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. . . LOCAL REOUEST FOR DESIGNATION WHEREAS, staff members from the cwCB and from Montgomery Watson transmitted letters and telephoned local officials in Boulder County :rnd incorporated communities within Boulder County (Boulder, Jamestown, Lafayette, Longmont, Louisville, Lyons, Nederland, and Superior) regarding the CWCB's floodplain designation and approval process; and ". ." WHEREAS, staff members from the CWCB and Montgomery Watson met with Town of Lafayette regarding floodplain management activities and the CWCB's designation and approval process for floodplain information, and the Town concurred with the proposed designation action and agreed to transmit a letter to the CWCB staff requesting designation by the Board; and WHEREAS, the community of Louisville requested a meeting with CWCB staff to discuss floodplain management activities and the CWC)3's designation and approval process for floodplain information, but a meeting has not yet taken place as of the date of this resolution; and WHEREAS, Boulder County and the incorporated communities of Boulder, Longmont, Lyons, Nederland, and Superior did not request a meetin~ with CWCB and Montgomery Watson staff and did not reject the CWCB's proposed designation action; and c.R.S. AUTHORITY 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 or basin only after designation and approval by the Colorado Water Conservation Board; and WHEREAS, Section 37-60-l06(1)(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 COMPLIANCE WITH CWCR TECHNICAL STANDARDS WHEREAS, the detailed floodplain information, as listed in Table I, in said new Floodplain Information Report and Hydrology Addendum with included maps, meets all of the requirements 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 approximate riverine floodplain information, as listed in Table 2, in said new Floodplain Information Report and Hydrology Addendum with included maps meets all of the 5