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<br />FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY <br /> <br />1.0 INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />1.1 Purpose of Study <br /> <br />This Flood Insurance Study investigates the existence and severity <br />of flood hazards in the Town of Palisade, Mesa County, Colorado, <br />and aids in the administration of the National Flood Insurance <br />Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973. This <br />study will be used to convert the Town of Palisade to the regular <br />program of flood insurance by the Federal Emergency Management <br />Agency (FEMA). Local and regional planners will use this study <br />in their efforts to promote sound flood plain management. <br /> <br />This Flood Insurance Study was prepared by compiling existing <br />hydrologic and hydraulic technical and scientific data prepared <br />by other organization(s) originally for purposes other than the <br />National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The data were identified <br />as the best available at the time of compilation of this Flood <br />Insurance Study and should depict the general conditions of the <br />flooding sources with relative accuracy. FEMA performed a cursory <br />review and accepted the data as valid for purposes of this Flood <br />Insurance Study and the NFIP. However, if better information <br />is known to exist or has been developed since the date of this <br />report, the information should be ~ediately forwarded to the <br />address below for consideration for revision of this study. <br /> <br />Natural and TechnOlogical Hazards Division, FEMA, Building <br />710, Denver Federal Center, Lakewood, Colorado 8022S. <br /> <br />In some states or communities, flood plain management criteria <br />or regulations may exist that are more restrictive or comprehensive <br />than those on which this federally supported study is based. <br />These criteria take precedence over the minimum Federal criteria <br />for purposes of regulating development in the flood plain, as <br />set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations at 44 CPR, 60.3(c). <br />In such cases, however, it shall be understood that the State <br />(or other jurisdictional agency) shall be able to explain these <br />requirements and criteria. <br /> <br />1.2 Authority and ACknOWledgments <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />The sources of authority for this Flood Insurance Study are the <br />National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protec- <br />tion Act of 1973. <br />