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Section 30-28-111 C.R.S. for county governments and Section 1-23-301 C.R.S. for municipal governments of the Colorado Revised Statutes, states the cities, incorporated towns, and counties within the study area may provide zoning regulations ".. .to establ ish, regulate, restrict, and limit such uses on or along any storm or floodwater runoff channel or basin that has been designated and approved by the Colorado Water Conservation Board, in order to lessen or avoid the hazards to persons and damage to property resulting from the accumulation of storm or floodwaters. .." Therefore, upon official approval of this report by the Colorado Water Conservation Board, the areas described as being inundated by the 100-year flood can be designated as flood hazard areas and their use regulated accordingly by the I oca I governments. Flood plain management studies are carried out by the Soi I Conservation Service as an outgrowth of the recommendations in A Report by the Task Force on Federal Flood Control Po I i Icy, House Document No. 465 (89th Congress, August 10, 1966>, especially Recommendation 9(c), ReQulation of Land Use, which recommended the preparation of prel iminary reports for guidance in those areas where assistance is needed Defore a full flood plain information report can be prepared or where a ful I report is not scheduled. Authority for funding flood plain management studies is provided by Section 6 of Publ ic Law 83-566, which authorizes the U.S. Department of Agriculture to cooperate with other federal, state and local agencies to make investigations and surveys of the watersheds and rivers and other waterways as a basis for the development of coordinated programs. In carrying out flood plain management studies, the Soi I Conservation Service is being responsive to Executive Order 11988, entitled "Flood Plain Management", and Executive Order 11990, entitled "Protection of Wetlands" (both effective May 24, 1977>. 2