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002790 plan for mitigation of the dangers and costs of landsliding is clear. The process of lessening the impact of these costly events can save many lives and enormous amounts of money. Purpose The purpose of the mitigation plan is to reduce statewide actual and potential losses from landslides by: identifying major areas of vulnerability, identifying potential impacts and losses, identifying local governmental techniques, plans and programs that can assist in loss reduction, identifyjng unmet local needs essential to the loss reduction process, identifying and developing state agency capabilities and initiatives that can deal with unmet local needs, - developing cost beneficial State mitigation projects that may reasonably be expected to reduce landslide losses, - establishing means to provide a long-term, continuous governmental process to reduce losses, - periodic evaluation and adjustment of the plan. Scope Appropriate land-use management, effective building and grading codes, the use of well-designed engineering techniques for landslide control and stabilization, the timely issuance of emergency warnings, and the availability of such measures as landslide insurance can significantly reduce the catastrophic effects of landslides. All of these approaches require, as a starting point, the identification of areas where landslides are either statistically likely or immediately imminent, and the representation of these hazardous locations on maps. In Colorado, as in the rest of the United States, reduction of landslide losses is viewed primarily as a local responsibility. State and federal governments playa key role in research, mapping, and in landslide management on state and federally owned lands, but the reduction of landslide losses through land-use management and the application of building and grading codes - 4 -