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• Board Meeting Date: 7/11/2007
• Description: OWCDP - Updated Drought Mitigation & Response Plan Information to Meet Requirements of the FEMA Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Updated Information Provided In Support of the
2002 Colorado Drought "Mitigation and Response Plan
page 3

Description of plan preparation process

The process used to update the Hazard Mitigation Plan in 2004 is documented in Appendix G3.

For this update, the CWCB, through its staff, was responsible for providing relevant updates for
the drought portions of the State of Colorado Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan 2007 Update. The
CWCB then contracted with Leonard Rice Engineers, Inc. (LRE) to assist in this effort.
Working together, the team developed the following strategy to update the drought information
for inclusion in the 2007 Update.

CWCB staff provided LRE with relevant information, including the following:
FEMA's Blue Book Update Introduction (11/02/06), Standard State Plan Update Guidance
(11/02/06), Standard State Updated Crosswalk (11/02/06), DEM's State olColorado Natural
Hazard Mitigation Plan 2004, Colorado Drought Mitigation and Response Plan (updated 2002),
and State Emergency Operations Plan (May 2006); and CWCB's Drought and Water Supply
Assessment (2004). Several other key documents and studies were provided; all references used
are listed in the bibliography.

LRE then compared the federal requirements to the existing plans, and identified which
section(s) of the current plans fulfilled the various FEMA requirements. Sections that needed to
be updated were identified in concert with CWCB staff input. LRE reviewed several documents
that had become available subsequent to the 2004 Plan, and identified information that could be
used to update the existing drought-related portions of the plan. CWCB staff also identified
outside agencies that should be contacted to provide updated information. In instances where
there were new FEMA requirements that had not applied to the previous update, LRE and
CWCB identified appropriate existing data and information that could be used to fulfill these
requirements. In some cases, the information was simply not available, nor could it be obtained
in time for the 2007 update. When this occurred, this report makes recommendations for
obtaining the needed information and data during the next plan update cycle, so it can be
incorporated into the 2010 update.

Colorado Water Conservation Board

June 2007