FLOOD04440

• County: Statewide
• Community: All
• Stream Name: All
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Colorado Flood Map Modernization Business Case Plan - March 2004
• Date: 3/1/2004
• Prepared For: FEMA
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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SECTIINTHREE

Program Plan

3.1 PROGRAM PLAN - OBJECTIVES

In keeping with the Program Vision described in Section Two, the State of Colorado's Business
Case Plan endorses the following objectives.

· Perform a 2-phased statewide needs assessment on a yearly basis in order to determine
the upcoming year's restudy and map update priorities. The first phase of this needs
assessment process will be quantitative and will identify the top 25 percent of counties
eligible for funding. (For FY '08 the top 50% of counties will be identified.) The second
phase will be a qualitative analysis of only those counties within the top 25 percent (the
top 50% for FY '08).

· Conduct pre-scoping community outreach activities, with the culmination being Initial
Coordination Meetings. Counties being considered for possible floodplain studies and
map updates, including municipalities in those counties, will be visited for two purposes.
The first purpose will be to provide them with information about the work involved in
preparing floodplain studies in their communities. The second purpose will be to
determine preliminarily the local mapping needs, the available resources for map updates,
and the general readiness of local officials to play their part in the preparation of a
countywide DFIRM study.

. Perform Scoping Meetings in coordination with FEMA, the engineering consultants, and
impacted communities within each county that is to be studied, once pre-scoping
activities have adequately prepared all involved parties. The process will conclude with
the completion of a Scope of Work for each county that is being mapped.

. Work with the engineering consultants and local officials to produce maps that meet
FEMA's technical and graphical requirements within the agreed upon timeframe, while
simultaneously utilizing local resources and meeting local needs.

. Establish and manage an Internet-enabled distribution system that will allow users to both
view and access the digital data used to produce the Digital FIRM. Ultimately this
system should support the submittal of new data to be reviewed and considered for future
map upates and revisions, including the processing of LOMRs.

In addition to the yearly production goals mentioned above, the CWCB seeks to achieve the
following long-term goals as Map Modernization progresses.

. Assume responsibility for ongoing, periodic maintenance of Colorado DFIRMs.

. Continue and enhance outreach to the public and communities (counties and
municipalities ).

. Update the Business Case Plan on a yearly basis.

. Produce data in a consistent statewide format (NA VD 88, NAD 83, UTM) that can be
used to produce a statewide base map and scoping tool to facilitate flood hazard mapping
in the future.

. Produce and publish multi-hazard data (primarily flood hazards and debris flows) in
support of FEMA's multi-hazard objective. This includes the creation and maintenance
of a statewide GIS environment that will support and encourage mapping of other hazard

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