Agenda - Environmental Policy Board - 09/21/2015

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MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES CENTRAL OFFICE MNDNR July 9, 2015 The Honorable Sarah Strommen Mayor, City of Ramsey 7550 Sunwood Dr NW Ramsey, MN 55303 Dear Mayor Strommen, ANOKA COUNTY, MINNESOTA FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY You recently received a letter from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) dated June 16, 2015, about your floodplain regulations. This letter, known as the Letter of Final Determination (LFD), explains that the Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) for your community, as well as the Anoka County Flood Insurance Study, are now complete and will become effective on December 16, 2015 (which is 6 months from the date of the LFD). This letter is intended to explain the statement in the LFD that "your community is required... to adopt or show evidence of adoption of floodplain management regulations that meet the standards of Paragraph 60.3(d)....by the effective date of the FIRM." In other words, your community must amend your floodplain ordinance, or adopt a new ordinance by December 16 2015 in order to continue participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The DNR, as the State Coordinating Agency for the NFIP, will be assisting you in this effort. The DNR will advise your staff as to what type of floodplain ordinance your community should adopt. We will be contacting you within the next few weeks with a draft ordinance tailored to your community. I urge you to respond as soon as possible to initiate this process so as to prevent your community from being suspended from the National Flood Insurance Program should you not meet the 6 -month deadline. We strong* encourage your community to complete a draft ofa new or revised floodplain ordinance and forward it to my attention by September I6. 2015 (the midpoint of the 6 -month adoption perio ). This allows time for our review and approval, for your community to complete the adoption/publication process, and for an adopted/certified copy of the ordinance to be sent to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Chicago Regional Office by December 16, 2015. All communities will eventually receive one set of paper copies of the Anoka County Flood Insurance Study and the respective flood insurance rate map panels from FEMA. Many communities prefer to have the final study/maps available when they initiate the ordinance adoption/amendment process. We anticipate that electronic versions of the final maps will be available within the next month, and we will make them available on our ftp site: ftp://ftp.dnr.state.mn.us/pub/waters/floodplain/County data/Anoka/ These posted documents will include pdfs for viewing and printing, as well as shapefiles for GIS use. A PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER CONTAINING A mndnr.gov 500 LAFAYETTE ROAD • SAINT PAUL, MN 55155 re MINIMUM OF 10% POST - CONSUMER WASTE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER