0.51 mile
upstream of the intersection of
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Inspiration Avenue and D Avenue,
where a modified BFE of 80 feet,
referenced to the North American
Vertical Datum of 1988, is proposed,
due to the error in listing the location
description for the Rowell Creek BFE of
80 feet, referenced to the North
American Vertical Datum of 1988, in the
previously published proposed rule at
75 FR 31347. In addition, this proposed
rule is reopening the comment period
for Sal Taylor Creek Tributary 2, from
the location at the confluence with Sal
Taylor Creek, where a modified BFE of
62 feet, referenced to the North
American Vertical Datum of 1988, is
proposed, to the location approximately
1,500 feet upstream of the confluence
with Sal Taylor Creek Tributary 3,
where a modified BFE of 68 feet,
referenced to the North American
Vertical Datum of 1988, is proposed,
due to the error in listing the modified
BFEs for this flooding source in the
previously published proposed rule at
75 FR 31347.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No.
97.022, ‘‘Flood Insurance.’’)
Dated: August 5, 2011.
Sandra K. Knight,
Federal Insurance and Mitigation
Administrator, Mitigation, Department of
Homeland Security, Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
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DPS of steelhead (Oncorhynchus
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writing to us at: NMFS Southwest
Region, 501 W. Ocean Blvd., Suite 4200,
Long Beach, CA 90802; Attn: Craig
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ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Craig Wingert at the above address or at
(562) 980–4021.
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year reviews indicate that these species
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Coastal Chinook salmon and Central
California Coast coho salmon should be
considered. Our 5-year review also
recommends that six hatchery stocks
should be removed from the California
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On March 18, 2010, NMFS announced
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DPSs in California, Oregon, Washington,
and Idaho (75 FR 13082). Both ESUs
and DPSs are treated as ‘‘species’’ under
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concerned governmental agencies,
Tribes, the scientific community,
environmental entities, and other
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This notice of availability addresses
our completed 5-year reviews for: (1)
Southern Oregon/Northern California
coho salmon; (2) California Coastal
Chinook salmon; (3) Central California
Coast coho salmon; (4) Sacramento
River winter-run Chinook salmon; (5)
Central Valley spring-run Chinook
salmon; and (6) Central Valley
steelhead. The results of 5-year reviews
for the other ESUs and DPSs discussed
in the March 18, 2010 notice of
initiation will be announced in
forthcoming notices from the NMFS
Southwest and Northwest Regions,
respectively.
We used a two-step process to
complete the reviews. First, we asked
scientists from our Southwest Fisheries
Science Center to collect and analyze
new information about each species’
viability. To evaluate each species’
viability, our scientists applied the
agency’s Viable Salmonid Population
(VSP) framework, which relies on
evaluating four key population
parameters (abundance, productivity,
spatial structure, and diversity). Using
this framework, they compiled and
evaluated all new relevant information
on these four parameters and then
updated the overall viability status of
each species. They also considered new
genetic and biogeographic information
related to each species’ freshwater and
estuarine geographic boundaries. At the
end of this process, the Center prepared
a report detailing the results and
conclusions from their analyses.
Fishery biologists from the Southwest
Region and its field offices completed
the second step in the review process.
These biologists reviewed new
information on the five ESA 4(a)(1)
factors considered when determining if
a species should be listed as threatened
or endangered, including: (1) The
present or threatened destruction,
modification, or curtailment of its
habitat or range; (2) overutilization for
commercial, recreational, scientific, or
educational purposes; (3) disease or
predation; (4) inadequacy of existing
regulatory mechanisms; and, (5) other
natural or man-made factors affecting its
continued existence. They also
evaluated new information on hatchery
programs associated with each species
to inform an updated assessment about
whether specific hatchery programs
should be considered part of the species
that were evaluated. In doing so, they
applied our Policy Addressing the Role
of Artificially Propagated Pacific
Salmon and Steelhead in Listing
Determinations under the ESA (70 FR
37204). The 5-year review reports
prepared by the Southwest Region, the
Southwest Science Center’s updated
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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-1126]
Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.
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SUMMARY: On June 3, 2010, FEMA published in the Federal Register a
proposed rule that included an erroneous Base Flood Elevation (BFE)
description for Rowell Creek and erroneous BFEs for Sal Taylor Creek
Tributary 2 in Duval County, Florida. This notice corrects the errors
previously published for Rowell Creek and Sal Taylor Creek Tributary 2
in Duval County, Florida.
