CITY OF OMAHA

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT

FINAL PUBLIC NOTICE

The City of Omaha has applied for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) funding through Nebraska Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) as a sub- recipient.

Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), federal actions must be reviewed and evaluated for feasible alternatives and for social, economic, historic, environmental, legal, and safety considerations. Under Executive Order (EO) 11988 and EO 11990, FEMA is required to consider alternatives, and to provide a public notice of any proposed actions in or affecting floodplains or wetlands. EO 12898 also requires FEMA to provide the opportunity for public participation in the planning process and to consider potential impacts to minority and low-income populations. This notice may also fulfill requirements under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA).

Funding for the proposed project will be conditional upon compliance with all applicable federal, tribal, state, and local laws, regulations, floodplain standards, permit requirements and conditions.

Sub-Applicant: City of Omaha

Project Title: Flood Mitigation at Papillion Creek Water Resource Recovery Facility (FEMA DR-4420-26)

Location of Proposed Work:

Facility                          Address                  Latitude       Longitude          Date of Construction

Papillion Creek                                                                                        Facility built circa

Water Resource      15705 Harlan Lewis         41.08572     -95.86635           1960’s/1970’s (Per      

Facility                   Road, Bellevue, NE                                                   USGS Historic

                                                                                                           Topographic Maps

Special Flood Hazard Area Zone:

All work is located in an AH Floodzone. Confirmation of location in a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) was determined by the Sarpy County Flood Insurance Rate Map, Panel Number: 31153C0230G, dated 12/02/2005. The proposed work conforms to all applicable State of Nebraska and local floodplain regulations. There is a potential for the facility to be impacted by future flooding events due to its location within the AH floodzone. The proposed work is located near wetlands per the United States Fish and Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory, however, the project has little potential to impact or affect wetland values.

Proposed Work and Purpose:

The Papillion Creek Water Resources and Recovery Facility was inundated with floodwaters from the nearby confluence of the Missouri and Platte Rivers and damaged capacitor banks, switchgear, switchboards, generators and transformers. The Sub-Applicant is proposing to replace and elevate the equipment by placing the equipment on top of concrete pads to prevent future damage.

Project Alternatives:

Alternative #1 (No action): Would implement flood protection measures on specific equipment. While this will allow plant managers to improve particularly vulnerable and/or critical pieces of equipment for flood protection measures, it will not uniformly apply 450-year protection to all the PCWRRF electrical equipment. Public safety would be lowered, and costs would continue to be incurred in flood events. A “no-action alternative” would leave the PCWRRF highly vulnerable to repeated damages and service disruption from overtopped levees. Without flood protection measures at a minimum, the plant’s ability to discharge treated effluent into the river when at high flood stages is at risk, potentially hydraulically forcing partially treated water to be discharged within the site. Environmental and public safety risks also remain.

Comment Period:

Comments are solicited from the public; local, state or federal agencies, and other interested parties in order to consider and evaluate the impacts of the proposed project. The comments should be made in writing and addressed to the following email: kate.stojsavljevic@fema.dhs.gov. Please send comments with the subject line [DR-4420-NE-HMA26 11988 COMMENT].

All comments are due by no later than 15 days of the posted date of this notice.

1/21, 1/22, 1/25, 1/26, 1/27, 1/28, 1/29, 2/1, 2/2, 2/3, 2/4, 2/5, 2/8, 2/9, 2/10

–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

AGENDA

CITY OF OMAHA AIR CONDITIONING/AIR DISTRIBUTION BOARD

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2021

PUBLIC MEETING – 1:30 PM

3RD FLOOR –

JESSE LOWE CONFERENCE ROOM

OMAHA/DOUGLAS CIVIC CENTER 

 1819 FARNAM STREET

•   Approval of Meeting Minutes

•   Report from Chief Mechanical Inspector

•   Request to Reciprocate Licenses

•   Request to Issue Temporary Licenses

•   Applications to Test

•   Approval of Continuing Education

•   Approval of Apprentice Applications

NOTE: All requests for sign language interpreters (signers) will require a minimum of 48 hours advance notice.  If necessary, contact the Board Secretary at (402) 444-5150 ext. 2062.

The Air Conditioning/Air Distribution Board reserves the right to amend the above agenda.  The Air Conditioning/Air Distribution Board agenda and other information regarding the Air Conditioning/Air Distribution Board and Planning Department are available on the Internet at https://planning.cityofomaha.org/boards/air-conditioning-air-distributio.... Agendas available on the Internet are subject to change and are for convenience purposes only.  A copy of the official agenda, kept continually current, shall be available for public inspection at the office of the Omaha Planning Department, 1819 Farnam Street, Suite 1110, Omaha, Nebraska, during normal business hours.

Prior to the hearing, the applicant may schedule a time to review the City’s case file during normal business hours by contacting the Board Secretary at 402-444-5150 ext. 2062.  If an alternative (audio version) to this agenda is necessary, please notify the Board Secretary at 402-444-5150 ext. 2062, 72 hours in advance.

Thomas E. Phipps, Administrator

City of Omaha

Air Conditioning/Air Distribution Board

1/26

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

CITY OF OMAHA

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICES

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Omaha, Nebraska, will hold public hearings on February 9, 2021, beginning at 2:00 PM in Legislative Chambers, 1819 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68183, for the purpose of hearing testimony for:

Res. that, the Preliminary Plat entitled Horbach’s 2nd Addition Replat 5, a minor plat inside city limits, located at 1804 Paul Street, along with the conditions, is hereby accepted; and, the preparation of the final plat of this subdivision is hereby authorized.

Res. that, the Final Plat transmitted herewith entitled Horbach’s 2nd Addition Replat 5, a minor plat inside city limits, located at 1804 Paul Street, is hereby approved, and concurrently portions of the existing plat entitled Horbach’s 2nd Addition, and described on said replat, are hereby vacated.

An ordinance to rezone the property located northeast of Cedar Street and South 55th Avenue from R4(35) Single-Family Residential District (High Density) and R6-Low-Density Multiple-Family Residential District to R5-Urban Family Residential District.

An ordinance to rezone the property located northeast of Cedar Street and South 55th Avenue from R4(35) Single-Family Residential District (High Density) and R6-Low-Density Multiple-Family Residential District to R6-Low-Density Multiple-Family Residential District.

An ordinance to rezone property located at 4117 Charles Street from GI-General Industrial District to R5-Urban Family Residential District.

An ordinance to rezone property located southeast of 72nd and Farnam Streets from GC-General Commercial District to CC-Community Commercial District (property is located within an ACI-2 Area of Civic Importance Overlay District).

Anyone interested in these matters should be in attendance.

  Elizabeth Butler, CMC

City Clerk

City of Omaha

1/26

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––