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. . Page Two Since the Flood Insurance Study establishing the 100-year base fl00d elevations for your community has been completed, certain additional requirements must be met under Section 1361 of the National Fl00d Insurance Act of 1968, as amended. The community is required, as a condition of continued eligibility in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), to adopt or show evidence of adoption of fl00d plain management regulations that meet the standards of Section 60.3 (d) of the enclosed Program regulations (44 CFR 59, etc.) within six months of the date of this letter. These standards are the minimum requirements and do not supersede any state or looal requirements of a more stringent nature. The Standards of Section 60.3 (d) which your community is required to meet are explained in brief on the attachment accompanying this letter. It must be emphasized that all of the standards specified in this section of the progra m regulations must be enacted in a legally enforceable document. Some of these standards should already have been enacted by your community in order to establish initial eligibility in the National Fl00d Insurance Program. Therefore, compliance by your community with the additional fl00d plain manage- ment requirements may be accomplished in a number of ways. For example, your community may: (1) incorporate existing regulations by referenc e in any new regulations adopted to meet the additional requirements of Section 60.3 (d), or (2) adopt all of the 60.3 (d) standards in one new, comprehensive set of regulations, or (3) show evidence that regulations have previous ly been adopted which meet or exceed the minimum requirements of Section 60.3 (d). Communities that fail to enact the necessary fl00d plain management regulations will be suspended from participation in the program and subject to the prohibi- tions contained in Section 202(a) of the 1973 Act as amended. The effective date of your community's Fl00d Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) also marks the date that actuarial rates for fl00d insurance will be charged for all new construction and substantial improvements to existing structures, and these rates may be higher if construction is not built in compliance with the flood plain management standards of the National Flood Insurance Program.