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Page 2 cf 4 Issue Date: MAR 2 0 2007 Effective Date: MAR 2 0 2007 Case No.: 06-0B-B21BP LOMR-APP Federal Emergency Management Agency Washington, D.C. 20472 LETTER OF MAP REVISION DETERMINATION DOCUMENT (CONTINUED) COMMUNITY INFORMATION APPLICABLE NFlP REGULATIONS/COMMUNITY OBLIGATION We have made this determination pursuant to Section 206 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 (P.L. 93-234) and in accordance with the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended (Title XIII of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, P.L. 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, as amended, communities participating in the NFIP are required to adopt and enforce floodplain management regulations that meet or exceed NFIP criteria. These criteria, including adoption ofthe FIS report and FIRM, and the modifications made by this LOMR, are the minimum requirements for continued NFIP participation and do not supersede more stringent State or local requirements to which the regulations apply. NFIP regulations Subparagraph 60.3(b)(7) requires communities to 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 ordinances; therefore, responsibility for maintenance of the altered or relocated watercourse, including any related appurtenances such as bridges, culverts, and other drainage structures, rests with your community. We may request that your community submit a description and schedule of maintenance activities necessary to ensure this requirement. COMMUNITY REMINDERS We based this determination on the I-percent-annual-chance discharges computed in the submitted hydrologic model. Future development of projects upstream could cause increased discharges, which could cause increased flood hazards. A comprehensive restudy of your community's flood hazards would consider the cumulative effects of development on discharges and could, therefore, indicate that greater flood hazards exist in this area. Your community must regulate all proposed floodplain development and ensure that permits required by Federal and/or State law have been obtained. State or community officials, based on knowledge of local conditions and in the interest of safety, may set higher standards for construction or may limit development in floodplain areas. If your State or community has adopted more restrictive or comprehensive floodplain management criteria, those criteria take precedence over the minimum NFIP requirements. We will not print and distribute this LOMR to primary users, such as local insurance agents or mortgage lenders; instead, the community will serve as a repository for the new data. We encourage you to disseminate the information in this LOMR by preparing a news release for publication in your community's newspaper that describes the revision and explains how your community will provide the data and help interpret the NFIP maps. In that way, interested persons, such as property owners, insurance agents, and mortgage lenders, can benefit from the information. This detennination is based on the flood data presently available. The enclosed documents provide addilional infonnation regarding this delennination. If you have any questions about this document, please contact the FEMA Map Assistance Cenrer toll free at 1-877-336-2627 (1-877-FEMA MAP) or by leller addressed to the lOMR Depol, 3601 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22304. Addilionallnformalion about the NFIP is available on our web site at hllp:lfwww.fema.gov/nfip ~~ Patrick F. Sacbibit, P.E., CFM, Projecl Engineer Engineering Management Section M~igalion Division 10977010.3.1,0608B218 102-0