(A) The town’s Floodplain Board designates the town’s Clerk-Treasurer as the Floodplain Administrator to administer and implement the provisions of these regulations and other appropriate sections of national flood insurance program regulations in C.F.R. Title 44 pertaining to floodplain management.
(Prior Code, § 9-4-13)
(B) Duties and responsibilities of the Floodplain Administrator shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) Become accredited by the OWRB in accordance with 82 O.S. §§ 1601 through 1618, as amended;
(2) Review permit applications to determine whether the proposed building sites, including the placement of manufactured homes, will be reasonably safe from flooding;
(3) Review, approve or deny all applications for development permits required by these regulations;
(4) Review proposed development to assure that all necessary permits have been obtained from those federal, state or local governmental agencies from which prior approvals are required;
(5) Make the necessary interpretation where interpretation is needed as to the exact location of the boundaries of the areas of special flood hazards (for example, where there appears to be a conflict between a mapped boundary and actual field conditions);
(6) Notify, in riverine situations, adjacent communities and the OWRB prior to any alteration or relocation of a watercourse, and submit evidence of such notification to the FEMA;
(7) Assure that the flood-carrying capacity within the altered or relocated portion of any watercourse is maintained;
(9) After a disaster or other type of damage occurrence to structures in the town, determine if the residential and non-residential structures and manufactured homes have been substantially damaged, and enforce the substantial improvement requirement;
(10) Maintain a record of all actions involving an appeal from a decision of the Floodplain Board;
(11) Maintain and hold open for public inspection all records pertaining to the provisions of these regulations;
(12) When a regulatory floodway has not been designated, the Floodplain Administrator must require that no new construction, substantial improvements or other development (including fill) shall be permitted within Zone AE on the community’s FIRM, unless it is demonstrated that the cumulative effect of the proposed development, when combined with all other existing and anticipated development, will not increase the water surface elevation of the base flood more than one foot at any point within the town; and
(13) May approve certain development in Zone AE on the town’s FIRM which increases the water surface elevation of the base flood by more than one foot; provided that, the developer first applies for a conditional letter of map revision through FEMA (in accordance with 44 C.F.R. Ch. 1, § 65.12, of the NFIP program regulations).
(Prior Code, § 9-4-14)
(Res. 2010-03, passed 6-14-2010)