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In response to the 1987 report and its recommendations, the North Beach Property Owners Association was formed to lobby against the proposal. In addition the board of county commissioners :passed resolution 87-49 and sent a letter to the Department of Interior which not only objected to the expansion of the P-10 unit, but recommended that the P-10 unit be deleted entirely from the coastal barrier resources system. As a result of the 1987 report by the Department of Interior on the Coastal Barrier Resources System, Congress passed the Coastal Barrier Improvement Act of 1990 (CBIA). Signed into law on November 16, 1990, the CBIA substantially expands the overall-CBRS. Not only did the CBIA fail to expand the P-10 unit of the CBRS as originally recommended by the Department of Interior in its 1987 report; the CBIA eliminated the Ambersand Beach area from the P-10 unit. Attachment 1 depicts the P-10 unit as established by the CBIA and identifies the area previously in P-10 but now excluded with passage of the CBIA. In June of 1991, the planning staff received copies of the maps depicting the revised boundaries of the P-10 and P -10A units of the CBRS as adopted by the CBIA of 1990. Along with those maps, staff received notice that congress delegated to the Department of Interior the authority to.make technical revisions to these maps. This authority, however, only extends to November 16, 1992. Local governments have until December 1, 1991 to submit proposed CBRS minor technical revisions to the Department of Interior. According to the Department, minor technical revisions to the CBRS maps "are not intended to result in major deletions or additions to system units or portions thereof." In reviewing the maps to determine if any minor technical revisions to the.P-10 unit were warranted, staff was contacted by Mr. Robert Bruce. Mr. Bruce, a property owner in the existing P-10 unit, submitted a request to the board of county commissioners that the board petition the Department of Interior to make a minor technical revision to the map by moving the boundary of the P-10 unit of the CBRS south approximately 750 to 800 feet. It is Mr. Bruce's position, as referenced in his recent letter to the board (Attachment #2), that the area requested for removal does not comply with CBRS criteria for inclusion. This change would remove Mr. Bruce's residence from the CBRS and allow him to obtain flood i insurance. ALTERNATIVES & ANALYSIS: Staff has reviewed the map changes which have occurred to the P-10 unit as a result of the CBIA of 1990. It appears .that the correspondence by the county and the North Beach Property Owners Association in 1987 was successful irr not only preventing the expansion of the P-10 unit of the CBRS, but also in having the area of the P-10 unit reduced to exclude the Ambersand Beach subdivision. As revised, the P-10 unit now excludes almost all developed areas on the north barrier island. At approximately 456 acres of upland, most of P-10 is undeveloped land with substantial development constraints. Even with the changes made to the P-10 unit, however, the existing designated area of P-10 adversely affects Mr. Bruce's property. Located approximately 600 feet south of the northern boundary of the P-10 unit, Mr. Bruce's residence is ineligible for flood insurance protection. 29 OCT 22 191 r �.