BOARD01912

• Board Meeting Date: 5/21/2001
• Description: Flood Section - Authorization for continued participation in the cooperating technical partner ‎(CTP)‎ agreement between FEMA and CWCB
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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STATE OF COLORADO

Colorado Water Conservation Board
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Stree,. Room 121
Oenver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
PAl(: (303) 8664474
www.cwcb.state.co.us

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Sill Owens
Governor

MEMORANDUM

OregE. Walcher
.Executive Direccor

TO:

Rod: Kuharich
CWCB Director

Dan McAuliffe
Deputy Director

Colorado Water Conservation Board Members

FROM:

Larry Lang and Tom Browning

DATE:

May 7,2001

SUBJECT: Consent Agenda Item 5, May 2001 Board Meeting -
Authorization for continued participation in the Cooperating Technical Partner
(CTP) Agreement between FEMA and CWCB

INTRODUCTION
At the March 20-21, 2000 meeting, the Board authorized CWCB staff to enter into an agreement
with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to participate in a new program called
the Cooperating Technical Community (CTC) program. The purpose of the program is for state
governments and local entities to become technical partners with lEMA for the development of
new floodplain identification studies and mapping in Colorado. The program is designed to
provide funding and technical assistance to communities in a more efficient manner than the
traditional federal approaches.

FEMA has renamed the CTC program to Cooperating Technical Partner (CTP) simply as a
housekeeping measure to better describe the program, The program 'Itself is unchanged and
provides all of the same benefits and measures as the GTC program.

DISCUSSION
The jollowing bullet items summarize the key issues related to this agenda Item:

· Executive Order 8504 states that "the Colorado Water Conservation Board is the State agency
responsible for state-wide programs for flood prevention, flood control, flood protection, and
flood hazard study criteria, as provided by Section 37-60-106(1), Colorado revised statutes
1973. and Section 24-65.1-403, Colorado Revised Statutes 1973..... and it states. that "the
Colorado Water Conservation Board is the State agency designated to coordinate the National
Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended, and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973,"

Flood Protection. Water Project Planning and Financing. Stream and Lake Protection
Water Supply Protection. Consmation Planning

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