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<br />Page 4 <br /> <br />14. "Floodplain management" means the operation of an overall <br />program of corrective and preventive measures for reducing <br />flood damage, including, but not. limited to, zoning or <br />land-use. regulations, flood control works, and emergency <br />preparedness plans. <br /> <br />15. "Floodplain management regulations. mean zoning <br />ordinances, subdivision regulations, building codes, hea.Jth <br />regulations, special purpose ordinances (such as a <br />floodplain ordinance, grading ordinance, or erosion control <br />ordinance) and other applications of police power. The <br />term describes such state or local regulations, in any <br />combination thereof,. which provide standards for the <br />purpose of flood damage prevention and reduction. <br /> <br />16. "Flooded area map" means a drawing wh i ch shows in plan <br />view the horizontal boundary .of floods of various <br />magnitudes .or frequencies. Such maps include, .but are not <br />limited to, Flood Hazard Boundary Maps (FHBM) and Flood <br />Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) published by FEMA, Floodprone <br />Area Maps published by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), <br />Flooded Area Maps published by the Corps of Engineers <br />(COE), Flood Hazard Area Maps published by the U.S. Soil <br />Conservation Service (SCS), Flooded Area Maps published by <br />. the Board, and Flood Hazard Area Delineations (FHAD) <br />published by the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District . <br />. (UD&FCD). <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />17. "Foreseeable development" means the potential future <br />development oJ, or. chang.esin, the land uses that are <br />likely to take place during the period of time covered by a <br />community's adopted master land use plan, or over a 20-year <br />period, whichever is longer. <br /> <br />18. "Freeboard" means the vertical distance in feet above'a <br />predicted water surface elevation which is intended to <br />provide a margin of safety to compensate for the many <br />unknown factors that could contribute to flood heiahts <br />greater than the height calculated for a selected size <br />flood such as wave action, bridge openings, and the <br />hYdrological effect of urbanization.of the watershed. <br /> <br />19. "HEC-2" means the most recently revised version of the <br />computer program developed by the U.S." Army Corps of <br />Engineer's (COE) Hydraulic Engineering Center (HEC) for <br />calculating flood water surface elevations. <br /> <br />/A\. <br />~ ;.>.].....1. . <br />'-Y,r <br />\_~::---;.. <br /> <br />2CCR 408-1 <br /> <br />THE CODE OF COLORADO REGULATIONS <br /> <br />i~ ", <br />\'" <br />