[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 44, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 44CFR66.5]

[Page 356-357]
 
              TITLE 44--EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE
 
             CHAPTER I--FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
 
PART 66--CONSULTATION WITH LOCAL OFFICIALS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 66.5  Responsibilities for consultation and coordination.

    (a) Contact shall be made with appropriate officials of a community 
in which a proposed investigation is undertaken, and with the state 
coordinating agency.
    (b) Local dissemination of the intent and nature of the 
investigation shall be encouraged so that interested parties will have 
an opportunity to bring relevant data to the attention of the community 
and to the Administrator.
    (c) Submission of information from the community concerning the 
study shall be encouraged.
    (d) Appropriate officials of the community shall be fully informed 
of (1) The responsibilities placed on them by the Program, (2) the 
administrative procedures followed by the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, (3) the community's role in establishing elevations, and (4) the 
responsibilities of the community if it participates or continues to 
participate in the Program.
    (e) Before the commencement of an initial Flood Insurance Study, the 
CCO or other FEMA representative, together with a representative of the 
organization undertaking the study, shall meet with officials of the 
community. The state coordinating agency shall be notified of this 
meeting and may attend. At this meeting, the local

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officials shall be informed of (1) The date when the study will 
commence, (2) the nature and purpose of the study, (3) areas involved, 
(4) the manner in which the study shall be undertaken, (5) the general 
principles to be applied, and (6) the intended use of the data obtained. 
The community shall be informed in writing if any of the six preceding 
items are or will be changed after this initial meeting and during the 
course of the ongoing study.
    (f) The community shall be informed in writing of any intended 
modification to the community's final flood elevation determinations or 
the development of new elevations in additional areas of the community 
as a result of a new study or restudy. Such information to the community 
will include the data set forth in paragraph (e) of this section. At the 
discretion of the Chief of the Natural and Technological Hazards 
Division in each FEMA Regional Office, a meeting may be held to 
accomplish this requirement.

[47 FR 771, Jan. 7, 1982, as amended at 49 FR 4751, Feb. 8, 1984]