FLOOD10576

• County: Gilpin
• Community: Black Hawk
• Stream Name: North Clear Creek
• Title: LOMR - Affected Panel 0001 B - Case No. 01-08-251P
• Date: 6/20/2002
• Prepared For: Black Hawk
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Historic FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

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The following table is a partial listing of existing and modified BFEs:

Location

Existing BFE
(feet)*

Modified BFE
(feet) *

Approximately 800 feet downstream of
former Main Street bridge
Approximately 900 feet downstream of
former Main Street bridge
Approximately 530 feet upstream of
former Main Street bridge

7,942

7,940

7,936

7,937

7,975

7,976

*Referenced to the National Geodetic Vertical Datum, rounded to the nearest whole foot

Public notification of the proposed modified BFEs will be given in the Weekly Register Call on or about
March 15 and March 22, 2002. A copy of this notification is enclosed. In addition, a notice of changes
will be published in the Federal Register. Within 90 days of the second publication in the Weekly
Register Call, any interested party may request that FEMA reconsider the determination made by this
LOMR. Any request for reconsideration must be based on scientific or technical data. All interested
parties are on notice that, until the 90-day period elapses, the determination to modify the BFEs made by
this LOMR may itself be modified.

Because this LOMR will not be printed and distributed to primary users, such as local insurance agents
and mortgage lenders, your community will serve as a repository for these new data. We encourage you
to disseminate the information reflected by this LOMR throughout the community, so that interested
persons, such as property owners, local insurance agents, and mortgage lenders, may benefit from the
information. We also encourage you to prepare a related article for publication in your community's local
newspaper. This article should describe the assistance that officials of your community will give to
interested persons by providing these data and interpreting the NFIP maps.

We will not physically revise and republish the FIRM and FIS report for your community to reflect the
modifications made by this LOMR at this time. When changes to the previously cited FIRM panel and
FIS report warrant physical revision and republication in the future, we will incorporate the modifications
made by this LOMR at that time.

This LOMR is based on minimum floodplain management criteria established under the NFIP. Your
community is responsible for approving all floodplain development and for ensuring all necessary permits
required by Federal or State law have been received. State, county, and community officials, based on
knowledge of local conditions and in the interest of safety, may set higher standards for construction in
the SFHA. If the State, county, or community has adopted more restrictive or comprehensive floodplain
management criteria, these criteria take precedence over the minimum NFIP criteria.

The basis ofthis LOMR is, in whole or in part, a channel-modification project. NFIP regulations, as cited
in Paragraph 60.3(b )(7), require that communities ensure that the flood-carrying capacity within the
altered or relocated portion of any watercourse is maintained. This provision is incorporated into your
community's existing floodplain management regulations. Consequently, the ultimate responsibility for
maintenance ofthe modified channel rests with your community.

This determination has been made pursuant to Section 206 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973
(Public Law 93-234) and is in accordance with the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended
(Title XIII of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Public Law 90-448),42 U.S.c.
4001-4128, and 44 CFR Part 65. Pursuant to Section 1361 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968,