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  <idinfo>
    <citation>
      <citeinfo>
        <origin>AMEC Environment &amp; Infrastructure, Inc.</origin>
        <pubdate>03282016</pubdate>
        <title>FLOODPLAIN, KANAWHA COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA USA</title>
        <geoform>FEMA-DFIRM-Floodplain</geoform>
        <pubinfo>
          <pubplace>Washington, DC</pubplace>
          <publish>Federal Emergency Management Agency/msc</publish>
        </pubinfo>
        <onlink>http://hazards.fema.gov</onlink>
        <lworkcit>
          <citeinfo>
            <origin>Federal Emergency Management Agency</origin>
            <pubdate>03282016</pubdate>
            <title>FEMA</title>
          </citeinfo>
        </lworkcit>
      </citeinfo>
    </citation>
    <descript>
      <abstract>The Floodplain Mapping/Redelineation study deliverables depict and quantify the flood risks for the study area. The primary risk classifications used are the 1-percent-annual-chance flood event, the 0.2-percent-annual- chance flood event, and areas of minimal flood risk. The Floodplain Mapping/Redelineation flood risk boundaries are derived from the engineering information Flood Insurance Studies (FISs), previously published Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), flood hazard analyses performed in support of the FISs and FIRMs, and new mapping data, where available. The FISs and FIRMs are published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).</abstract>
      <purpose>The objective of the Floodplain Mapping/Redelineation data submission is to archive the flood boundary and redelineation data for a study in a database such that it can be revised and used with minimum effort in future flood insurance studies or map revisions. This digital data is produced for the purposes of updating/creating a DFIRM database.</purpose>
    </descript>
    <timeperd>
      <timeinfo>
        <sngdate>
          <caldate>03282016</caldate>
        </sngdate>
      </timeinfo>
      <current>FIRM and FIS Effective Date</current>
    </timeperd>
    <status>
      <progress>Complete</progress>
      <update>Unknown</update>
    </status>
    <spdom>
      <bounding>
        <westbc>-81.970823</westbc>
        <eastbc>-81.083318</eastbc>
        <northbc>38.634022</northbc>
        <southbc>37.943566</southbc>
      </bounding>
    </spdom>
    <keywords>
      <theme>
        <themekt>ISO 19115 Topic Category</themekt>
        <themekey>hydrology</themekey>
        <themekey>environment</themekey>
        <themekey>inlandWaters</themekey>
      </theme>
      <theme>
        <themekt>FEMA NFIP Topic Category</themekt>
        <themekey>Floodplain Mapping</themekey>
        <themekey>Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map</themekey>
        <themekey>DFIRM</themekey>
        <themekey>FIRM</themekey>
        <themekey>FEMA Flood Hazard Zone</themekey>
        <themekey>DFIRM Database</themekey>
        <themekey>Special Flood Hazard Area</themekey>
        <themekey>Riverine Flooding</themekey>
        <themekey>NFIP</themekey>
        <themekey>Base Flood Elevation</themekey>
        <themekey>SFHA</themekey>
        <themekey>Flood Insurance Rate Map</themekey>
        <themekey>Floodway</themekey>
      </theme>
      <place>
        <placekt>None</placekt>
        <placekey>REGION 3</placekey>
        <placekey>STATE WV</placekey>
        <placekey>COUNTY KANAWHA</placekey>
        <placekey></placekey>
        <placekey>COMMUNITY KANAWHA COUNTY (and Incorporated Areas)</placekey>
        <placekey></placekey>
      </place>
    </keywords>
    <accconst>None</accconst>
    <useconst>Acknowledgement of FEMA would be appreciated in products derived from these data. This digital data is produced for the purposes of updating/creating a DFIRM database.</useconst>
  </idinfo>
  <dataqual>
    <logic>When FEMA revises an FIS, adjacent studies are checked to ensure agreement between flood elevations at the boundaries. Likewise flood elevations at the confluence of streams studied independently are checked to ensure agreement at the confluence. The FIRM and the FIS are developed together and care is taken to ensure that the elevations and other features shown on the flood profiles in the FIS agree with the information shown on the FIRM. However, the elevations as shown on the FIRM are rounded whole-foot elevations. They must be shown so that a profile recreated from the elevations on the FIRM will match the FIS profiles within one half of one foot.</logic>
    <complete>Data contained in the Floodplain Mapping and Redelineation files reflect the content of the source materials. Features may have been eliminated or generalized on the source graphic, due to scale and legibility constraints. With new mapping, FEMA plans to maintain full detail in the spatial data it produces. However, older information is often transferred from existing maps where some generalization has taken place. Flood risk data are developed for communities participating in the NFIP for use in insurance rating and for floodplain management. Flood hazard areas are determined using statistical analyses of records of river flow, storm tides, and rainfall; information obtained through consultation with the communities; floodplain topographic surveys; and hydrological and hydraulic analysis. Both detailed and approximate analyses are employed. Generally, detailed analyses are used to generate flood risk data only for developed or developing areas of communities. For areas where little or no development is expected to occur, FEMA uses approximate analyses to generate flood risk data. Typically, only drainage areas that are greater than one square mile are studied.</complete>
    <lineage>
      <srcinfo>
        <srccite>
          <citeinfo>
            <origin>AMEC Environment &amp; Infrastructure, Inc.</origin>
