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"Area of Special Flood Hazard" is the land in the floodplain within a community subject to a one percent or <br />greater chance of flooding in any given year. <br /> <br />"Base Flood" means the flood having a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. <br /> <br />"Basement" means any area of the structure having its floor subgrade (below ground level) on all sides. <br /> <br />"Building" see "structure." f <br /> <br />"Chief Executive Officery or "Chief Elected Official" means the official of the community who is charged <br />with the authority to implement and administer laws, ordinances, and regulations for that community. <br /> <br />"Community" means any State or area or political subdivision thereof, which has authority to adopt and <br />enforce floodplain management regulations for the areas within its jurisdiction. <br /> <br />"Development" means any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not <br />limited to buildings or other structures, levees, levee systems, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, <br />excavation or drilling operations, or storage of equipment or materials. <br /> <br />"Elevated Building" means for insurance purposes, a non-basement building which has its lowest elevated <br />floor raised above ground level by foundation walls, shear walls, posts, piers, pilings, or columns. <br /> <br />"Eligible Community" or "Participating Community" means a community for which the Administrator <br />has authorized the sale of flood insurance under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). <br /> <br />"Existing Construction" means for the purposes of determining rates, structures for which the "start of <br />construction" commenced before the effective date of the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) or before <br />January 1, 1975, for FIRMs effective before that date. "Existing construction" may also be referred to as <br />"existing structures." <br /> <br />"Existing Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision" means a manufactured home park or subdivision for <br />which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed <br />(including, at a minimum, the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading <br />or the pouring of concrete pads) is completed before the effective date of the floodplain management <br />regulations adopted by a community. <br /> <br />"Expansion to an Existing Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision" means the preparation of additional <br />sites by the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed <br />(including the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of <br />concrete pads). <br /> <br />"Flood" or "Flooding" means a general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of <br />normally dry land areas from (1) the overflow of inland and/or (2) the unusual and rapid accumulation or <br />runoff of surface waters from any source. <br /> <br />"Flood Boundary and Floodway Map (FBFM)" means an official map of a community on which the <br />Administrator has delineated both special flood hazard areas and the designated regulatory floodway. <br /> <br />"Flood Elevation Determination" means a determination by the Federal Insurance Administrator of the <br />water surface elevations of the base flood, that is, the flood level that has a one percent or greater chance of <br />occurrence in any given year. <br /> <br />11 <br /> <br /> <br />