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• 37 Under the authority outline in Section 1.7, the Board of Commissioners of Orange County,North Carolina, does ordain as follows: Sec. 4.2.37 Findings of fact. a) The flood prone areas within the jurisdiction of Orange County are subject to periodic inundation, which results in loss of life, property, health and safety hazards, disruption of commerce and governmental services, extraordinary public expenditures of flood protection and relief, and impairment of the tax base, all of which adversely affect the public health, safety, and general welfare. b) These flood losses are caused by the cumulative effect of obstructions in floodplains causing increases in flood heights and velocities, and by the occupancy in flood prone areas by uses vulnerable to floods or hazards to other lands, which are inadequately elevated, flood proofed, or otherwise unprotected from flood damages. Sec. 4.2.38. Applicability. This regulation shall apply to all SFHAs within the jurisdiction, including Extra- Territorial Jurisdictions (ETJ), if applicable, of Orange County and within the jurisdiction of any other Orange County whose governing body agrees, by resolution, to such applicability. Sec. 4.2.39 Basis for establishing the Special Flood Hazard Area Overlay Distict (SFHA). The SFHA are those identified by the FEMA or produced under the Cooperating Technical State agreement between the State of North Carolina and FEMA or Flood . Insurance Study(FIS) and its accompanying FIRMS for Orange County dated February 2, 2007, with incorporation of Letters of Map Amendments 07-04-6156R, 08-04-2897A, 08-04-2898A, 08-04-2899A, and 08-04-2900A, Letters of Map Revision 06-04-BQ22P, 06-04-C141P, 07-04-6156R, and 08-04-1666P and Summary of Map Amendment #115- CWG (C) dated May 16, 2008, which with accompanying supporting data, including Letters of Map Amendment or Revision and Summary of Map Amendments, are adopted by reference and declared to be a part of this Ordinance. The SFHA also include those defined through standard engineering analysis for private developments or by governmental agencies, but not incorporated into the FIRM. This includes, but is not limited to, detailed flood data: 1. Detailed flood data generated as a requirement of Section 21.11 (11/12) of this Ordinance; 2. Preliminary FIRMS where more stringent than the effective FIRM; or 3. Post-disaster Flood Recovery Maps, if available.