FLOOD01105

• County: Mesa
• Community: Grand Junction
• Stream Name: Colorado River
• Title: Grand Junction Community File
• Date: 1/1/2001
• Prepared For: CWCB
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Community File

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- Mr. Howard Roland
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since the Flood Insurance Study establishing the 100-year base flood
elevations for your community has been completed, certain additional
requirements must be met under Section 1361 of the National Flood
_J~~urance Act of 1968, as amended. The community is required, as a
:~ondition of continued eligibility in the National Flood Insurance
'-Program (NFIP),- to adopt or show evidence of adoption of flood plain
_management regulations that meet the standards of Section 1910.3 (d)
of the enclosed Program regulations (24 CPR 1909, etc.) within six
months of the date of this letter. These standards are the minimum
_ requirements and do not supersede any state or local requirements of a
_ 'mor.e stringent nature.. ____ ____

_ The Standards of Section 1910.3 (d) which your community is required to
'meet are explained in brief on the attachment accompanying this letter.
"It'must be emphasized that all of the standards specified in this
. section of the program regulations must be enacted in a legally enforceable
-document. Some of these standards should already have been enacted by
..your community in order to establish initial eligiblity in the National
;rlood Insurance Program. Therefore, compliance by your community with
~the additional flood plain management requirements may be accomplished
_in a number of ways. For example, your community may:
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incorpOrate exIsting regulations by
any-new- regulations adopted to meet
requirements 9~~S=ction 1910.3 (d),

reference in
the additional
or

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_...... (2) adopt all of the_19l0.3 -(d) standards in one
__ -=!iew,dcomprehensive- set of regulations, or

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.:.c:...:.:.:c--(3f . show-evidence that reguL3.tions have previously
. 0 __..~: - - ,l>E!en: a,g,opted which_ meet: or exceed the minimum
. '0' cO'_ _ _ "_:.~_equire1llent_s of Sectio!,_ 1910: 3 (d).

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_Communities that fail to enact-the-necessary flood plain management
~regulations will be suspended from participation in the program and
,subject to ~he prohibitions. contained in Section 202(a) of the 1973
".as amended. ___ __

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--The effective date of your community's Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)
o.~lso marks the date that actuarial rates for flood insurance will be
:~harged for all new construction and substantial improvements to existing
: structures, and these rates may be--higher if construction is not built
, ,in compliance with the flood pl~i~ management standards of the National
~Flood Insurance Program. As. you may know, the actuarial flood insurance

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