BOARD02135

• Board Meeting Date: 11/25/2002
• Description: CF Section - En-Bloc Non-Reimbursable Investments Floodplain Mapping Program: Colorado Map Modernization Implementation Program
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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maps, local hydrologic studies). Although the specific funding level for Colorado will only be known
once Congress and the President have completed the budget process, it is expected that Colorado might
see $3 million - $5 million per year in funding for Map Modernization activities.

Discussion

FEMA will fund 75% of the cost of carrying out their Map Modernization Implementation Plan (MMIP).
That means that 25% of the cost must be provided by local and state government. President Bush has
proposed annual federal funding of$351 million nationwide. CWCB staff estimates Colorado's share of the
federal funds will be $3 million - $5 million per year. The state/local share would need to be $1 million to
$1.67 million. CWCB staff has assumed that half of that state/local share (12.5%) should be provided by the
State of Colorado through the CWCB and half of that share (12.5%) should be provided by participating local
governments. The state match for that level offederal funds would be $500,000 to $833,333. We are asking
for the minimum level of funding within that estimated range.

Federal fiscal year 2003 (FY '03) will be the first year ofFEMA's MMIP program. Prior to that first year's
mapping work, it was clear to FEMA and to the states that some kind ofMMIP planning was needed for each
state. In response to that need, FEMA made funding available to assist states in the preparation of plans for
addressing their statewide mapping needs. Colorado received a $50,000 planning grant from FEMA for that
purpose. Using that grant to retain engineering consultants, CWCB completed its report for Colorado's
MMIP during the summer of 2002. That report identifies mapping update needs throughout Colorado and
estimated their cost. In addition, the report prioritizes the mapping updated needs of the 64 counties in
Colorado (including the municipalities within each county). Because FEMA plans on maps being prepared
countywide, in any given county one set of maps will address both the uninco1]Jorated areas of the county and
the municipalities. It is expected that when MMIP activities begin, each county will represent a separate
mapping contract.

Four priority groups, each including 16 ofthe 64 counties, were listed in the report. CWCB staff proposes to
begin work on 5 tolO of the 1st priority counties in FY '03, with assistance from the Urban Drainage & Flood
Control District for counties in the 7-county Denver metro area. (The exact number of counties studied will
depend on the FEMA funding level for Colorado.) The requested funds from the Construction Fund will be
used to match FEMA funding for floodplain mapping improvements in the counties selected by CWCB and
Urban Drainage for FY '03.

The table below summarizes by county the first group of top priority communities in Colorado, The table
also shows the preliminary estimates of floodplain mapping costs for those counties and the municipalities
within them, as included in the Colorado MMIP report.

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

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