FLOOD04694

• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: The Region VIII Cape Study - A Guide for Staff Performing Community Assistance and Performance Evaluation Visits
• Date: 9/1/1984
• Prepared For: Region VIII
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Historic FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

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FEMA/STATE COORDINATION OF CAPEs IN FISCAL YEAR 85

The goal of this effort is to establish the long-term capability
for States to include CAPE performance among their growing range
of floodplain management activities. These guidelines and the
attached CAPE Reviewer's Guide and Form have been prepared to
assist, in meeting this goal.

FEMA CAPE COORDINATOR

During FY-84, FEMA and the States worked together to prepare
these guidelines. Mark Matulik from Colorado and Mary Lou
Soscia from Wyoming worked with Tim Maywalt of FEMA to develop
them. They are based on the results of a survey of the most
effective techniques used by FEMA's Regional Offices and many
States that have been performing CAPEs since the 1970s. Because
of this background, Mr. Maywalt has been assigned the
coordination role in this year's CAPE program. The CAPE
Coordinator's responsibilities include providing training on
CAPE performance, attendance at initial State CAPEs, revieWing
and transmitting State work products to FEMA Central Office,
responding to inquiries and requests for assistance, assisting
in the selection of CAPE follow-up strategies, especially where
enforcement problems are identified, and evaluating the FY 85
program upon its completion. We encourage the states to seek
the assistance of Mr. Maywalt as questions arise during this
first-year effort. Because of their unique perspectives as
State representatives, we also encourage you to work closely
with Mr. Matulik and Ms. Soscia over the coming year.

COMMUNITY SELECTION

FEMA will identify CAPE communities using two sources of
information: first, numerical and other data describing the
community's hazards, its development and its loss potential
(number of flood insurance policies in force and claims,
population in the entire community and its floodplain,
population change from 1970-1980, numbers of structures in the
floodplain, permits and variances, and CAPE historyl; second,
information from state and other sources identifying specific
issues that suggest the need for a CAPE (reported compliance
issues, significant development pressure or map inadequacies,
request for reinstatement of a suspended community, etc.). A
mutually acceptable final list will be compiled by early
October.

TRAINING

Two forms of training will be provided to familiarize State
representatives with the CAPE process. First, a training
session will be held on October 25 in Boulder, Colorado. The
attached CAPE Reviewer's Guide will be the primary training