FLOOD06834

• County: Statewide
• Community: State of Colorado
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: State Non-federal Dam Safety Programs-1985
• Date: 12/1/1985
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

Sample survey questionnaires, with supporting transmittal letters, are

attached as Appendix A of this report.

A list of state officials, who

responded to the questionnaires is included in Appendix 8.

IV. Studv Results

This section summarizes the state responses to the first survey

questionnaire about state programs and issues.

The results of the survey are presented and summarized here according to

the major objectives discussed in Chapter III:

A. COMPARISON OF STATE DAM SAFETY AUTHORITIES, RESOURCES, AND ISSUES

1. Inventorv of Statutorv Functions Performed Under Current Dam Safetv
Program

In 1970, the United States Committee on Large Dams (USCOLD) prepared, as

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a public service for consideration of the state governors and legislatures,

a Model Law for State Supervision of Safety of Dams and Reservoirs. 4 This

model has already served as a template for improving and developing non-

Federal dam legislation in several states. The Corps of Engineers, in its

report transmitted to Congress in November 1976, included recommendations

for a comprehensive national dam safety program based upon the provisions of

the USCOLD Model Law. The model was recommended as a basis for formulating

state dam safety legislation and regulatory procedures, The importance of

the USCOLD Model Law was reinforced in the 1982 National Academy of Science

Committee on Safety of Non-Federal Dams report to FEMA. One of the major

recommendations of the report called upon the U.S, government, through FEMA,

to encourage states to "Assume and competently discharge their rightful

supervisory responsibilities by promoting state legislation comparable to

the USCOLD Model Law.,.." 1 In brief, the Model Law provides that states

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