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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Executive Summal1

Performance Goals

FEMA has established performance goals attached to Map Modernization funding. These goals
can only be achieved if adequate funding is provided by FEMA and sufficient commitment and
capabilities come from State and the local levels. The CWCB is committed to helping FEMA
achieve these objectives, provided that Map Modernization in Colorado is adequately funded.
This Plan demonstrates that achieving the FEMA performance targets will require a substantial
increase in funding compared to current levels, even at the lowest level described in this report.

Percentage of State population (as represented by 20 50 65 75 85 100
communities) have on-line digital GIS flood hazard data
Percentage of State population (as represented by 10 20 35 50 70 90
communities) have adopted modernized GIS flood maps
Percent of dollars leveraged effort toward digital GIS flood 20 20 20 20 20 20
hazard data
Percentage of Map Modernization (appropriated) funding put 20 25 35 45 50 60
through to CTPs (States and locals)

Funding: Options and Schedule

Three (3) funding levels and a projected program schedule are included in Section Five of this
document. Per FEMA's request, funding levels of Full, Medium, and Low are included in this
Business Plan. In addition to summarizing the work that can be accomplished for Full, Medium,
and Low levels of funding, these funding levels are compared to the current level of Map
Modernization funding Colorado is receiving for floodplain mapping, projected through 2008.
The program schedule that has been included accommodates the three different fiscal calendars
that are impacted by a DFIRM revision; Federal (October - September), State (July - June), and
Local (January - December). It is important to plan for these three fiscal calendars, because
governmental decisions about budgets are made at completely different times of the year by the
different levels of government. The funding options mentioned above are included in detail in
Section Five, and a summary of the results of this analysis, is included below. Additionally, the
figure below depicts graphically a comparison of the Medium, Low, and Current Funding levels
(projected through 2008) to the Full Funding option.

Colorado Business Case Plan - March 2004

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