[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 197 (Thursday, October 10, 2024)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 82182]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-23397]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
44 CFR Part 9
[Docket ID FEMA-2023-0026]
RIN 1660-AB12
Updates to Floodplain Management and Protection of Wetlands
Regulations To Implement the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard;
Correction
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: Final rule; correcting amendment.
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SUMMARY: On July 11, 2024, the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) published a final rule implementing the Federal Flood Risk
Management Standard (FFRMS), updating the agency's 8-step decision-
making process for floodplain reviews by changing how FEMA defines a
floodplain with respect to certain actions and how FEMA uses natural
systems, ecosystem processes, and nature-based approaches when
developing alternatives to locating a proposed action in the
floodplain. The rule contained two errors which this document corrects.
DATES: This rule is effective October 10, 2024 and is applicable
beginning September 9, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Portia Ross, Policy and Integration
Division Director, Office of Environmental Planning and Historic
Preservation, Resilience, DHS/FEMA, 400 C St. SW, Suite 313,
Washington, DC 20472-3020. Phone: (202) 709-0677; Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 11, 2024, at 89 FR 56929, FEMA
published a final rule implementing the FFRMS. The rule contained two
errors. The first error is typographical, capitalizing a word in a
defined term in Sec. 9.4 which should be lowercased. The second error
is a procedural error in the instruction and text for the amendment to
Sec. 9.9. Paragraph (d) was instructed to be fully revised, but the
full paragraph was not presented in the amendatory text. This document
corrects both errors.
List of Subjects in 44 CFR Part 9
Floodplains, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
For the reasons discussed in the preamble, the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) is amending 44 CFR part 9 by making the
following correcting amendments.
PART 9--FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION OF WETLANDS
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1. The authority citation for part 9 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 6 U.S.C. 101 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.; 42
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.; E.O. 11988 of May 24, 1977, 42 FR 26951, 3 CFR,
1977 Comp., p. 117; E.O. 11990 of May 24, 1977, 42 FR 26961, 3 CFR,
1977 Comp. p. 121; E.O. 13690, 80 FR 6425; E.O. 14030, 86 FR 27967.
Sec. 9.4 [Corrected]
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2. Correct Sec. 9.4 in the definition of ``0.2 Percent annual chance
floodplain'' by removing ``Percent'' and adding ``percent'' in its
place.
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3. Correct Sec. 9.9 by removing paragraphs (1) and (2) following
paragraph (c)(5) and adding paragraph (d) in their place.
The addition reads as follows:
Sec. 9.9 Analysis and reevaluation of practicable alternatives.
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(d) Action following the analysis of practicable alternatives. (1)
The Agency shall not locate the proposed action in the floodplain as
established by Sec. 9.7(c) or in a wetland if a practicable
alternative exists outside the floodplain or wetland.
(2) If no practicable alternative exists outside the floodplain or
wetland, in order to carry out the action the floodplain or wetland
must itself be a practicable location in light of the review required
in this section.
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Deanne Criswell,
Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. 2024-23397 Filed 10-9-24; 8:45 am]
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