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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support any findings and recommendations made in the Final
Report. You should review it now to become familiar with its
contents. Adequate documentation of the CAPE is crucial.
This information adds to our data base on local activities,
allowing us to assess local progress in floodplain management
over time and provides a basis for the long-term evaluation
of the effects of the NFIP. It also gives the specifics
needed to formulate a plan of action where there is the need
for technical assistance, map updates or improved compliance.

Part A of the documentation checklist gives general
information that you should keep in mind for use in
documenting any aspect of the CAPE. Parts Band C give
specific information on how to document (al potential
violations, or sites to be checked during the community's
permit file review and (b) actions that could potentially
affect map accuracy. Site-specific information may be
recorded using the sample form in Attachment A, or on page 6
of the CRF. Separate documents supporting the CAPE results
should be attached to the CRF for filing upon completion of
the CAPE. Copies of documents needed to support the Final
Report's findings and recommendations should be attached to
the Report.

D. Begin Compiling Lists of Sites and Issues: During the
subsequent steps in preparation, you will be identifying
sites that should be visited during the floodplain tour and
issues that will need to be pursued in your telephone calls
and meetings with local officials, lenders and insurance
agents. These should be recorded on page 4 of the CRF. Two
types of sites should be listed: those where you'll be
checking on regulation of new development and those where
you'll be checking for map accuracy. To make locating them
easier in the field, mark the sites on the flood insurance
maps or other maps, or on available air photos.

E. Familiarize Yourself with The Community: If you have
little first-hand knowledge of the selected community, this
step can be the most crucial in CAPE preparation. It can be
significantly abbreviated if you are familiar with the
current situation in the community.

Reviewers can best familiarize themselves with a new
community by using suitable aerial photography in conjunction
with the flood insurance map and available detailed studies.
Air photos can provide information not shown on our maps
about topography, land use pattern, type and extent of
encroachments, new and ongoing development, indications of
future development, potential problem areas and many other
issues. (See Appendix B for a guide to using aerial
photography in CAPEs.)