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<br /> July 6, 2007 <br /> Page 9 <br /> "Historic structure" means any structure that is: <br /> (B) certified or preliminarily determined by the Secretazy of the Interior as <br /> contributing to the historical significance of a registered historic district or a <br /> district yreliminazily determined by the Secretary to aualify as a registered <br /> historic district; <br /> (D) individually listed on a local inventory of historic places in communities <br /> with historic preservation programs that have been certified either: <br /> (i) by an approved State program as determined by the Secretary of the <br /> Interior, or <br /> (ii) directly by the Secretary of the Interior in states [witl3] without <br /> approved programs. <br /> "Levee" means aman-made structure, usually an earthen embankment, designed and <br /> constructed in accordance with sound engineering practices to contain, control, or divert <br /> the flow of water [se-as] to provide protection from temporary flooding. <br /> "Regulatory floodway" means the channel of a river or other watercourse and the <br /> adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to dischazge the base flood without <br /> cumulatively increasine the water surface elevation. <br /> "Special flood hazazd area" means an azea having special flood[, <br /> .....a---~=~ <br /> ~u~] or flood-related erosion hazards, and shown on the Flood Insurance Rate <br /> Maps as Zones A, AO, AE, A99, AH, VE or V. <br /> "Substantial improvement." For the purposes of this chapter, the detemunation of <br /> whether any improvements constitute substantial improvements is applicable only to <br /> structures built prior to May 5, 1982 or buildings constructed after May 5, 1982 which <br /> were not within a special flood hazazd azea at the time of issuing the building permit. <br /> "Substantial improvement" means any repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, or <br /> other proposed new development of a structure, the cost of which is determined and <br /> certified by a contractor, engineer, or architect licensed by the State, and which equals or <br /> exceeds fifty percent of the mazket value of the structure before the "start of <br /> construction" of the improvement which shall be the sum of all costs of all such work <br /> performed in the previous ten yeazs including the cost of the current work being <br /> considered. This term includes structures which have incurred "substantial damage," <br /> regazdless of the actual repair work performed. The term does not, however, include <br /> eithetf_] <br /> [{t~] ~ any project for improvement of a structure to correct existing violations of state <br /> or local health, sanitary, or safety code specifications which have been identified by the <br /> <br />