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SECTIONTWO Program Plan risks, ice jam flooding, dam failure inundation hazards, potential for wildfires, boundaries of actual wildfires, and exacerbated flood risks associated with wildfires. • Support FEMA's initiative to publish digital flood maps in-lieu of the traditional paper FIRMs and encourage the most rapid migration possible to digital maps. This includes the CWCB's advocation of a true digital mapping environment and total elimination of printed map panels (or print on demand only) by January 2006. These objectives, along with the details of how these activities will help achieve the Map Modernization goals, are described in more depth in the sections below. After these objectives are discussed below, the requirements to achieve these objectives are detailed in section 2.2. Section 3 will show how the program plan will be evaluated against FEMA performance measures. Lastly, the program objectives and requirements will be weighed against each other for varying levels of funding in Section 4. 2.1.1 Statewide Needs Assessment The State of Colorado initially identified a prioritized list of counties to receive map updates as part of the 2002 Map Modernization Implementation Plan (MMIP), which was submitted to FEMA in 2002 and is included herein by reference only. It is available from the CWCB for review upon request. Since the creation of the MMIP, both FEMA and the state have reviewed their initial guidance for prioritizing and selecting counties for map updates and determined that some changes are warranted. As a result, the CWCB has revised its initial prioritization criteria and intends to update them on an annual basis so the priority list can be a"living" document. In doing this, the CWCB hopes to accommodate not only changes to guidance or criteria, but also changes to watershed conditions that will alter flood risk, as well as development booms that are anticipated or that may occur within the next 5-years. This approach will also accommodate other factors such as "completed" mapping studies, funding availability, and local floodplain mapping activities. Due to changes in the natural environment and the human-impacted environment, flood risk within the state is dynamic and should be evaluated on a yearly basis. As state agencies are involved with or aware of many of these changes, there is frequently enough in-house knowledge to update needs within a county or specific geographic area without additional input from local officials every year. However, the CWCB will make a concerted effort to conduct community outreach by contacting local governments via email, telephone, regular mail, or other methods to convey and obtain relevant information flood-related information that will assist in assessing flood hazard risk within the state. Countywide Mapping Needs Assessment - The CWCB prioritization process involves a quantitative, or primary, ranking of all 64 counties within Colorado, re~ardless of whether or not thev have received a Di~ital Flood Insurance Rate Ma~ (Digital FIRM). Once this quantitative ranking is completed, the counties are divided into equal groups, or tiers of general priority. The highest-ranking group (top 25% of counties) is then evaluated based on a qualitative, or secondary, set of criteria to determine the map updates that will be performed for any given fiscal year. For the final year of the initial 5-year Map Modernization program the top 50% of counties will be evaluated, because the current schedule calls for so many counties to be mapped in FY 2008 (33 out of 64 total counties). The prioritization parameters and the rankings for the quantitative portion of the needs assessment will be revisited on a yearly basis, and the remaining Colorado Business Case Plan (Final Draft) 2-2