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rNJ;;)IN F, STAPLETON f Chairman, D~nver FREDERICK V, KROEGER Vice-C..bairman, Durango . . FELIX l. SPARKS Director LAREN D. MORRI LL Deputy Director ti- HN H. BROWNELL Doper <( N R, FETCHER Steamboat Springs RICHARD D. lAMM Gov~rnor C. M. FURNEAUX Walden PATRICK A, GORMLEY Grand Junction DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD ROBERT A. JACKSON Pueblo . B23 STATE CENTENNIAL BUILDING 1313 SHERMAN STREET DENVER. COLORADO 80203 HERBERT H. VANDEMOER Sterling March 15, 1978 - TE.lEPHONE. (303) 83\+-3".' DAVID LEINSDORF Crested Butte Mr. Jerome Olson Regional Director Federal Insurance Administration 909-17th street Denver, Colorado 80202 ", Dear Mr. Olson: . The Colorado Water Conservation Board has recently received a number of flood insurance studies for the Denver area and other areas throughout the state, prepared by consultants to the Federal Insurance Administration. A number of these studies have contained significant errors or have not been compatible with previous studies designated by this board. These errors and discrepancies have occurred despite the statement in the r'eports (Sec. 6.0) that the FIA studies have been coordinated with, and are compatible with, previous studies. with numerous flood insurance studies being prepared throughout Colorado, the Water Conservation Board staff cannot check the accuracy nor the compatibility of FIA studies with previously designated studies. Because the designation of the lOO-year water surface elevations and profiles, or the redesignation of revised studies, is a legal requirement in Colorado before a local government can legally enforce floodplain regulations, designation of incorrect elevations and profiles, or the lack of designation of revised studies, may cause serious legal prOblems. Designation of floodplain information studies prepared or sponsored by the Colorado Water Conservation Board is generally based on a request by the local government for whom the study is prepared. To avoid potential legal problems with the designation of flood insurance studies, the Colorado Water Conservation Board will require that, in addition to the request for designation from the local government, the Federal Insurance Administration formally request the designation, or redesignation of all future flood insur- ance studies. The request shall include only the title of the flood ,.insurance study for new studies.