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5.4 Flood Insurance Rate Map Description The Flood Insurance Rate Map for the City of Aspen is, for insurance purposes, the principal product of the Flood Insurance Study. This map contains the official delineation of flood insurance zoneS and base flood elevations. Base flood elevation lines show the loca- tions of the expected whole-foot water-surface elevation of the base (lOa-year) flood. The base flood elevations and zone numbers are used by insurance agents, in conjunction with structure eleva- tions and characteristics, to assign actuarial insurance rates to structures and contents insured under the NFIP. 6.0 OTHER STUDIES Because a more detailed analysis was used for this Flood Insurance Study, it supersedes the previously printed Flood Hazard Boundary Map for Aspen (Reference 10). A study entitled Floodplain Information, Aspen, Colorado, by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was completed in 1973 (Reference 3). Also, Flood- plain Information Report, Roaring Fork River, Aspen to Basalt, Pitkin County, Colorado, by Wright-McLaughlin Engineers, was completed in 1976 (Reference 8). Because more detailed mapping and updated hydrology was used, this Flood Insurance Study supersedes these previous studies. A Flood Insurance Study is being of Pitkin County (Reference 9). that study are in agreement with Study. prepared for the unincorporated areas Information and analyses determined for the results of this Flood Insurance 7.0 LOCATION OF DATA Information concerning the pertinent data used in the preparation of this study can be obtained by contacting the Natural and Technological Hazards Division, FEMA, Building 710, Denver Federal Center, Lakewood, Colorado 80225. 8.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES 1. Elizabeth A. Forrester, Pitkin County Almanac, 1981 2. U.S. Department of Commerce, Climatological Data, Annual Summary, Colorado, 1977 3. U.S. Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, FlOOdplain Informa- tion, Aspen, Colorado, Sacramento District, 1973 15