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Page 9 <br /> Honorable Brad Van Nest . <br /> Page �ao � <br /> Since the Flood Insurance Study establishing the 100-year base flood <br /> elevations for your community has been completed, certain additional <br /> requirements must be met under Section 1361 of the National Flood <br /> Insurance Act of 1968, as amended. The community is required, as a <br /> condition of continued eligibility in the National Flood Insurance <br /> Program (NFIP) , to adopt or show evidence of adoption of flood plain <br /> management regulations that meet the standards of Section 1910.3 (d) <br /> of the enclosed Program regulations (24 CFR 1909, etc.) within six <br /> months of the date of this letter. These standards are the mini.mum <br /> requirements and do not supersede any state or local requirements of a <br /> more stringent nature. <br /> The Standards of Section 1910.3 (d) which your community is required to <br /> meet are explained in brief on the attachment accompanying this letter. <br /> Zt mus't be emphasized that all of the standards specified in this <br /> section of the program regulations must be enacted in a legally enforceable <br /> document. Some of these standards should already have been enacted by <br /> your community in order to establish initial eligiblity in the National <br /> Flood Insurance Program. Therefore, compliance by your community with <br /> the additional flood plain management requirements may be accomplished <br /> in a number of ways. For example, your community may: <br /> (1) incorporate existing regulations by reference in <br /> any new regulations adopted to meet the additional <br /> requirements of Section 1910.3 (d) , or <br /> (2) adopt all of the 1910.3 (d) standards in one <br /> new, comprehensive set of regulations, or <br /> (3) show evidence that regulations have previously <br /> been adopted which meet or exceed the minimum _ <br /> requirements of Section 1910.3 (d) . _ <br /> Communities that fail to enact the necessary flood plain management <br /> regulations will be suspended from participation in the program and . <br /> subject to the prohibitions contained in Section 202(a) of the 1973 Act <br /> as amended. � <br /> The effective date of your co�nunity's Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) <br /> also marks the date that actuarial rates for flood insurance will be <br /> charged for all new construction and substantial improvements to existing <br /> structures, and these rates may be higher if construction is not built <br /> in compliance with the flood plain management standards of the National <br /> Flood Insurance Program. As you may know, the actuarial flood insurance <br />