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July 6, 2007 Page 10 local code enforcement official and which are the minimum necessary to assure safe living conditions; or [(B)] ~ any alteration of a "historic structure," provided that the alteration will not preclude the structure's continued designation as a "historic structure." "Watershed" means a bounded hydrologic system[;] where all of the water, whether subterranean or surface, may drain into rivers streams, lakes, intermittent watercourses, estuaries, wetlands, aquifers, and ultimately into the ocean, and which is linked by that common drainage. Watersheds supply drinking water, are essential to a healthy ecology for plants and animals, provide recreation and respite, and sustain life. "Zone D" designates unstudied areas where flood hazards aze undetermined: but oossible. "Zone X (shaded)" [are-t~reesJ is an area of moderate flood hazard corresponding to azeas of the five-hundred-yeaz floodplain, areas of one-hundred-yeaz flooding where average depths are less than one foot, azeas of one-hundred-yeaz flooding where the contributing drainage azea is less than one squaze mile, and azeas protected from the one-hundred-year flood by levees. "Zone X (not shaded)" [ere-areas] is an area of minimal flood hazazd corresponding to azeas outside of the five-hundred-yeaz floodplain. Base flood elevations or depths have not been determined for Zone X knot shaded). •J SUMMARY.• "Area of shallow flooding" -Housekeeping (improve style and formatting); "Base flood elevation (BFE) " -Housekeeping (created acronym for convenience); "Channel " -New definition; "Critical facilities"-new definition with paragraph style formatting; "Encroachment" -Housekeeping; "Federal Insurance Administration (FIA) or Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) " -Add new definition and used acronyms for convenience; "Flood, flooding, or floodwater" removed language per DPW request;