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,. 2 Appeals of the proposed BFEs shall be based solely on scientific or technical evidence contrary to that of the proposed revised FIS report and FIRM. However, inquiries regarding data other than the proposed BFE determinations (e.g., incorrect street names, typographical errors, omissions) will be considered by FEMA, and any applicable changes will be made before the revised FIS report and FIRM become effective. Private persons who wish to appeal should present data that tend to negate or contradict our findings to you in such form as you may specify. We ask that you review and consolidate any appeal data you may receive, and issue a written opinion stating whether the evidence presented is sufficient to justify an official appeal on behalf of such persons by your community in its own name. Whether or not your community decides to appeal, you must send copies of appeal data from individuals, if any, to this office as they are received. If we do not receive an appeal from your community in its own name within 90 days of the second date of public notification, we shall consolidate and review on their own merits such appeal data from individuals that you may forward to us, and we shall make such modifications to the proposed BFE determinations as may be appropriate. If your community decides to appeal in its own name, all individuals' appeal data must be consolidated into one appeal by you, because, in this event, we are required to deal only with the local government as representative of all local interests. Our final decision will be in writing to you, and copies will be sent to each individual appellant and to the state coordinating agency. The appeal resolution process will take into account any scientific or technical data submitted by your community that tend to negate or contradict the information upon which the proposed BFE determinations are based. The appeal will be resolved by consultation with officials of the local government involved, by an administrative hearing, or by submission of the conflicting data to an independent scientific body or appropriate Federal agency for advice. The method for resolution will be determined by FEMA. The reports and other information used in making the final determination will be made available for public inspection. Until the conflict of data is resolved and the revised FIRM becomes effective, flood insurance available within your community shall continue to be available under the currently effective FIRM dated March 17, 1997, and no person shall be denied the right to purchase the applicable level of insurance at chargeable rates. The decision by your community to appeal, or a copy of its decision not to appeal, should be filed with this office no later than 90 days following the second publication of the proposed BFE determinations in the above-named newspaper. You may find it appropriate to call further attention to the proposed BFE determinations and to the appeal procedure by using a press release or other public notice. If warranted by substantive changes, this office will send to you during the appeal period revised copies of the FIS report and FIRM. At the end of the 90-day appeal period and following the resolution of any appeals, we shall send you a letter of final BFE determinations.