1413 AMH EDDY MOET 059

HB 1413 - H AMD 137

By Representative Eddy

ADOPTED 3/9/2007

   On page 4, line 1, after "(g)" strike all material through "state" on line 17 and insert the following:

""Floodway" means the area, as identified in a master program, that either: (i) Has been established in federal emergency management agency flood insurance rate maps or floodway maps; or (ii) consists of those portions of ((the area of)) a river valley lying streamward from the outer limits of a watercourse upon which flood waters are carried during periods of flooding that occur with reasonable regularity, although not necessarily annually, said floodway being identified, under normal condition, by changes in surface soil conditions or changes in types or quality of vegetative ground cover condition, topography or other indicators of past flooding. Regardless of the method used to identify the floodway, the floodway shall not include those lands that can reasonably be expected to be protected from flood waters by flood control devices maintained by or maintained under license from the federal government, the state, or a political subdivision of the state"

EFFECT: Amends the Shoreline Management Act definition of "floodway."