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

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changes in land management, might best effect the
purposes of the Colorado River Floodway protection
Act;

(b) the necessity for additional Floodway management
legislation at local, tribal, state, and federal
levels;

(c) the development of specific design criteria for the
creation of the Floodway boundaries;

(d) the review of mapping procedures for Floodway
boundaries;

(e) whether compensation should be recommended in
specific cases of economic hardship resulting from
impacts of the 1983 flood on property outside the
Floodway which could not reasonably have been
foreseen; and

(f) 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.

Each of these areas of recommendations are addressed in
separate chapters of this report.

The composition of the Colorado River Floodway Task
Force, as provided in Section 4 of the Act, is to include one
representative of:

(a) each state (appointed by the Governor) and Indian
reservation in which the Floodway is located,

(b) each county in which the Floodway is located;

(c) a law enforcement agency from each county in which
the Floodway is located,

(d) each water district in which the Floodway is
located;

(e) the cities of Needles, Parker, Blythe, Bullhead
City, Yuma, Laughlin, Lake Havasu City, (if and
when incorporated), and Mohave County, Arizona
Supervisor District No. 2 (chosen by, but not a
member of the Board of Supervisors);

(f) the Chamber of Commerce from each county in which
the Floodway is located;

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