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<br />Administrator - The local administrative official <br />responsible for administering and implementing these <br />regulations as set forth in Section 4.1.1. <br /> <br />Applicant - Any individual, partnership, corporation, <br />association, company, or public body, including the federal <br />government, or any political subdivision, agency, <br />corporation, or instrumentality of the state applying for a <br />floodplain development permit pursuant to these regulations. <br /> <br />Base flood - A flood having a one percent chance of being <br />equalled or exceeded in any given year. The term is used <br />interchangeably with "Intermediate Regional Flood," "one <br />hundred year flood," and "one percent chance flood." <br /> <br />Channel - A natural or artificial watercourse of perceptible <br />extent with definite bed and banks which confines and <br />conducts continuously or intermittently flowing water. <br /> <br />Designated Floodplain District (DFD) - That area which has <br />been deslgnated as a floodplain by official action of the <br />(local governing body) which is subject to flooding as a <br />result of the base flood, and for which water surface <br />elevations have been established by a detailed engineering <br />study that has been designated and approved by an official <br />action of the Colorado Wate~ Conservation Board, as required <br />by state statutes. A Designated Floodplain District may be <br />divided into two sUbdistricts, the Floodway District (FWD), <br />and the Floodfringe District (FFD), defined further below. <br /> <br />Development - Any construction or activity that changes the <br />basic character or the topography of the land on which the <br />construction or activity occurs, including , but not limited <br />to, any manmade change to improved or unimproved real <br />estate, construction or substantial improvement of buildings <br />or other structures, mininq, dredging, filling, grading, <br />paving, excavation, or dril~ing operations, dam, wall, <br />embankment, levee, dike, pi~e, abutment, projection, <br />excavation, channel rectification, bridge, culvert, fence, <br />fill. <br /> <br />Energy grade line - A line showing the total energy of the <br />flow across a cross-section. <br /> <br />Flood - A general and temporary condition of partial or <br />complete inundation of normally dry land areas from (a) the <br />overflow of streams, rivers, or other inland water bodies or <br />(b) the unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface <br />waters from any source. <br /> <br />Floodplain development permit - An official document <br />required by Subsection 4.2.1 of these regulations for <br />development in a floodplain. Such permits are issued by the <br /> <br />-3- <br />