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G. Maintenance shall be required for any altered or relocated portions of watercourses so that the flood-carrying capacity is not diminished. Sec. 17.56.166-Properties removed from the floodplain by fill. A Floodplain Development Permit shall not be issued for the construction of a new structure or addition to an existing structure on a property removed from the floodplain by the issuance of a FEMA Letter of Map Revision Based on Fill (LOMR-F), with a lowest floor elevation placed less than one foot above the base flood elevation that existed before the LOMR-F was issued. Sec. 17.56.168-Critical facilities. A critical facility is a structure or related infrastructure, but not the land on which it is situated, as specified in Rule 6 of the Rules and Regulations for Regulatory Floodplains in Colorado, that if flooded may result in significant hazards to public health and safety or interrupt essential services and operations for the community at any time before, during and after a flood. A. Classification of critical facilities. It is the responsibility of the city council to identify and confirm that specific structures in their community meet the following criteria: Critical facilities are classified under the following categories: (a) Essential Services; (b) Hazardous Materials; (c) At-risk Populations; and (d) Vital to Restoring Normal Services. I. Essential services facilities include public safety, emergency response, emergency medical, designated emergency shelters, communications, public utility plant facilities, and transportation lifelines. These facilities consist of: a. Public safety (police stations, fire and rescue stations, emergency vehicle and equipment storage, and, emergency operation centers); b. Emergency medical (hospitals, ambulance service centers, urgent care centers having emergency treatment functions, and non-ambulatory surgical structures but excluding clinics, doctors offices, and non-urgent care medical structures that do not provide these functions); c. Designated emergency shelters; d. Communications (main hubs for telephone, broadcasting equipment for cable systems, satellite dish systems, cellular systems, television, radio, and other emergency warning systems, but excluding towers, poles, lines, cables, and conduits); e. Public utility plant facilities for generation and distribution ( hubs, treatment plants, substations and pumping stations for water, power and gas, but not including towers, poles, power lines, buried pipelines, transmission lines, distribution lines, and service lines); and f. Air Transportation lifelines (airports (municipal and larger), helicopter pads Ordinance No.1625,Series 2012 Page 21 of 31 21