FIRM-970525Federal Emergency Management Agency
Mr. KEN GRIFFIN
Floodplain Administrator
City of Coppell
PO Box 478
Coppell, TX 75019
Dear Mr. GRIFFIN:
Washington, D.C. 20472
MAR 251997
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When your community entered the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), local officials agreed to
comply with Section 59.22 of the NFIP regulations and submit a Biennial Report to the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), describing the progress made on the implementation of
floodplain management measures. Additio> ally, Section 65.3 of the NFIP regulations describes your
community's requirement to submit new technical data reflecting physical changes affecting flooding
conditions. As a supplement to your Biennial Report, FEMA is gathering information to assess the
floodplain mapping needs in your community in accordance with Section 575 of the National Flood
Insurance Reform Act of 1994 (NFIRA). Section 575 of NFIRA mandates that:
Once during each 5 years, the Director shall assess the need to revise and update all
floodplain areas and flood risk zones identified, delineated, or established under this
section [1360 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968], based on an analysis of all
natural hazards affecting flood risks.
The purpose of Section 575 is to ensure that every community's map needs are reviewed at least once
every 5 years. This is an opportunity for you to submit any additional data regarding the map needs
for your community.
If you have any non - engineering needs (e.g., changes to Elevation Reference Marks, street locations or
names, corporate limits, or map format) or engineering needs (e.g., new or revised hydrologic and
hydraulic data, changes to base flood elevations or floodplain or floodway boundary delineations),
please bring them to our attention within 30 days of the date of this letter. Please inform us if you do
not have any mapping needs at this time. To ensure the efficiency and accuracy of this review,
mapping needs should be as specific as possible. Upon receiving any information you might provide,
we may contact you for clarification.
Once all needs for your community are identified, they will be input into the Map Needs Update,
Support System, a database that FEMA has developed to inventory the mapping needs for communities
nationwide. We will use the data to assess and rank the mapping needs of your community relative to
other communities in the country, and will endeavor to address your needs based on the respective
ranking of your needs and the availability of funding.
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Federal Emergency Management Agency
Washington, D.C. 20472
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Mr. KEN GRIFFIN
Floodplain Administrator
City of Coppell
PO Box 478
Coppell, TX 75019
Dear Mr. GRIFFIN:
When your community entered the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), local officials agreed to
comply with Section 59.22 of the NFIP regulations and submit a Biennial Report to the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), describing the progress made on the implementation of
floodplain management measures. Additionally, Section 65.3 of the NFIP regulations describes your
community's requirement to submit new technical data reflecting physical changes affecting flooding
conditions. As a supplement to your Biennial Report, FEMA is gathering information to assess the
floodplain mapping needs in your community in accordance with Section 575 of the National Flood
Insurance Reform Act of 1994 ( NFIRA). Section 575 of NFIRA mandates that:
Once during each 5 years, the Director shall assess the need to revise and update all
floodplain areas and flood risk zones identified, delineated, or established under this
section [1360 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968], based on an analysis of all
natural hazards affecting flood risks.
The purpose of Section 575 is to ensure that every community's map needs are reviewed at least once
every 5 years. This is an opportunity for you to submit any additional data regarding the map needs
for your community.
If you have any non - engineering needs (e.g., changes to Elevation Reference Marks, street locations or
names, corporate limits, or map format) or engineering needs (e.g., new or revised hydrologic and
hydraulic data, changes to base flood elevations or floodplain or floodway boundary delineations),
please bring them to our attention within 30 days of the date of this letter. Please inform us if you do
not have any mapping needs at this time. To ensure the efficiency and accuracy of this review,
mapping needs should be as specific as possible. Upon receiving any information you might provide,
we may contact you for clarification.
Once all needs for your community are identified, they will be input into the Map Needs Update.
Support System, a database that FEMA has developed to inventory the mapping needs for communities
nationwide. We will use the data to assess and rank the mapping needs of your community relative to
other communities in the country, and will endeavor to address your needs based on the respective
ranking of your needs and the availability of funding.
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If you have any mapping information, please send that information to FEMA in the care of our
Technical Evaluation Contractor, who will be assisting the FEMA Regional Office with this
assessment. Please include with that information, the name and telephone number of a contact person
for your community. You may send your comments to:
Ms. Marie Britt, P.E.
Michael Baker Jr., Inc.
3601 Eisenhower Avenue, Suite 600
Alexandria, VA 22304
Direct (703) 317 -6228
Fax (703) 960 -9125
E -mail: mbritt @mbakercorp.com
If you or your staff have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Workgroup Coordinator,
Mr. Vincent Brown, of our Mitigation Directorate in Washington, DC, either by telephone at
(202) 646 -2725 or by facsimile at (202) 646 -4596. Also, you may refer to FEMA's Homepage on the
Internet at http: / /Www.fema.gov, for more information on Section 575 of NFIRA.
Sincerely,
Michael K. Buckley, P.E., Director
Hazard Identification & Risk Assessment Division
Mitigation Directorate