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WHEREAS, Sections 31-23-301 and 30-28-111, Colorado Revised Statutes 1973, provide that such legislative bodies of local jurisdictions may provide zoning regulations for land uses on or along any storm or floodwater runoff channel or basin only after designation and approval by the Colorado Water Conservation Board; and WHEREAS, Section 37-60-106(1)(c), Colorado Revised Statutes 1973, directs the Colorado Water Conservation Board to designate and approve storm or floodwatel;' runoff channels or basins and to make such designations available to legislative bodies of local jurisdictions: and WHEREAS, the staff of th'i! Board has reviewed said revised information and data and does hereby recommend to the Colorado Water Conservation Board that the Board designate and approve as floodplain areas those areas inundated by a 100-year flood (intermediate regional flood) as described by the floodwater surface elevations and profiles in said new report, and further recommends that the floodplatn designations for the Colorado River, Leach Creek, and the Horizon Drive Channel within the corporate limits of the City of Grand Junction on July 6, 1982, as approved by resolution No. 79, adopted September 23, 1977, be rescinded; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conser- vation Board in reg ular meeti.ng assembled in Denver, Colorado, this 7th day of January, 1983, that it does hereby designate and approve as floodplain areas those areas described as being inundated by a 100-year flood as described by the floodwater surface elevations and profiles in said new report, dated July 6, 1982, and does hereby rescind those said portions of resolution Nos. 25 and 79, dated October 31, 1973, and September 23, 1977, respectively: and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Board is directed to send a certified ~opy of this resolution to the City of Grand Junction: the Board of County Commissioners of Mesa County; the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District; and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. CERTIFICATE I certify that the foregOing is a true and correct copy of a resolution adopted by a majority vote of the members of the Colorado Water Conservation Board in regular session assembled at Denver, Colorado, on the 7th day of January, 1983, at which a quorum was present.