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SECTIONTWO Program Plan 2.1.3 Scoping Meetings Once individual counties have been identified and agreed upon by CWCB and FEMA (and, as appropriate, by UDFCD), detailed Scoping Meetings need to be conducted in order to: • Ensure significant community involvement in the map revision process; • Acquire and assess the completeness and quality of available data to be used in the restudy or remapping; • Determine the need for additional data to ensure final products of high quality and geographic comprehensiveness; and • Clearly identify the scope of the proj ect so that the needs and concerns of all parties are addressed and a contract can be completed with the consultant Scoping Meetings will be conducted within the framework and guidelines on scoping documented in FEMA's scoping document titled "Guidance for Scoping Flood Mapping Projects". Scoping Meetings will be conducted in coordination with and with the support of FEMA Regional personnel to support FEMA's objectives of building and maintaining mutually beneficial partnerships and expand and better inform the user community. The CWCB believes that early and active participation in meetings with the communities impacted by these map updates will create buy-in at the local level, which will directly result in a mutually beneficial cooperative relationship. For many years CWCB has wanted an opportunity to improve such partnerships, particularly with local governments in Colorado. It has been clear just in conducting Early Implementation Success studies in the City and County of Denver and in Douglas County, as part of FY' 03 efforts, the greatly enhanced partnerships with local officials have paid major dividends in return for the extra effort entailed. Additional information that will be distributed to communities before and at the meeting, as well as examples of some of the tools to be used at these meetings is included in Appendix C. 2.1.4 Perform Hydrologic and Hydraulic Studies and Mapping In accordance with the existing CTP partnership with FEMA, the CWCB is currently undergoing an effort to update FEMA's paper inventory of FIRMs to DFIRMs. Updating a manual FIRM to a DIFRM provides communities with a more accessible floodplain management tool than was previously available, and often provides improved flood hazard data for floodplain management purposes. However, there are instances where funding is limited or conditions change once the DFIRM is completed. In these instances an adequate plan for maintenance of planimetric, hydrologic, and hydraulic information must be in place to ensure that underlying planimetric data and hydrologic and hydraulic data overlaid on the planimetric information are accurate and that the flood maps for Colorado do not become outdated and unreliable. To address these concerns, the CWCB would like to conduct flood mapping on both a countywide and site- specific basis. The CWCB will coordinate mapping updates in coordination with FEMA's current Guidelines and Specifications for Flood Hazard Mapping Partners. The CWCB supports FEMA's efforts to make floodplain information available digitally, and is interested in pursuing the initiative to give digital floodplain maps the same legal authority that the paper maps currently have. To support this initiative, Colorado's flood mapping program is designed to be flexible enough to support Colorado Business Case Plan (Final Draft) 2-5