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<br />, <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br /> <br />The following table is a partial listing of existing and modified BFEs: <br /> <br /> Existing BFE Modified BFE <br />Location (feet)- (feet)- <br />1 Approximately 1,400 feet upstream of <br />confluence with Sand Creek 5,273 5,274 <br />1 Approximately 2,600 feet upstream of <br />confluence with Sand Creek None 5,280 <br />'Approximately 2,600 feet downstream of <br />Montview Boulevard 5,306 5,292 <br />1,3 Approximately 700 feet downstream of <br />Montview Boulevard 5,306 5,305 <br /> <br />-Referenced to the National Geodetic Vertical Datum, rounded to the nearest whole foot <br />I City and County of Denver <br />'City and County of Denver/City of Aurora corporate boundary <br />3City of Aurora <br /> <br />Public notification of the proposed modified BFEs will be given in the Denver Post on or about May 15 <br />and May 22,2003, A copy of this notification is enclosed, In addition, a notice of changes will be <br />published in the Federal Register. Within 90 days of the second publication in the Denver Post, any <br />interested party may request that FEMA reconsider the deternrination made by this LOMR. Any request <br />for reconsideration must be based on scientific or technical data, All interested parties are on notice that, <br />until the 90-day period elapses, the deternrination to modify the BFEs made by this LOMR may itself be <br />modified, <br /> <br />Because this LOMR will not be printed and distributed to primary users, such as local insurance agents and <br />mortgage lenders, your community will serve as a repository for these new data. We encourage you to <br />disseminate the information reflected by this LOMR throughout the community, so that interested persons, <br />such as property owners, local insurance agents, and mortgage lenders, may benefit from the information. <br />We also encourage you to prepare a related article for publication in your community's local newspaper, <br />This article should describe the assistance that officials of your community will give to interested persons <br />by providing these data and interpreting the NFIP maps. <br /> <br />We will not physicallyrevise and republish the FIRM and FIS report for your community to reflect the <br />modifications made by this LOMR at this time, When changes to the previously cited FIRM panels and <br />FIS report warrant physical revision and republication in the future, we will incorporate the modifications <br />made by this LOMR at that time. <br /> <br />The floodway is provided to your community as a tool to regulate floodplain development. Therefore, the <br />floodway modifications described in this LOMR, while acceptable to FEMA, must also be acceptable to <br />your community and adopted by appropriate community action, as specified in Paragraph 603(d) of the <br />NFIP regulations. <br /> <br />This LOMR is based on minimwn floodplain management criteria established under the NFIP, Your <br />community is responsible for approving all floodplain development and for ensuring all necessary permits <br />required by Federal or State law have been received, State, county, and community officials, based on <br />knowledge of local conditions and in the interest of safety, may set higher standards for construction in the <br />SFHA. If the State, county, or community has adopted more restrictive or comprehensive floodplain <br />management criteria, these criteria take precedence over the minimwn NFIP criteria, <br />