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(g) Maintain and establish appropriate vegetative cover in high rainfall, sediment, and <br /> debris producing areas to reduce surface run-off in the watershed, decrease the risk of <br /> <br /> watercourse obstruction, and ocean pollution. <br /> (h) Maintain and re-establish forest cover in mauka areas to improve the capacity of the <br /> ground to absorb heave rainfall and to recharge aquifers. <br /> (i) Establish and maintain floodplains as open space, parks, greenways, and endangered <br /> species habitat and flyways. <br /> (il Implement a Flood Plain Management Program that shall comply with section 5 <br /> of the Hawaii County General Plan. <br /> SECTION 4. Chapter 27, azticle 2, section 27-5, Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 <br /> edition), as amended, is amended to read as follows: <br /> Section 27-5. Applicability. <br /> (a) This chapter shall apply to all azeas of special flood hazazds identified by <br /> the Federal Insurance Administration in a scientific and engineering report <br /> entitled "Flood Insurance Study," dated [ Anri12, 2004, <br /> with accompanying Flood Insurance Rate Maps and all <br /> future changes, revisions and amendments[;] to these documents, and shall <br /> apply to all areas outside the identified special flood hazazd areas <br /> encompassing and adjacent to a river, stream, stormwater channel, outfall <br /> area, or other inland water or drainage facility determined by the director <br /> of public works to be subject to flood hazazds. The special flood hazazd <br /> azeas are as follows: <br /> (1) Floodway fringe -Zones AE, AH, and AO. <br /> (2) Floodway. <br /> (3) Coastal high hazazd (tsunami) - Zones V and VE. <br /> (4) General floodplain -Zone A. <br /> (5) Land adjacent to drainage facilities, and Zone A99. <br /> (b) This chapter shall not apply to: <br /> (1) Any building permit lawfully issued prior to May 5, 1982 or <br /> building permit application properly filed and accepted for review <br /> prior to May 5, 1982, provided that approval was obtained without <br /> any significant changes in plans or specifications made after <br /> May 5, 1982. <br /> (2) Roadway and site improvements for subdivisions for which <br /> tentative approval had been granted prior to May 5, 1982 and <br /> where roadway and site improvement construction and grading <br /> plans had received all necessazy agency approvals by May 5, 1982. <br /> (3) Carnivals, luaus, fairs, and camping tents of a temporary nature <br /> which aze not in a floodway. <br /> 4 <br /> <br />