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e . e WHEREAS, said report contains detailed hydrology and floodplain delineations for Woman Creek, Walnut Creek, Upper Big Dry Creek, and Rock Creek within the Rocky Flats Plant in Jefferson County, as they were at the time of the study; and FLOODPLAIN CONSISTENCY WHEREAS, the floodplain information contained in said report is the most current information available for the federal land owned by the U.S. Department of Energy and known as the Rocky Flats Plant; and WHEREAS, the floodplain information contained in said report dated April 1992 should be utilized by the Rocky Flats Plant for floodplain management and master planning purposes; and eR.S, AUTHORITY WHEREAS, Section 37-60-I06(l)(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 or 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 of local jurisdictions; and COMPLIANCE WITH CWCB TECHNICAL STANDARDS WHEREAS, the detailed hydrologic and hydraulic information for said streams was completed by Wright Water Engineers, Inc. and is consistent with the requirements for detailed hydrologic and hydraulic 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, the Colorado Water Conservation Board reviewed said report, prior to its final publication, and supported the methodologies and study findings as described in a letter dated August 7, 1991 from Mr. Larry Lang to Mr, Kenneth Wright; and DESIGNATION AND APPROVAL ACTION NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation Board in regular meeting assembled in Salida, Colorado, this 27th day of September 1999, that it does hereby designate and approve as detailed information the storm or floodwater runoff channels and basins within the Rocky Flats Plant described by 100-year floodplain delineations in said report dated April 1992; and 2