Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - NATURAL RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF › Title 455 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES - FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT › Chapter 1 - MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS › Section 455-1-002 - Definitions

Current through June 17, 2024
As used in this Chapter, unless the context otherwise
				  requires, the following definitions shall apply:
002.01 Appurtenant structure
"Appurtenant structure" shall mean a structure on the same
				  parcel of property as the principal structure, the use of which is incidental
				  to the use of the principal structure.
002.02 Base flood
"Base flood" shall mean the flood having a one per cent
				  chance of being equalled or exceeded in magnitude in any given
				  year.
002.03 Basement
"Basement" shall mean any area of the building having its
				  floor subgrade (below ground level) on all sides.
002.04 Drainway
"Drainway" shall mean any depression two feet or more below
				  the land which serves to give direction to a current of water less than nine
				  months of the year, and which has a bed and well-defined
				  banks.
002.05 Existing
				manufactured home park or subdivision
"Existing manufactured home park or subdivision" shall mean
				  a manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction of
				  facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be
				  affixed (including, at a minimum, the installation of utilities, the
				  construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of
				  concrete pads) is complete before the effective date of the floodplain
				  management regulations adopted by a community.
002.06 Flood
"Flood" shall mean the water of any watercourse or drainway
				  which is above the bank or outside the channel and banks of such watercourse or
				  drainway.
002.07 Floodway
"Floodway" shall mean the channel of a watercourse or
				  drainway and the adjacent land areas that are necessary to be reserved in order
				  to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface
				  elevation more than one foot.
002.08 Flood fringe
"Flood fringe" shall mean that portion of the floodplain of
				  the base flood which is outside of the floodway.
002.09 Floodplain
"Floodplain" shall mean the area adjoining a watercourse or
				  drainway which has been or may be covered by floodwaters.
002.10 Floodplain management regulations
"Floodplain management regulations" shall mean and include
				  zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations, building codes, and other
				  applications of the police power which are authorized by law to secure safety
				  from floods and provide for the reasonable and prudent use of
				  floodplains.
002.11 Historic
				structure
"Historic structure" shall mean any structure that is:
(a) listed individually in the
				National Register of Historic Places (a listing maintained by the U.S.
				Department of Interior) or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the
				Interior as meeting the requirements for individual listing on the National
				Register;
(b) certified or
				preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as contributing to
				the historical significance of a registered historic district or a district
				preliminarily determined by the Secretary to qualify as a registered historic
				district;
(c) individually listed
				on a state inventory of historic places in states with historic preservation
				programs which have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior; or
(d) individually listed on a local
				inventory of historic places in communities with historic preservation programs
				that have been certified either;
(1) by an
				approved state program as determined by the Secretary of the Interior or
(2) directly by the Secretary of
				the Interior in states without approved programs.