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H,ws Count \ - - llt!"dl1nI~ J.Ji I Notes: 4 Panels dated 199B 5 Detail Stud Number 01 Panels 40 Panels Remarks Information from FHBM dated 03/21nB B 32 FEMA and its predecessor agency, the Federal Insurance Administration (FIA), published Flood Insurance Studies and Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) for the City of San Marcos (latest community in Hays County) and Hays County dated: I August 28, ] 971 Julyl,]974 November 5, ] 976 November] 9, 1980 September 1, ]983 September 5, ] 990 June] 6, ] 993 February] 8, ] 998 Initial FISIFIRM City of San Marcos Revised FISIFIRM City of San Marcos Revised FIS/FIRM City of San Marcos Revised FISIFIRM City of San Marcos Revised FIS/FIRM City of San Marcos Revised FISIFIRM City of San Marcos Hays County ( countywide) FIS/FIRM Revised FISIFIRM Hays County (countywide) Since the ]970's, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its' predecessor agency, Federal Insurance Administration (FIA), have published Flood Hazard Boundary Maps, conducted Flood Insurance Studies and published Flood Insurance Rate Maps for individual communities throughout the nation. In the 1990' s, FEMA began publishing countywide FIRM's, which has become the national mapping standard. The initial countywide mapping effort for Hays County was the Hays County and Incorporated Areas Flood Insurance Study and FIRM's that was published June] 6, ] 993 and revised February 18, ]998. In 2002, FEMA launched a nationwide Map Modernization Initiative to restudy and replace out-of-date FIRM's with "state-of-the-art" Digital FIRM's, referenced as DFIRM's. Currently there are very few DFIRM's published in Texas and none in Hays County. The Hays County FIRM's are considered to be out-of-date based on FEMA national standards. The latest Hays County FIRM was published in ] 998, but the technical data such as hydrology, hydraulics, surveying and mapping, is a combination of studies and mapping dating back to the original Hays County and individual community Flood Hazard Boundary Maps published in ] 978. FEMA's policy is to publish a new FIRM Index Map whenever a single FIRM panel is revised and reprinted. Therefore the true age of a community or countywide FIRM cannot be detennined by the publication date of the FIRM Index Map. In essence, Hays County has not been mapped to the current FEMA mapping standard. Out-of-date flood insurance studies and FIRM's place a burden on community floodplain administrators that are attempting to regulate new development to minimize future flood losses. I Hays County, Texas Mitigation Plan 44