FLOOD06922

• County: Rio Grande
• Community: Monte Vista
• Stream Name: Rio Grande River
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Title: Monte Vista Community File
• Date: 1/1/2001
• Prepared For: CWCB
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Community File

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Honorable Winn Mott
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Since the Flood Insurance Study establishing the 100-year base flood elevations
for your community has been completed, certain additional requirements must
be met under Section 1361 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as
amended. The community is required, as a condition of continued eligibility
in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), to adopt or show evidence
of adoption of flood plain management regulations that meet the standards
of Section 60.3 (c) of the enclosed Program regulations (44 CFR 59, etc.) within
six months of the date of this letter. These standards are the minimum require-
ments and do not supersede any state or local requirements of a more stringent
nature.

The Standards of Section 60.3 (c) which your community is required to meet
are explained in brief on the attachment accompanying this letter. It must
be emphasized that all of the standards specified in this section of the program
regulations must be enacted in a legally enforceable document. Some of these
standards should already have been enacted by your community in order to estab-
lish initial eligibility in the National Flood Insurance Program. Therefore,
compliance by your community with the additional flood plain management require-
ments may be accomplished in a number of ways. For example, your community
may:

(1) incorporate existing regulations by reference
in any new regulations adopted to meet
the additional requirements of Section
60.3 (c), or

(2) adopt all of the 60.3 (c) standards in one
new, comprehensive set of regulations,
or

(3) show evidence that regulations have previously
been adopted which meet or exceed the minimum
requirements of Section 60.3 (c).

Communities that fail to enact the necessary flood plain management regulations
will be suspended from participation in the program and subject to the prohibi-
tions contained in Section 202(a) of the 1973 Act as amended.

The effective date of your community's Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) also
marks the date that actuarial rates for flood insurance will be charged for
all new construction and substantial improvements to existing structures,
and these rates may be higher if construction is not built in compliance with
the flood plain management standards of the National Flood Insurance Program.