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Federal Emergency Management Agency
CERTIFIED MAIL
RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
The Honorable Candy Sheehan
Mayor, City of Coppell
255 Parkway Boulevard
Coppell, TX 75019
Dear Mayor Sheehan:
Washington, D.C. 20472
MAY 2 4 2001
We appreciate and commend you for the efforts put forth in implementing your community's
floodplain management measures. We would like to take this opportunity to remind you that:
• A Flood Insurance Study (FIS) and Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) establishing
Base Flood Elevations has been completed for your community;
• The FIS and FIRM will become effective on August 23, 2001, and
• By that date, our Regional Office staff will have to approve the legally enforceable
floodplain management measures your community adopts in accordance with
44 CFR 60.3 (d).
The FIS report and FIRM for your community have been prepared in our countywide format,
whereby the flood hazard information for all jurisdictions within Dallas County has been
combined into one FIS report and FIRM. If the FIRM for your community was computer
generated, once the FIRM is published in final format, the digital files containing the flood
hazard data for the entire county can be provided to your community for use in a computer
mapping system. These files can be used in conjunction with other thematic data for floodplain z-I 1311
management purposes, insurance purchase and rating requirements, and many other planning
applications. Paper copies of the FIRM panels may be obtained by calling our Map Service
Center, toll free, at 1-800-358-9616. Copies of the digital files may be obtained by calling our I Soo
Map Assistance Center, toll free, at 1- 877 -FEMA MAP (1- 877 - 336 - 2627). In addition, your -Ss a
community may be eligible for additional credits under the Community Rating System if you q 6 I b
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If you should encounter difficulties in enacting the measures, I recommend that you call the
Director, Mitigation Division of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in
Denton, Texas, at (817) 898 -5127. Our Regional Office staff will be happy to provide technical
assistance and guidance in the development of floodplain management measures. The adoption
of compliant floodplain management measures will provide protection for your community and
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will ensure participation in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The address of the
Regional Office is FEMA, Mitigation Division, Federal Regional Center, Room 206, 800 North
Loop 288, Denton, Texas 76201 -3698.
I realize your community may have already contacted our Regional Office staff and may now be
in the final adoption process, or may have recently adopted the appropriate measures. If you
have not done so, please consider this a formal reminder that you have 3 months left in which to
adopt the appropriate floodplain management measures and have them approved by our Regional
Office staff. Your community's adopted measures will be reviewed upon receipt, and our
Regional Office will notify you when your measures are approved.
I encourage you to submit your community's floodplain management measures and have them
approved by our regional staff by the FIRM effective date to avoid suspension from the NFIP.
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Margaret E. Lawless
Acting Executive Associate Director
for Mitigation
cc: Mr. Kenneth Griffin
Floodplain Administrator
NFIP State Coordinator
FEMA Region VI Office