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

(including the waters impounded by such dam) consti-
tutes a threat to human I~e or property ~ rt might be en-
dangered by overtopping, seepage, settlement, erosion,
sediment, cracking, earth movemen~ earthquakes, fail-
ure of bulkheads, flash boards, gates on condurts, or
other conditions,

Development: Means any man-made change to im-
proved or unimproved real estate, including but not lim-
ited to buildings or other structures, mining, dredging,
filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations
or storage d equipment or materials,

Disaster Field Office: (DFO): The location established
within the disaster area which functions as the joint
Federal-stale center for all response and recovery ac-
tivrties,

Disaster Preparedness Improvement Grant Pr0-
gram: A program authorized under Section 201 d the
Stafford Act which provides matching awards not to ex-
ceed $50,000 to stales to improve or update their disas-
ter assistance plans and capabilrties,

Drainageway: shall mean a depression tv.o feet or
more below the land which serves to give direction to a
current of water less than nine months of the year, and
which has a bed and well-<Jefined banks (see Water-
course).

Dry Flood-proofing: Any combination d adjustments
andlor addrtions to structures that are intended to elimi-
nate or reduce the potential for flood damage by pre-
venting water from entering the structure, Examples:
(waterproof walls and floors; permanently or semi-
permanently seal doors, windows, or other openings;
build a berm higher than the floor leveL)

Emergency: - Any occasion or instance which, in the
determination d the Presiden~ Federal assistance is
needed to supplement stale and local efforts and capa-
bilrties to save lives and protect property and public
health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a
catastrophe in any part of the Unrted Stales,

Emergency Management - A program to "reduce vul-
nerability d people and communities d this state to
damage, injury, and loss of I~e and property resulting
from natural or man made catastrophes'.

Emergency Program (NFIP): is typically the first phase
under which a community participates in the NFIP, It is
intended to provide a first layer amount of insurance at
subsidized rates to all insurable structures in that com-
munity before the effective date of the inrtial Flood In-
surance Rate Map (FIRM),

Encroachment: is any man-made obstruction in the
floodplain, which displaces the natural passage of
floodwaters.

Environmental Assessment: A document that is pre-
pared when a project does not qualify as a categorical
exclusion and serves to determine whether an Environ-
mental Impact Statement is needed,

Environmental Impact Statement: A document that is
prepared for all actions sign~icantly affecting the envi-
ronment

Existing Construction: means (for the purposes of
determining flood insurance rates) structures for which
the "start of construction" commenced before the effec-
tive date of the FIRM or before January 1, 1975, for
FIRM's effective before that date, "Existing construc-
tion" may also be referred to as "existing structures. "

Exfsting Manufactured Home Park or Sub-DivIsion:
means a manufactured home park or subdivision for
which the construction d facilities for servicing the lots
on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed
(including at a minimum, the installation of utilities, the
construction of streets, and erther final srte grading or
the pouring of concrete pads) is complete before the
effective date of the floodplain management regulations
adopted by a community,

Expansion of Existing Manufactured Home Park or
Sub-Division: means the preparation of additional srtes
by the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on
which the manufactured homes are to be affixed
(including the installation of utilrties, the construction of
streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of
concrete pads),

Executive Orders 11988 and 11990: The require-
ments to avoid direct or indirect support of floodplain
development and to minimize harm to floodplains and
wetlands, Federal decision-makers are obligated to
comply with these orders, accomplished through an
eight-step decisior>-making process,

Facfllty: Any publicly or privately owned building,
works, system, or equipmen~ built or manufactured, or
an improved and maintained natural feature. land used
for agricurtural purposes is not a facility.

Federal Agency: Any department, independent estab-
lishmen~ government corporation, or other agency of
the executive branch of the Federal govemment includ-
ing the U.S, Postal Service, Does not include the
American Red Cross.

Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO): The person ap-
pointed by the President to manage all Federal re-
sponse to a major disaster or emergency,

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): is
an independent federal agency established to respond
to emergencies beyond the scope of local and stale
resources. FEMA administers the US Fire Administra-
tion, Office of Strategic Communication and the Federal
Insurance Administration which includes the National
Flood Insurance Program and the Federal Crime Insur-
ance Program, FEMA operates through ten regional
offices that work in partnership with various state and
local agencies, FEMA's "Mission" is to provide leader-
ship and support to reduce the loss of I~e and property
and protect the nations institutions from all types d haz-
ards through a comprehensive, risk-llased, al~hazards
emergency management program d mrtigation, prepar-
edness, response and recovery. FEMA has been dele-

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