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<br />_0 <br /> <br />designation and approval program. There are, however, some procedural questions to be <br />considered in discussing the CTC concept. . <br /> <br />DISCUSSION: <br /> <br />Questions that have arisen concerning the CTC proposal and its relationship to the CWCB are: <br /> <br />I. What work would Urban Drainage perform under the CTC agreement? <br /> <br />Urban Drainage would prepare, through its own staff resources or, more likely, by hiring local <br />consultants, draft Flood Insurance Studies or major components of these studies. FEMA would <br />"perform limited technical review" of these studies before finalization. <br /> <br />Urban Drainage would also "coordinate" Letters of Map Change, known as LOMCs (LOMRs, <br />CLOMRs, etc.), including review of technical materials, coordination with local govemments <br />within Urban Drainage and the provision of a letter to FEMA stating Urban Drainage's approval <br />of the proposed LOMC. Again FEMA would "perform limited technical review" of these <br />submittals. <br /> <br />2. If there is no additionalfederalfunding, how will CTC be implemented? <br /> <br />The CTC is not intended by FEMA to provide communities only with financial incentives. <br />Local control of local maps is another incentive. If no additional funding is available (which is-. <br />the case right now), FEMA could not pay Urban Drainage to perform floodplain mapping. In <br />that case, it is possible that Urban Drainage would only perform floodplain mapping for stream <br />reaches which it was studying anyway for its own floodplain management purposes. However, <br />Urban Drainage might see a benefit in updating its local maps and, therefore, prepare some of <br />them at its own cost to make them more representative of current conditions. It is possible that <br />Urban Drainage might absorb the additional cost of the existing conditions mapping that FEMA <br />requires besides the future conditions mapping that Urban Drainage already performs. <br /> <br />There are preliminary indications that FEMA is considering making a portion of the money that <br />it already spends on mapping performed by various study contractors available specifically for <br />CTC contractors, as study needs within each FEMA region require. It is possible that as early as <br />Federal FY 2000 (beginning October I, 1999) some predetermined percentage of the mapping <br />budget for FEMA Region VIII would be set aside for CTC studies. If that actually happens, <br />there would likely be a significant incentive for other communities besides Urban Drainage to <br />consider becoming CTC's. <br /> <br />3. Since Urban Drainage prepares future conditions studies and FEMA requires existing <br />conditions studies, how will the differences be resolved? <br /> <br />FEMA's MMP already includes a task involving exploring possible means of including future <br />conditions floodplain information on FEMA maps. FEMA and Urban Drainage have had <br />discussions about ways to accomplish this. Since Urban Drainage maps future conditions <br />floodplains, they and FEMA will negotiate technical procedures for mapping both floodplains on <br />the same maps. Urban Drainage and FEMA will also negotiate specific technical procedures for <br /> <br />. <br />