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<br />Mapping Plan for Colorado <br /> <br />8.0 Cooperation With the Urban Drainage & Flood Control District <br /> <br />Of the "top 16 counties" in the CWCB rankings, 7 are within the Urban Drainage & Flood Control <br />District. The District is already a Cooperating Technical Partner (CTP) with FEMA, party to an <br />agreement that has facilitated the processing of LOMCs in the Denver metropolitan area. The District <br />and some of its member communities have also initiated pilot projects to prepare updated FIRMS in the <br />City and County of Broomfield and Douglas County. The District provides equipment (computers and <br />software), staff expertise, and funds that greatly enhance the ability of those local governments to prepare <br />first-rate floodplain mapping. <br /> <br />The seven counties in the District include two counties that are entirely within its jurisdiction (Broomfield <br />and Denver) and five counties that are partially within its jurisdiction (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, <br />Douglas, and Jefferson). CWCB staff has already proposed to UD&FCD staff that the District might <br />manage the preparation of DFIRMS for the entire county of those five counties, not just the portions <br />within the District. The UD&FCD staff expressed interest in serving that study manager function. The <br />District is an experienced CTP entity and the staff at the District already has a working relationship with <br />local floodplain managers for the five counties (in addition to Broomfield and Denver). Those factors put <br />Colorado in an enviable position of having a state agency that is a CTP and another entity that is a CTP, <br />both of which are interested in participating actively in the preparation of high quality floodplain mapping <br />that serves local, regional, state and federal needs. In fact, the District is already doing some of this work. <br />District staff and consultants have perhaps the greatest degree of experience in Colorado (and some of the <br />greatest degree of experience in the country) in doing precisely what the Map Modernization program <br />developed by FEMA calls for. <br /> <br />With District participation, the CWCB is confident that the first year Map Modernization effort in <br />Colorado will have a significantly greater chance of success. All of the counties in the District's <br />boundaries have high quality GIS and staff. Two counties are actively preparing new GIS floodplain <br />maps in cooperation with the District, before the Map Modernization effort has even begun. <br />Approximately half of the population of Colorado lives within the District's boundaries and would benefit <br />directly from this proposed partnership. In addition, if the District is willing to take on the management <br />function for the non-District portions of the five counties mentioned above, a very large part of the <br />management of Colorado Map Modernization effort could be undertaken by an entity other than CWCB. <br />That partnership would greatly enhance CWCB capabilities. <br /> <br />12/26/2002 <br /> <br />Page 28 of 38 <br />