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WHEREAS, Lake County, Colorado has requested the Colorado Water Conservation Board to designate and approve the approximate floodplain infOlmation set forth in Table 2; and WHEREAS, Lake County, Colorado, has not requested the Colorado Water Conservation to rescind any of the detailed floodplain information contained in Resolution No. 188; and WHEREAS, Section 37-60-l06(1)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, requires the Colorado Water Conservation Board to assist in the prevention of floods and flood damages therefrom; and WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised Statutes, provide that legislative bodies of local jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations for land uses on or along any storm or floodwater runoff channel ot basin only after designation and approval by the Colorado Water Conservation Board; and WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(l)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes, directs the Colorado Water Conservation Board to designate and approve storm or floodwater runoff channels or basins and to make such designations available to legislative bodies oflocal jurisdictions; and WHEREAS, the information in said new report with included mapping for said stream reaches in Lake County, which have drainage areas greater than 4 square miles or less than 330 square miles, meets all of the requirements for approximate information listed under the Board's "Rules and Regulations for the Designation and Approval of Floodplains and of Storm or Floodwater Runoff Channels in Colorado" (2 CCR 408-1); and WHEREAS, Lake County has been notified that the streams that have drainage areas less than 4 square miles or greater than 330 square miles, lakes, ponds, and local drainage areas may be designated as approximate floodplain information without a procedure for estimating lOO-year peak flows, as long as the local government understands and agrees that a detailed hydrologic and hydraulic study is required prior to any floodplain development; and WHEREAS, Colorado Water Conservation Board has determined that the hydrologic methodology developed in the Guidelines for Determining ]{)()..Year Flood Flows for Approximate Floodplains is appropriate for designation and approval of approximate floodplain information and for use in simple floodplain analyses for development such as open space, agriculture, farm bridges, pole barns and wdividual single residential structures, but that the methodology is not appropriate for development involving residential subdivisions greater than 50 lots or occuning on sites greater than 5 acres, commercial construction, industrial construction, construction of public transportation facilities or construction of flood control activities; and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation Board in regular meeting assembled in Denver, Colorado, this 13th day of March, 1996, that it does 5 ..