10.1-603.16 - Definitions.
§ 10.1-603.16. Definitions.
As used in this article unless the context requires a different meaning:
"Authority" means the Virginia Resources Authority created in Chapter 21 (§62.1-197 et seq.) of Title 62.1.
"Board" means the Board of Directors of the Virginia Resources Authority.
"Cost," as applied to any project financed under the provisions of thisarticle, means the total of all costs incurred by the local government orprivate entity as reasonable and necessary for carrying out all works andundertakings necessary or incident to the accomplishment of any project. Itincludes, without limitation, all necessary developmental, planning andfeasibility studies, surveys, plans and specifications; hydrologic andhydraulic studies and analyses; architectural, engineering, financial, legalor other special services; mapping; the cost of acquisition of flood-proneland and any buildings and improvements thereon, including the discharge ofany obligations of the sellers of such land, buildings or improvements; sitepreparation and development, including demolition or removal of existingstructures; construction and reconstruction; labor; materials, machinery andequipment; the reasonable costs of financing incurred by the local governmentor private entity in the course of the development of the project; carryingcharges incurred before placing the project in service; necessary expensesincurred in connection with placing the project in service; the funding ofaccounts and reserves that the Authority may require; and the cost of otheritems that the Authority determines to be reasonable and necessary.
"Dam owner" means the owner of the land on which a dam is situated, theholder of an easement permitting the construction of a dam and any person orentity agreeing to maintain a dam.
"Department" means the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
"Director" means the Director of the Department of Conservation andRecreation.
"Flood prevention or protection" means the construction of dams, levees,flood walls, channel improvements or diversions, local flood proofing,evacuation of flood-prone areas or land use controls which reduce or mitigatedamage from flooding.
"Flood prevention or protection studies" means hydraulic and hydrologicstudies of flood plains with historic and predicted floods, the assessment offlood risk and the development of strategies to prevent or mitigate damagefrom flooding.
"Fund" or "revolving fund" means the Dam Safety, Flood Prevention andProtection Assistance Fund.
"Local funds" means cash provided for project or study implementation thatis not derived from federal or state grants or loans.
"Local government" means any county, city, town, municipal corporation,authority, district, commission, or political subdivision created by theGeneral Assembly or pursuant to the Constitution or laws of the Commonwealth,or any combination of any two or more of the foregoing.
"Private entities" means dam owners, whether individuals, partnerships,corporations, or other nongovernmental entities.
"Project" means the development and implementation of activities ormeasures performed to eliminate, prevent, reduce, or mitigate damages causedby flooding or to identify flood hazards; the design, repair, and safetymodifications of a dam or impounding structure, as defined in § 10.1-604, andidentified in dam safety reports generated pursuant to § 10.1-607 or10.1-609; or the mapping and digitization of dam break inundation zones. Theterm includes, without limitation, the construction, modification or repairof dams, levees, flood walls, channel improvements or diversions; evacuation,relocation, and retrofitting of flood-prone structures; flood warning andresponse systems; redevelopment, acquisition, and open-space use offlood-prone areas; hydrologic and hydraulic studies of floodplains withhistoric and predicted floods; remapping of regulated flood hazard areas; theassessment of flood risks; the development of flood hazard mitigationstrategies and plans, flood prevention and protection studies, and matchingfunds for federal funds for these activities. The lands involved with suchprojects shall be located within the Commonwealth.
(1989, cc. 462, 498; 1995, c. 510; 2002, c. 320; 2006, cc. 648, 765.)