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the FIRM or before January l, 1975, for FIRMs effective before that date. <br />`Existing construction' may also be referred to as `existing structures.' <br />Existing manufactured home park or subdivision means a manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing <br />the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including, at a <br />minimum, the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either <br />final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) is completed before the <br />effective date of the floodplain management regulations adopted by a city. <br />Expansion to an existing manufactured home park or subdivision means the preparation of additional sites by the construction of facilities for servicing <br />the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including the <br />installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading <br />or the pouring of concrete pads). <br />Flood or flooding means a general and temporary condition of partial or <br />complete inundation of normally dry land areas from: <br />(1) the overflow of inland or tidal waters. <br />(2) the unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters <br />from any source. <br />Flood elevation study means an examination, evaluation, and determination <br />of flood hazards and, if appropriate, corresponding water surface elevations, or an examination, evaluation, and determmation of mudslide (i.e., mudflow) <br />and/or flood-related erosion hazards. <br />Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) means an official map of a city on which <br />the Federal Emergency Management Agency has delineated botli the special <br />flood hazard areas and the risk premium zones applicable to the city. <br />Flood insurance study (FIS). See Flood elevation study. <br />Floodplain or flood prone area means any land area susceptible to being <br />inundated by water from any source (see definition of flooding). <br />Floodplain management means the operation of an overall program of <br />corrective and preventive measures for reducing flood damage, including, but not limited to, emergency preparedness plans, flood control works, and <br />floodplain management regulations. <br />Floodplain management regulations means zoning ordinances, subdivision <br />regulations, building codes, health regulations, special purpose ordinances <br />(such as a floodplam ordinance, grading ordinance, and erosion control <br />ordinance) and other applications of police power. The term describes such state or local regulations, in any combination thereof, which provide <br />standards for the purpose of flood damage prevention and reduction. <br />Flood protection system means those physical structural works for which <br />funds have been authorized, appropriated, and expended and which have been <br />Page 4 of 17 <br />