BOARD01545

• Board Meeting Date: 7/23/2002
• Description: Fema Map Modernization Implementation Plan Update
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Floodplain Map Modernization for Colorado
COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
July 23, 2002

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), by letter dated April 17,
2002, indicated a strong possibility for a significant increase in federal funding for floodplain mapping
activities in Colorado and all other states; and

WHEREAS, President Bush in his proposed budget for FY '03 has identified $351 million for a
floodplain mapping budget, which is a $300 million increase over previous years' funding amounts; and

WHEREAS, FEMA has requested each state to assist in the preparation of a statewide Map
Modemization Implementation (MMIP) to ensure that floodplain mapping needs, costs, and priorities are
appropriately identified; and

WHEREAS, the CWCB is currently utilizing a $50,000 grant from FEMA for preparation
of Colorado's MMIP, and has contracted with the consulting team of Moser Associates and
PBS&J to assist CWCB staffwith completion of the plan; and

WHEREAS, Colorado's MMIP is scheduled to be finalized by September 15, 2002 for
incorporation into regional and nationwide plans by FEMA in preparation for expenditure of the proposed
federal funding.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation Board in a regular
meeting assembled in Pueblo, Colorado this 23rd day of July 2002, that it does hereby respond to more
than 100 community requests throughout Colorado to endorse the concepts of the Colorado Map
Modemization Implementation Plan that will identify floodplain mapping needs and estimated costs, and that
will rank by community and by county, the floodplain mapping priorities for Colorado; and
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. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Colorado Wate Conservation Board does hereby endorse)..
President Bush's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2003 . $351 million for FEMA to conduct
floodplain mapping activities nationwide, of which a reasona~le and equitable portion would be earmarked
for the State of Colorado providing that State and local matching requirements are met, and that the United
States Congress should be urged to support the President's budget in that regard.

Rod Kuharich, CWCB Director

CERTIFICATE

I certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution
members of the Colorado Water Conservation Board in a regular meet'
the 23rd day of July 2002.

opted by a majority vote of the
assembled at Pueblo, Colorado on

Flood Protection. Water Project Planning and Financing. Stream and Lake Protection
Water Supply Protection. Conservation Planning

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