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<br />Colorado Flood Hazard Mitigation Plan -1999
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<br />3.2.4.2.2 U.S. Natural Resources
<br />Conservation Service (NRCS)
<br />The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
<br />can provide technical assistance in the conservation
<br />development and productive use of soil and water
<br />resources, Its activities in Colorado indude watershed
<br />protection and flood protection projects, floodplain
<br />management studies, resource conservation and
<br />development, emergency watershed protection,
<br />conservation technical assistance, soil surveys, snow
<br />surveys, and water supply forecasting,
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<br />3.2.4.3 U,S. Department of Defense
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<br />3.2,4.3.1 U.S. Anny Corps of Engineers
<br />The Corps of Engineers is involved in developing and
<br />implementing plans for flood control, navigation,
<br />hydropower, recreation, and water supply, The corps
<br />also has authority for emergency operations, bank
<br />protection, perm~ administration, and technical
<br />assistance, Corps programs in Colorado can be lumped
<br />into five different authorities: 1) Feasibility Studies and
<br />Projects; 2) Continuing Authority Projects; 3)
<br />Emergency Operations; 4) Roodplain Management
<br />Services; and 5) Permit Issuance,
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<br />3.2.4,4 U.S. Department of Commerce
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<br />3.2.4.4.1 National Weather Service
<br />The National Weather Service is responsible for 36-48
<br />hour weather forecasting, issuing severe weather
<br />warnings and watches, flash flood warnings and
<br />watches, and flood warnings,
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<br />3.2.4.5 U.S. Department of Transportation
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<br />3.2.4.5,1 Federal Highway Administration
<br />The Federal Highway Administration provides highway
<br />construction grants to the states and directs federal
<br />highway construction appropriations, ~ ensures that the
<br />construction and maintenance of highways buin with
<br />federal aid comply with existing regulations and
<br />directives, These regulations provide for the flooding of
<br />roadway embankments and bridge structures located in
<br />floodplains. This agency is also concerned w~h stream
<br />channel changes in rural areas and detention facilities in
<br />urban areas, which affect highway routes, The design
<br />of its bridge projects occasionally involves reshaping
<br />channels for short distances upstream and downstream
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<br />3.2.4.6 U.S. Department of the Interior
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<br />3,2.4,6,1 U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
<br />The U,S, Bureau of Rectamation administers the federal
<br />program in western states for water resource
<br />development and use, which provides multiple purpose
<br />projects furnishing fish and wildlife protection and
<br />recreation opportun~ies, water for !ann irrigation,
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<br />municipal, and industrial use, hydroelectric power, flood
<br />control, and other natural resource conservation
<br />benefits,
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<br />3,2.4.6.2 U.S. Geological Survey
<br />Congress established the U,S, Geological Survey on
<br />March 3, 1879, to dassify public lands and examine the
<br />geological structure, mineral resources, and products of
<br />the country. Over the years, other Congressional acts
<br />have enlarged ~s duties and functions to indude making
<br />geological and topographic maps, gauging streams, and
<br />detennining water supplies of the Un~ed States. The
<br />survey can assist communities and state agenCies in
<br />collecting, developing, and computing basic data and
<br />infonnation for floodplain engineering studies and
<br />investigations.
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<br />Information available from the U,S, Geological Survey
<br />indudes records of water gauge heights, discharge
<br />runoff, times of travel, sediment discharge, historic flood
<br />peaks, and inundated areas. Reports of magnitude,
<br />frequency, and duration of flood flows are also kept.
<br />Flood prone areas subject to inundation by floods of
<br />approximately the 100-year frequency have been
<br />delineated on topographic maps for selected areas
<br />within Colorado and can be obtained through this
<br />agency .
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<br />3.2.4.6.3 U,S, Bureau of Land Management
<br />The Bureau of Land Management has district offices
<br />located in the 11 western states and Alaska, which are
<br />involved in land use planning for public lands. Each
<br />district office maintains a file of floodplain maps that are
<br />available for public inspection,
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