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the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including the installation <br />of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of <br />concrete pads). <br />FLOOD OR FLOODIIVG - 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 from <br />any source. <br />FLOOD ELEVATION STUDY - means an examination, evaluation and determination of <br />flood hazards and, if appropriate, corresponding water surface elevations, or an <br />examination, evaluation and determination of mudslide (i.e., mudflow) and/or flood- <br />related erosion hazards. <br />FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAP (FIRM) - means an official map of a community, on <br />which the Federal Emergency Management Agency has delineated both the special <br />flood hazard areas and the risk premium zones applicable to the community. <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 <br />limited to emergency preparedness plans, flood control works and floodplain <br />management regulations. <br />FLOODPLAIIV MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS - means zoning ordinances, subdivision <br />regulations, building codes, health regulations, special purpose ordinances (such as a <br />floodplain ordinance, grading ordinance and erosion control ordinance) and other <br />applications of police power. The term describes such state or local regulations, in any <br />combination thereof, which provide standards for the purpose of flood damage <br />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 />constructed specifically to modify flooding in order to reduce the extent of the area <br />within a community subject to a"special flood hazard" and the extent of the depths of <br />associated flooding. Such a system typically includes hurricane tidal barriers, dams, <br />reservoirs, levees or dikes. These specialized flood modifying works are those <br />constructed in conformance with sound engineering standards. <br />5 <br />