FLOOD08745

• County: Statewide
• Community: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Colorado Flood Hazard Mitigation Plan
• Date: 12/1/1999
• Prepared For: State of Colorado
• Prepared By: Kistner and Associates
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

Colorado Flood Hazard Mitigation Plan -1999

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information and suggesting steps to modify the plan,

Overall the SHMT, the Office of Emergency
Management Office, and Colorado Water Conservation
Board, will complete scrutiny of the plan process.
Special problem areas, such as implementation,
coordination, support and policy focus, will be explored.
The process evaluation will report which implementation
processes worked well, what barriers were discovered,
how the communication and coordination efforts
performed, and which processes need to be revis~ed or
strengthened, These findings will be incorporated into
the updated plan,

6.2.4 Update and Modification
Following the annual review and evaluation of this plan,
updates and modifICations will be developed by the
State Hazard M~igation Team (SHMT) annually, This
part of the plan process involves bringing all of the
information together from all of the previous phases,
measuring that information against the plan and
initiating appropriate changes to the plan,

Updating the plan is much like developing the initial plan
in that wilhoullocal and state agency support, the plan
will be difficult to implement. ConsequenUy, results of
the outreach activities conducted in the monitoring and
evaluation stages must be the foundation for the
suggested plan modifICations.

The Colorado Natural Hazards Mitigation Council
(CNHMC) will be best su~ed to introduce the modified
plan to the state agencies and secure their support in
implementing the changes, The CNHMC will also wor1<
with the SHMO in educating and taking the
modifications to the county EMCs and other local
officials and organizations, Many of the same
community outreach activities will be held as were
conducted when the plan was first developed and
introduced, In this manner the cyde of implementation,
monitoring, evaluation, and modification will be again
set in motion,

Since Colorado's Flood Hazard M~igation Plan focuses
heavily upon policy issues, options for ongoing funding,
and developing a high priority for mitigation, it is
expected that as progress is made in these areas, some
of the goals will shift to keep pace with the state's
progress and current needs. This plan is intended to be
the launching point for the state commitment to
m~igation, To remain a useful tool for the long term, it is
crilicalthat we stretch our system and remain flexible to
reach current goals while forming new goals that will
prepare us for the Mure.

6.2,5 Future Enhancements
Other updates and modifications will be undertaken as
new hazards are defined or in the event of a federally
declared disaster in the state, In these events, the
process will continue to solicit and indude the
contributions of those at the local and state levels to
best define m~igation needs for the current situation and
for the comprehensive long-term plan.

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