DATES: Comments pertaining to the Rowell Creek BFEs, from the location
approximately 650 feet upstream of Secluded Avenue to the location
approximately 0.51 mile upstream of the intersection of Inspiration
Avenue and D Avenue, and comments pertaining to the Sal Taylor Creek
Tributary 2 BFEs, from the location at the confluence with Sal Taylor
Creek to the location approximately 1,500 feet upstream of the
confluence with Sal Taylor Creek Tributary 3, are to be submitted on or
before November 14, 2011.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. FEMA-B-
1126, to Luis Rodriguez, Chief, Engineering Management Branch, Federal
Insurance and Mitigation Administration, Federal Emergency Management
Agency, 500 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646-4064 or (e-
mail) luis.rodriguez1@dhs.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Luis Rodriguez, Chief, Engineering
Management Branch, Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration,
Federal Emergency Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW., Washington, DC
20472, (202) 646-4064 or (e-mail) luis.rodriguez1@dhs.gov.
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 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
also are used to calculate the appropriate flood insurance premium
rates for new buildings built after these elevations are made final,
and for the contents in those buildings.
Corrections
In the proposed rule published at 75 FR 31347, in the June 3, 2010,
issue of the Federal Register, FEMA published a table under the
authority of 44 CFR 67.4. The table, entitled ``Duval County, Florida,
and Incorporated Areas'' addressed a number of flooding sources,
including Rowell Creek and Sal Taylor Creek Tributary 2.
The proposed rule incorrectly listed the Rowell Creek location
description for the modified BFE of 80 feet, referenced to the North
American Vertical Datum of 1988, as being approximately 650 feet
upstream of Secluded Avenue. The correct location of this modified BFE
is approximately 0.51 mile upstream of the intersection of Inspiration
Avenue and D Avenue. The proposed rule also incorrectly listed the
modified BFEs for Sal Taylor Creek Tributary 2, for both the location
at the confluence with Sal Taylor Creek and the location approximately
1,500 feet upstream of the confluence with Sal Taylor Creek Tributary
3. The modified BFE for the location at the confluence with Sal Taylor
Creek was listed as 61 feet, referenced to the North American Vertical
Datum of 1988. The correct modified BFE for that location is 62 feet,
referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988. The modified
BFE for the location approximately 1,500 feet upstream of the
confluence with Sal Taylor Creek Tributary 3 was listed as 67 feet,
referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988. The correct
modified BFE for that location is 68 feet, referenced to the North
American Vertical Datum of 1988. The effective BFEs were listed
correctly in the proposed rule.
This proposed rule correction is reopening the comment period for
Rowell Creek, for the proposed BFE at the location approximately 650
feet upstream of Secluded Avenue, where a modified BFE of 67 feet,
referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988, is proposed,
due to the error in listing the location description for the Rowell
Creek BFE of 80 feet, referenced to the North American Vertical Datum
of 1988, in the previously published proposed rule at 75 FR 31347. This
proposed rule also is opening a comment period for Rowell Creek from
the location approximately 650 feet upstream of Secluded Avenue to the
location approximately 0.51 mile upstream of the intersection of
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Inspiration Avenue and D Avenue, where a modified BFE of 80 feet,
referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988, is proposed,
due to the error in listing the location description for the Rowell
Creek BFE of 80 feet, referenced to the North American Vertical Datum
of 1988, in the previously published proposed rule at 75 FR 31347. In
addition, this proposed rule is reopening the comment period for Sal
Taylor Creek Tributary 2, from the location at the confluence with Sal
Taylor Creek, where a modified BFE of 62 feet, referenced to the North
American Vertical Datum of 1988, is proposed, to the location
approximately 1,500 feet upstream of the confluence with Sal Taylor
Creek Tributary 3, where a modified BFE of 68 feet, referenced to the
North American Vertical Datum of 1988, is proposed, due to the error in
listing the modified BFEs for this flooding source in the previously
published proposed rule at 75 FR 31347.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 97.022, ``Flood
Insurance.'')
Dated: August 5, 2011.
Sandra K. Knight,
Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administrator, Mitigation, Department
of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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