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August 17, 1989
Mr. John L. Matticks
Chief, Risk Studies Division
Federal Insurance Administration
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Washington, DC 20472
Dear Mr. Matticks:
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P.O. Box 478
Coppell, Texas 75019
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This is in response to your July 21, 1989 letter, (Copy Attached). You
asked for a response within thirty (30) days. Please consider this letter
as that response, and please provide us an additional eighteen (18) days
to respond.
Due to various events, such as our current FY 1989 -90 budget development
process, as well as other matters, and the fact that we had to retain a
Hydraulics Consultant to properly respond to you, we respectfully request
extending that deadline for eighteen (18) days (i.e. forty -eight days
total). We will then be able to respond in an appropriate manner.
We appreciate your indulgence in this matter, and if there are any
questions, please feel free to call Russell R. Doyle, P.E., City
Engineer /Floodplain Administrator, or Shohre Daneshmand, Civil Engineer.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Mark Wolfe
Mayor
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xc: Alan D. Ratliff, City Manager
Ron Morrison, Consultant
Russell R. Doyle, P.E., City Engineer
Shohre Daneshmand, Civil Engineer
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The Honorable Lou Duggan Community: City of Coppell,
Mayor of the City of Coppell Dallas and Denton
P.O. Box 478 Counties, Texas
Coppell, Texas 75019 -Community No.: 480170
Dear Mayor Duggan:
This is in response to a June 12, 1989 letter from Mr. Russell R. Doyle, P.E.,
City Engineer and Floodplain Administrator for the City of Coppell. In his
letter, Mr. Doyle requested an update on the status of a January 12, 1989
letter in which he requested that the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) revise the September 22, 1988 preliminary Flood Insurance Study (FIS)
and Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for the City of Coppell to include updated
corporate limits information and the results of an untitled technical report
prepared by Kimley -Horn and Associates, Inc., consulting engineers for the
City of Coppell. In addition, Mr. Doyle inquired about the status of the 90-
day period provided for appeals and comments on the preliminary FIS and FIRM.
We have completed our review of the submitted technical report. In a July 3,
1989 .letter to you, we identified a number of concerns that must be resolved
before FEMA will revise the preliminary FIS and FIRM for the City of Coppell
to include the information in this technical report. Please note these
concerns must be addressed within 30 days of the date of this letter.
In addition, as indicated in Mr. Doyle's letter, the notice of proposed
modified Base (100 -year) Flood Elevation (BFE) determinations failed to run on
March 15, 1989, as we had requested. Therefore, it was necessary to schedule
two new dates of publication in the Coppell Gazette as required by Section
67.4 of the National Flood Insurance Program regulations. This section
requires that the proposed BFEs be published twice during the ten -day period
immediately following the notification of the community's Chief Executive
Officer. Accordingly, on March 29, 1Q89, zant a letter informing you of
yet another set of publication dates on which we requested the Coppell Gazette
publish. That notice of proposed modified BFEs was at last published on
April 5, 1989, and April 12, 1989. Therefore, the period for comments or
appeals began on April 12, 1989, and ended on July 11, 1989. However, we will
delay the finalization of the preliminary FIS and FIRM and the establishment
\of an effective date, until we have evaluated any data received within the
next 30 days. If we have received no data by the end of this 30 -day period,
the preliminary FIS and FIRM will be finalized and the effective date will be
established at that time.
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Should you have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to
contact the Chief, Natural and Technological Hazards Division of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency in Denton, Texas,. at (817) 898 -9127 or Matthew B.
Miller of our Headquarters staff in Washington, D.C., at (202) 646 -3461.
Sincerely,
t . Matticks Risk Studies Division
Federal Insurance Administration
cc: /Mr. Russell R. Doyle, P.E.