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2 The modifications are effective as of th~ date shown above. The map panel listed above and as modified by this letter will be used for all flood insurance policies and renewals issued for your community. A review of the determination made by this LOMR and any requests to alter this determination should be made within 30 days. Any request to alter the determination must be based on scientific or technical data. We are preparing a revised FIRM and FIS report for Jefferson County in our countywide format; therefore, we will not physically revise and republish the FIRM and FIS report for your community to incorporate the modifications made by this LOMR at this time. Revised Preliminary copies of the countywide FIRM and FIS repbrt, which will present information from the effective FIRMs and FIS reports for your community and incorporated communities in Jefferson County, were submitted to your community for review on November 29, 2000. Flood hazard information from effective FIRM Panel 0160 B, the panel revised by this LOMR, is shown on Revised Preliminary FIRM Panel 08059CO 183 E for Jefferson County, Colorado and Incorporated Areas. Updated road base information for your community has been incorporated into the Revised Preliminary FIRM. For display purposes, this updated road base and corporate limits information also is shown on the enclosed annotated copy of FIRM Panel 0160 B. This panel is shown at a scale of 1 inch to 500 feet, to be consistent with the Revised Preliminary FIRM Panel 080S9C0183 E for Jefferson County, Colorado and Incorporated Areas. We will incorporate the modifications made by this LOMR into the countywide FIRM and FIS report before they become effective. This LOMR is based on minimum floodplain management criteria established under the NFIP. Your community is responsible for approving all floodplain development and for ensuring all necessary permits required by Federal or State law have been received. State, county, and community officials, based on knowledge of local conditions and in the interest of safety, may set higher standards for construction in the SFHA. If the State, county, or community has adopted more restrictive or comprehensive floodplain management criteria, these criteria take precedence over the minimum NFIP criteria. The basis of this LOMR is, in whole or in part, a channel-modification project. NFIP regulations, as cited in Paragraph 60.3(b)(7), require that communities ensure that the flood-carrying capacity within the altered or relocated portion of any watercourse is maintained. This provision is incorporated into your community's existing floodplain management regulations. Consequently, the ultimate responsibility for maintenance of the modified channel rests with your community. Because this LOMR will not be printed and distributed to primary users, such as local insurance agents and mortgage lenders, your community will serve as a repository for these new data. We encourage you to disseminate the information reflected by this LOMR throughout the community, so that interested persons, such as property owners, local insurance agents, and mortgage lenders, may benefit from the information. We also encourage you to prepare a related article for publication in your community's local newspaper. This article should describe the changes that have been made and the assistance that officials of your community will give to interested persons by providing these data and interpreting the NFIP maps. This determination has been made pursuant to Section 206 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 (Public Law 93-234) and is in accordance with the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended (Title XIII ofthe Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Public Law 90-448), 42 U.S.C. 4001-4128, and 44 CFR Part 65. Pursuant to Section 1361 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended, communities participating in the NFIP are required to adopt and enforce floodplain management regulations that meet or exceed minimum NFIP criteria. These criteria are the minimum and do not supersede any State or local requirements of a more stringent nature. This includes adoption of the effective FIRM to which the regulations apply and the modifications described in this LOMR. Our records show that your community has met this requirement.