CO 2010 Drought Mitigation & Response Plan SOW

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role will be to coordinate with other consultants on information needs and timelines, as appropriate, and incorporate the updated risk assessment into the plan. It is also assumed that the consultant chosen for this task will present the results of the updated risk assessment to the planning team, along with recommendations for new mitigation actions that become evident during this process. Thus the majority of AMEC's effort associated with this task will be updating the hazard profile in the plan. This will include a general assessment of the potential implications of climate change on drought in Colorado, based primarily on a review of the Governor's Colorado Climate Action Plan' and the CWCB report Climate Change in Colorado, as well as literature utilized to develop these documents. Key drought concepts in these documents will be translated into the Drought Plan so that they are accessible. 3.5.2 Provide a general overview of climate in Colorado, including temperature, precipitation, evapotranspiration etc. 3.5.3 Review of historical droughts including impacts from recent droughts relating to disaster response and how existing state and local planning resources tools were used or not used. Hazard Profile Update: AMEC will update the drought hazard profile in accordance to FEMA mitigation planning guidelines. The FEMA hazard profile requirements include a description of the nature of drought in Colorado, an updated history of previous impacts, an updated probability of future occurrences, and a qualitative description of the magnitude and severity of the hazard's impacts to the State. AMEC will update the hazard profile with an overview of the general climate and drought hazard in Colorado. The overview will place emphasis on any new information that have emerged in the past decade, including maps and reports that highlight details of the spatial and temporal variability of climate across the state, particularly the critical parameters of temperature, precipitation, and evapotranspiration. This section of the plan will provide an important baseline for the update of state and local drought mitigation and response plans. Since the last update of the Colorado Drought Mitigation and Response Plan, the state has been paying increased attention to climate change projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and has developed a Climate Action Plan for adapting to climate change which includes the need to investigate vulnerabilities of the state's water supplies to climate change and to plan for severe drought (as well as other risks) resulting from climate change. In 2008, the state held a conference to assist water providers, planners, managers, and agency and local government officials assess drought risk, impacts, and preparedness in Colorado, and the improvements that will be needed for management under different conditions such as climate change. The outcomes from this meeting, as well as requirements laid out in the Climate Action Plan, will be integrated by AMEC into the Drought Mitigation and Response Plan. The result will be a descriptive overview of how climate change may affect the intensity and frequency of droughts in the future. In addition to the synthesis report previously mentioned, AMEC will review and integrate, as appropriate, results and specific drought related information from recent studies such as the Colorado River Water Availability project (CRWAS) and Joint Front Range Climate Change Vulnerability (JFRCCVS) project. AMEC personnel have first amec* 7