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Federal Emergency Management Agency Washington, D.C. 20472 CERTIFIED MAIL RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED June 16, 2015 The Honorable Sarah Strommen Mayor, City of Ramsey Municipal Center 7550 Sunwood Drive Northwest Ramsey, Minnesota 55303 Dear Mayor Strommen: IN REPLY REFER TO: 19P Community: Community No.: Map Panels Affected: City of Ramsey, Anoka County, Minnesota 270681 See FIRM Index This is to formally notify you of the final flood hazard determination for the City of Ramsey, Anoka County, Minnesota, in compliance with Title 44, Chapter I, Part 67, Section 67.11, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). This section requires that notice of final flood hazards shall be sent to the Chief Executive Officer of the community, all individual appellants, and the State Coordinating Agency, and shall be published in the Federal Register. On November 1, 1979, the Depai tment of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued a Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) that identified the Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHAs), the areas subject to inundation by the base (1-percent-annual-chance) flood, in your community. Recently, FEMA completed a re-evaluation of flood hazards in your community. On September 30, 2011, FEMA provided you with Preliminary copies of the FIRM and Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report that identify existing flood hazards in your community, including Base Flood Elevations (BFEs). The proposed flood hazard determinations (FHDs) for your community were published in the Anoka County Union on February 14, 2014 and February 21, 2014, and in the Federal Register, at Part 67, Volume 78, Page 78998, on December 27, 2013. The statutory 90-day appeal period, which was initiated on the second newspaper publication date cited above, has ended. FEMA did not receive any appeals of the proposed FHDs during that time. Accordingly, the FHDs for your community are considered final. The final notice for FHDs will be published in the Federal Register as soon as possible. The FIRM for your community will become effective on December 16, 2015. Before the effective date, FEMA will send you final printed copies of the FIRM and FIS report. Because the FIS report establishing the FHDs for your community has been completed, certain additional requirements must be met under Section 1361 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended, within 6 months from the date of this letter. Prior to December 16, 2015, your community is required, as a condition of continued eligibility in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), to adopt or show evidence of adoption of floodplain management regulations that meet the standards of Paragraph 60.3(d) of the enclosed NFIP regulations (44 CFR 59, etc.) by the effective date of the FIRM. These standards are the minimum requirements and do not supersede any State or local requirements of a more stringent nature.