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<section article="gnr" article_name="Natural Resources" number="3-1001" title_number="3" title_name="Environmental Programs" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Sea Level Rise Inundation and Coastal Flooding">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Coast Smart” means a construction practice in which preliminary planning, siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and repair of a structure or highway facility avoids or minimizes future impacts associated with coastal flooding and sea level rise inundation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Coast Smart” includes design criteria and siting criteria that are applicable throughout the entire life cycle of a project.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Council” means the Coast Smart Council.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Design criteria” means standard specifications related to the shape, size, or form of a construction practice.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Freshwater” means water with a total dissolved–solid concentration of less than 1,000 mg/L.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Highway facility” has the meaning stated in § 3–101(f) of the Transportation Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Nuisance flooding” means high–tide flooding that causes public inconvenience.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Replacement cost” means, at the time of reconstruction, the cost of reconstructing a structure and its surrounding property to full use with materials of the same kind and quality as the original materials.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Replacement cost” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The value of the land on which a structure is located; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>For tax purposes, a deduction for depreciation.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Saltwater intrusion” means the movement of water with a total dissolved–solid concentration greater than or equal to 1,000 mg/L to freshwater.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Saltwater intrusion” includes saltwater intrusion into surface water, aquifers, and soils.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Sea level rise inundation” means the inundation of land from a sea level rise of 2 feet, as determined by the Council.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Siting criteria” means specifications related to the location or use of a structure or highway facility.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“Structure” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A walled or roofed building;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A manufactured home; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A gas or liquid storage tank that is principally above ground.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <text>“Substantial damage” means damage caused by any source that is sustained by a structure such that the cost of reconstruction to its before–damaged condition is at least half of the structure’s replacement cost before the damage occurred.</text>
  </level>
</section>
