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Federal, State, or other source using FEMA approved engineering methodologies. This elevation,
<br />when combined with the "Freeboard", establishes the "Regulatory Flood Protection Elevation".
<br />Basement means any area of the building having its floor subgrade (below ground level) on all
<br />sides.
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<br />Chemical Storage Facility means a building, portion of a building, or exterior area adjacent
<br />to a building used for the storage of any chemical or chemically reactive products.
<br />Development means any manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate, including,
<br />but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving,
<br />excavating, drilling operations, or storage of equipment or materials.
<br />Disposal means, as defined in NCGS 130A-290(a)(6), the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping,
<br />spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste into or on any land or water so that the solid waste
<br />or any constituent part of the solid waste may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or
<br />discharged into any waters, including groundwaters.
<br />Elevated building means anon-basement building:
<br />(1) Built, in the case of a building in Zones Al-A30, AE, A, A99, A0, AH, B, C, or X to have
<br />the top of the elevated floor above the ground by means of pilings, columns (posts and piers),
<br />shear walls parallel to the flow of water; and
<br />(2) Adequately anchored so as not to impair the structural integrity of the building during a
<br />flood up to the magnitude of the base flood. In the case of Zones A 1-A30, AE, A, A99, A0,
<br />AH, B, C, and X, "elevated building" also includes a building elevated by means of fill or
<br />solid foundations perimeter walls with openings sufficient to facilitate the unimpeded
<br />movement of flood waters.
<br />Encroachment means the advance or infringement of uses, fill, excavation, buildings, structures
<br />or development into a floodplain, which may impede or alter the flow capacity of a floodplain.
<br />Existing manufactured home park or manufactured home subdivision means a manufactured
<br />home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on
<br />which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including, at a minimum, the installation of
<br />utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete
<br />pads) was completed before the initial effective date of the floodplain management
<br />regulations adopted by this community.
<br />Flood or flooding means a general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation
<br />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 any source.
<br />Flood hazard boundary map (FHBM) means an official map of a community, issued by the
<br />Federal Emergency Management Agency, has delineated both the areas of special flood
<br />hazard and the risk premium zones applicable to the community.
<br />Flood Insurance means the insurance coverage provided under the National Flood Insurance
<br />Program.
<br />Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIR11~ means an official map of a community, issued by the Federal
<br />Emergency Management Agency, on which both the Special Flood Hazard Areas and the risk
<br />premium zones applicable to the community are delineated.
<br />Flood Insurance Study (FIS) means an examination, evaluation, and determination of flood
<br />hazards, corresponding water surface elevations (if appropriate), flood hazard risk zones, and
<br />other flood data in a community issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The
<br />Flood Insurance Study report includes Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMS) and Flood Boundary
<br />and Floodway Maps (FBFMs), if published.
<br />Floodplain means any land area susceptible to being inundated by water from any source.
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