To enable residents and/or property owners of the City of South Bend to apply for low cost federal flood insurance

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M (3) Take such other official action as may be reason- ably necessary to carry out the objectives of the program. Such actions will include, but not be limited to: (a) Assisting the Federal Insurance Administrator, at his request, in delineating the limits of the flood plains (s) having special flood hazards on available local maps of sufficient scale to identify the location of the building sites. (b) After flood insurance is made available, fur- nishing representatives of the National Flood Insurers Associations (also appropriate Federal agencies, upon request) and the Department of Natural Resources of the State of Indiana, information concerning new or substantially improved structures within the areas of special flood hazards. This information will include floor elevations (Mean Sea Level Datum, General Adjustment of 1929) and, if there is a base- ment, the distance between the first floor and the bottom of the lowest opening where water flowing on the ground may enter. (c) Cooperating with Federal, State, Local agencies or others who will undertake to study, survey, map and identify flood-prone areas as well as cooperating with contiguous areas or jurisdictions with respect to adjoining and adjacent flood plains in order to prevent aggravation of the flooding problems. (d) Providing the name of the individual and the office that will be responsible for furnishing the first floor elevation information. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Common Council hereby appoints the Board of Public Works and Safety with the respon- sibility, authority and means to implemen the commitments made herein. i Member of the Common Council 1st & 2nd READING 10-11-71 COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE TUBLIC HEARING 11-8-71 Continue Public Hearing 3rd READING NOT APPROVED REFERRED PASSED 11-8-71