WSPC01371

• File Number: 8200.300.20 C
• Description: Colorado River Basin - Legislation-Law - Federal - Colorado River Floodway Protection Act
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 8/30/1989
• Title: Report of Colorado River Floodway Task Force
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

Table 1
Executive Summary

Chapter VIII

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Recommendations on the potential application of the Floodway on Indian lands and
recommended legislation or regulations that might be needed to achieve the purposes of the
Floodway taking into consideration the special federal status of Indian lands.

Issues

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I. Needed river bank stabilization
and protection and tributary flood
and erosion control improvements on
the five Indian reservations along
lower Colorado River.

II. Flood plain management regulations
for Indian reservation lands.

Recommendations

I. The Secretary of the Interior, in
consultation with tribes, should conduct
assessments of needed work and establish,
with the approval of the tribes, priority
programs for implementing improvements.

II. The Indian tribes should adopt regulations that
meet the minimum criteria of the National Flood
Insurance program and that include the Task
Force's recommended regulation amendments for
the Colorado River Floodway. The Federal
Emergency Management Agency should conduct
flood hazard area mapping of Indian
reservation lands along the lower Colorado
River, in consultation with the Bureau of
Indian Affairs and the Indian Tribes, for
the purposes of identifying floods hazards
and tribal participation in the National
Flood Insurance Program.

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