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• Board Meeting Date: 9/18/2007
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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A notice of intent (NO I) about the application and the hearings was advertised in the newspapers
of record in all of the target area counties and adjacent counties, and hearing materials were also
posted to the CWCB website. The hearings were recorded for the public record and staff is
developing the records of decision and terms and conditions in the permit for CWCB Director's
consideration. The public record was held open an extra week until August 24th, but Staff has
not received additional comments on the permit applications.

Hearing attendees included the project sponsors, cloud seeding contractors, CWCB staff, and
AGO representative.

The Summit County newspapers published a story and the Gunnison Paper intends to publish a
follow-up article.

The permits, if granted, will be valid through March 31,2012 and the NOI advertised the
programs as continuous programs to make the public aware of the ongoing nature of wintertime
cloud seeding as evidenced in 30-50 years of operations in UT, ND, CA, TX and CO.

FLOODPLAIN MAP MODERNIZATION PROGRAM:

FEMA Funding for FY07 projects
The CWCB received $1.04 million from FEMA, $546K of in-kind value matching
contributions and $23K in matching funding from local communities and $118k in
matching funds for the FY07 Map Modernization DFIRM projects in Colorado. This
year Summit, EI Paso, and Delta counties will begin and there is still the hope that
additional funds will be received to begin Park County in FY07 as well. Work is to be
done by Anderson Consulting Engineers and PBS&J.

This phase of the Map Modernization program is a five year program with a nationwide
budget of $1 billion. By FY08 the Flood Protection Section of the CWCB plans to have
about half of the counties within Colorado started, in progress or completely through the
DFIRM program. It is expected that FEMA will obtain the support of Congress to
continue the nationwide digital conversion program with the inclusion of a map
maintenance program after FY08.

Colorado is a leading state for FEMA Region VIII in terms of helping achieve mapped
population and stream mile goals and continues to provide cost sharing leverage for
digital conversion and detailed study projects.

Levees within Colorado: Michael Baker Jr. continues to investigate 44 CFR 65.10
compliance for levees in the Map Modernization project counties for Colorado. The
CWCB continues to coordinate with the Corps of Engineers levee ceIiification guidance
for Corps owned levees within Colorado, especially in current DFIRM project counties
like Pueblo County and EI Paso County.

Non-CWCB Map Modernization projects in the State: It is expected that the Eagle

County maps will be effective in December 2007. The LaPlata County new Zone A

Flood Protection. Water Project Planning and Finance. Sn-eam and Lake Protection
Water Supply Protection. Conservation Planning