FLOOD07318 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

.' 3 Public notification of the proposed modified BFEs will be given in the Erie Review on or about April 28 and May 5,2004. 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 Erie Review, any interested party may request that FEMA reconsider the detennination 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 detennination 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 infonnation. We also encourage you to prepare a related article for publication in your community's local newspaper. lbis article should describe the assistance that officials of your community will give to interested persons by providing these data and intel}lreting the NFIP maps. We are currently processing a revised FIRM and FIS report for your community. Preliminary copies of the revised FIRM and FIS report were submitted to your community for review on December 31, 2002. Based on comments received regarding the December 31 Preliminary FIRM and FIS report, a Revised Preliminary FIRM and FIS report are scheduled to be delivered for community review in approximately 2 weeks. We will incol}lorate the modifications made by this LOMR into the Revised Preliminary FIRM and FIS report. The floodway is provided to your community as a tool to regulate floodplain development. Therefore, the floodway modifications described in this LOMR. while acceptable to FEMA. must also be acceptable to your community and adopted by appropriate community action, as specified in Paragraph 60.3(d) of the NFIP regulations. lbis LOMR is based on minimwn 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 minimwn NFIP criteria. lbis 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 Xli of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Public Law 90-448), 42 U.S.C, 4001-4128, and 44 CFR Part 65. Pursuantto 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 minimwn NFIP criteria. These criteria are the minimwn and do not supersede any State or local requirements of a mote stringenf nature, lbis includes adoption of the effective FIRM to which the regulations apply and the modifications described in this LOMR. Our records show that your community has met this requirement.