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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analysis of each of the regulatory, engineering and
flood insurance aspects of implementation. CAPEs
performed without investigating each of these elements
do not provide an adequate picture of community
participation. Information gathered during visits with
lenders and insurance agents can be used to validate
responses given at meetings with local officials.

7. The majority of States feel that both engineering and
planning staff should perform CAPEs together. For the
same reason as given in Finding #6, engineering
expertise is needed in many communities where CAPEs are
held. Elevation determinations, analyses of the
adequacy of floodproofing and channel modifications, the
need for map revisions and related issues require the
involvement of staff having engineering expertise.

RECOMMENDATION:

Lender and insurance agent visits should
be made a standard part of State CAPEs
and an engineer should assist in CAPE
performance.

8. There is wide variation from State to State and Region
to Region in CAPE procedures. Variations were found
among CAPE procedures in the following areas: (a) the