            <pubdate>03252013</pubdate>
            <title>New Countywide Flood Hazard Data</title>
            <othercit>Approximate SFHAs were produced by AMEC to reflect updated topographic data.</othercit>
          </citeinfo>
        </srccite>
        <scrcscale>6000</scrcscale>
        <typesrc>DVD-ROM</typesrc>
        <srctime>
          <timeinfo>
            <sngdate>
              <caldate>03282016</caldate>
            </sngdate>
          </timeinfo>
          <srccurr>publication date</srccurr>
        </srctime>
        <srccitea>STUDY1</srccitea>
        <srccontr>Spatial and attribute information for new countywide FIRM panels. Flood Elevations were converted from NGVD29 found in the effective FIS (FIS1) to NAVD88.</srccontr>
      </srcinfo>
      <procstep>
        <procdesc>Floodplain Mapping and Redelineation datasets are compiled in conjunction with the hardcopy FIRM and the final FIS report. The specifics of the hydrologic and hydraulic analyses performed are detailed in the FIS report. The results of these studies are submitted in digital format to FEMA. These data and unrevised data from effective FIRMs are compiled onto the base map used for DFIRM publication and checked for accuracy and compliance with FEMA standards.</procdesc>
        <procdate>03282016</procdate>
      </procstep>
    </lineage>
  </dataqual>
  <spref>
    <horizsys>
      <planar>
        <gridsys>
          <gridsysn>State Plane Coordinate System 1983</gridsysn>
          <spcs>
            <spcszone>4702</spcszone>
            <lambertc>
              <stdparll>37.483333</stdparll>
              <stdparll>38.883333</stdparll>
              <longcm>-81</longcm>
              <latprjo>37</latprjo>
              <feast>1968500.000000</feast>
              <fnorth>0.000000</fnorth>
            </lambertc>
          </spcs>
        </gridsys>
        <planci>
          <plance>coordinate pair</plance>
          <coordrep>
            <absres>0.000216</absres>
            <ordres>0.000216</ordres>
          </coordrep>
          <plandu>survey feet</plandu>
        </planci>
      </planar>
      <geodetic>
        <horizdn>North American Datum of 1983</horizdn>
        <ellips>Geodetic Reference System 80</ellips>
        <semiaxis>6378137.0</semiaxis>
        <denflat>298.257222</denflat>
      </geodetic>
    </horizsys>
    <vertdef>
      <altsys>
        <altdatum>North American Vertical Datum of 1988</altdatum>
        <altres>0.0000001</altres>
        <altunits>feet</altunits>
        <altenc>Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates</altenc>
      </altsys>
    </vertdef>
  </spref>
  <eainfo>
    <detailed>
      <enttyp>
        <enttypl>S_Fld_Haz_Ar</enttypl>
        <enttypd>Location and attributes for flood insurance risk zones</enttypd>
        <enttypds>FEMA Guidelines and Specifications for Flood Hazard Mapping Partners, Appendix L: Guidance for Preparing Draft Digital Data and DFIRM Databases (available at http://www.fema.gov/fhm/dl_cgs.shtm)</enttypds>
      </enttyp>
    </detailed>
    <overview>
      <eaover>The Floodplain Mapping and Redelineation datasets contain both spatial and attribute information. These data together represent the current flood risk for the subject area as identified by FEMA. The attribute tables may include SFHA locations, flood zone designations, BFEs, political entities, cross-section locations, FIRM panel information, and other data related to the NFIP.</eaover>
      <eadetcit>Appendix L of FEMA Guidelines and Specifications for FEMA Flood Hazard Mapping Partners contains a detailed description of each attribute code and a reference to other relevant information.</eadetcit>
    </overview>
  </eainfo>
  <distinfo>
    <distrib>
      <cntinfo>
        <cntorgp>
          <cntorg>Federal Emergency Management Agency</cntorg>
        </cntorgp>
        <cntaddr>
          <addrtype>mailing</addrtype>
          <address>500 C Street, S.W.</address>
          <city>Washington</city>
          <state>District of Columbia</state>
          <postal>20472</postal>
          <country>USA</country>
        </cntaddr>
        <cntvoice>1-877-336-2627</cntvoice>
        <cntemail>miphelp@riskmapcds.com</cntemail>
      </cntinfo>
    </distrib>
    <distliab>No warranty expressed or implied is made by FEMA regarding the utility of the data on any other system nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty.</distliab>
    <stdorder>
      <digform>
        <digtinfo>
          <formname>ESRI Shapefile</formname>
        </digtinfo>
        <digtopt>
          <onlinopt>
            <computer>
              <networka>
                <networkr>http://hazards.fema.gov</networkr>
              </networka>
            </computer>
          </onlinopt>
        </digtopt>
      </digform>
      <fees>Contact Distributor</fees>
    </stdorder>
  </distinfo>
  <metainfo>
    <metd>03282016</metd>
    <metc>
      <cntinfo>
        <cntperp>
          <cntper>Tucker Clevenger</cntper>
          <cntorg>AMEC Environment &amp; Infrastructure, Inc.</cntorg>
        </cntperp>
        <cntaddr>
          <addrtype>mailing</addrtype>
          <address>14424 Albemarle Point Place Suite 115</address>
          <city>Chantilly</city>
          <state>Virginia</state>
          <postal>20151</postal>
          <country>USA</country>
        </cntaddr>
        <cntvoice>703-488-3700</cntvoice>
        <cntemail>tucker.clevenger@amec.com</cntemail>
      </cntinfo>
    </metc>
    <metstdn>FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata</metstdn>
    <metstdv>FGDC-STD-001-1998</metstdv>
    <metextns>
      <onlink>http://hazards.fema.gov</onlink>
      <onlink>http://www.epsg.org</onlink>
      <metprof>FEMA NFIP Metadata Content and Format Standard</metprof>
    </metextns>
  </metainfo>
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