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'" Federal Emergency Management Agency Washington, D,C, 20472 JUN 04 1985 CERTIFIED MAIL RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED Honorable Howard Williams Chairman, Ouray County Commissioners 541 4th Street Ouray, Colorado 81427 Dear Mr. Williams: The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) regulations (copy enclosed) require participating communities to adopt certain flood plain management measures. Please consider this an official notice that your community has until July 3, 1985, to adopt flood plain management measures which satisfy the requirements of section 60.3(d) of the regulations and have them approved by our Regional Office. Your community will be suspended from the NFIP effective that date unless these measures are received and approved by then. This will be your final notice of suspension. I realize that your community may be in the final adoption process, or you may have recently adopted the required measures. These measures, which should be submitted to the Chief, Natural and Technological Hazards Division of the Federal Emergency Management Ag,~ncy, Building 710, Denver Federal Center, Box 25267, Denver, Colorado 80225-0267 will be reviewed upon receipt. Our Regional Office staff will inform you of your community's continued eligibility if your measures are approved, or will a,ssist your community if they find your measures to be deficient. As in previous correspondence, we urge you to contact our Regional Office if your community is encountering difficulties in enacting the required measures. Our Regional Office can be reached at (303) 235-4830. It should be emphasized that flood insurance may not be sold or renewed within suspended communities. In addition, such communities are subject to the provi- sions of Section 202(a) of Public Law 93-234, as amended. This Section prohibits Federal officers or agencies from approving any form of loan, grant, guaranty, insurance, payment, rebate, subsidy, disaster assistance loan or grant (in connection with a flood), or any other form of direct Federal assistance, other than general or special revenue sharing or formula grants made to States, for acquisition or construction purposes within your community's special flood hazard areas. Included in this prohibition, for example, is the making of mortgage loans guaranteE!d by the Veterans Administration or insured by the Federal Housing Administration. Approval of mortgage loans, secured by homes or farm buildings, by the Farmers Home Administration is similarly proscribed.