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RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
The Honorable Julie Cozad
Chairman, Weld County
Board of Commissioners
P. O. Box 758
Greeley, CO 80632
Dear Ms. Cozad:
Washington, D.C. 20472
August 10, 2017
IN REPLY REFER TO:
Case No.: 17-08-1017X
Community Name: Weld County,
Community No.: 080266
Effective Date of
This Revision:
RECEIVED
AUG 172017
WELD COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS
CO
December 22, 2017
The Flood Insurance Rate Map for your community has been revised by this Letter of Map Revision (LOMR).
Please use the enclosed annotated map panel revised by this LOMR for floodplain management purposes and for all
flood insurance policies and renewals issued in your community.
Additional documents are enclosed that provide information regarding this LOMR. Please see the List of Enclosures
below to determine which documents are included. Other attachments specific to this request may be included as
referenced in the Determination Document. If you have any questions regarding floodplain management regulations
for your community or the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in general, please contact the Consultation
Coordination Officer for your community. If you have any technical questions regarding this LOMR, please contact
the Director, Mitigation Division of the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) in Boston, Massachusetts, at (617) 832-4761, or the FEMA Map Information eXchange toll free at
1-877-336-2627 (1-877-FEMA MAP). Additional information about the NFIP is available on our website at
http: "/www. fema. uavi national -flood -insurance -pro era rn.
Sincerely,
Patrick "Rick" F. Sacbibit, P.E., Branch Chief
Engineering Services Branch
Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration
List of Enclosures:
Letter of Map Revision Determination Document
Annotated Flood Insurance Rate Map
cc: Ms. Diana Aungst
Floodplain Administrator
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Issue Date: August 10, 2017
Effective Date: December 22, 2017
Case No.: 17-08-1017X
LOMR-APP
Federal Emergency Management Agency
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LETTER OF MAP REVISION
DETERMINATION DOCUMENT
COMMUNITY AND REVISION INFORMATION
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BASIS OF REQUEST
COMMUNITY
Weld County
Colorado
(Unincorporated Areas)
NO PROJECT
UPDATE
COMMUNITY NO.: 080266
IDENTIFIER
Weld County Road Extension, Update to LOMR (16-08-0665P)
APPROXIMATE LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE: 40.422, -104.619
SOURCE: USGS QUADRANGLE DATUM: NAD 83
ANNOTATED MAPPING ENCLOSURES
ANNOTATED STUDY ENCLOSURES
TYPE: FIRM* NO.: 08123C1561E DATE: January 20, 2016
NO REVISION TO THE FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY REPORT
Enclosures reflect changes to flooding sources affected by this revision.
* FIRM - Flood Insurance Rate Map
FLOODING SOURCE AND REVISED REACH
Cache La Poudre - From approximately 930 downstream to just downstream of Weld County Parkway Bridge
SUMMARY OF REVISIONS
This Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) updates the FIRM panel 08123C1561 E for Weld County that inadvertently mislabeled two base flood elevations (BFEs*) on the
FIRM panel attachment for a previous LOMR effective June 20, 2017, (Case No. 16-08-0665P). This LOMR does not revise the base floodplain and regulatory
floodway as shown in the previous LOMR along Cache La Poudre.
* BFEs - Base Flood Elevations
DETERMINATION
This document provides the determination from the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
regarding a request for a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) for the area described above. Using the information submitted, we have determined that
a revision to the flood hazards depicted in the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report and/or National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) map is
warranted. This document revises the effective NFIP map, as indicated in the attached documentation. Please use the enclosed annotated map
panels revised by this LOMR for floodplain management purposes and for all flood insurance policies and renewals in your community.
This determination is based on the flood data presently available. The enclosed documents provide additional information regarding this determination. If you have
any questions about this document, please contact the FEMA Map Information eXchange toll free at 1-877-336-2627 (1-877-FEMA MAP) or by letter addressed to the
LOMC Clearinghouse, 3601 Eisenhower Avenue, Suite 500, Alexandria, VA 22304-6426. Additional Information about the NFIP is available on our website at
https://www.fema.govinational-flood-insurance-program.
Patrick "Rick" F. Sacbibit, P.E., Branch Chief
Engineering Services Branch
Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration 17-08-1017X 102 -I -A -C
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Issue Date: August 10, 2017
Effective Date: December 22, 2017
Case No.: 17-08-1017X
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LETTER OF MAP REVISION
DETERMINATION DOCUMENT (CONTINUED)
COMMUNITY INFORMATION
APPLICABLE NFIP REGULATIONS/COMMUNITY OBLIGATION
We have made this determination pursuant to Section 206 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 (P.L. 93-234) and in accordance
with the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended (Title XIII of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, P.L. 90-448),
42 U.S.C. 4001-4128, and 44 CFR Part 65. Pursuant to Section 1361 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended,
communities participating in the NFIP are required to adopt and enforce floodplain management regulations that meet or exceed NFIP
criteria. These criteria, including adoption of the FIS report and FIRM, and the modifications made by this LOMR, are the minimum
requirements for continued NFIP participation and do not supersede more stringent State/Commonwealth or local requirements to which
the regulations apply.
COMMUNITY REMINDERS
We based this determination on the 1 -percent -annual -chance flood discharges computed in the FIS for your community without
considering subsequent changes in watershed characteristics that could increase flood discharges. Future development of projects
upstream could cause increased flood discharges, which could cause increased flood hazards. A comprehensive restudy of your
community's flood hazards would consider the cumulative effects of development on flood discharges subsequent to the publication of
the FIS report for your community and could, therefore, establish greater flood hazards in this area.
Your community must regulate all proposed floodplain development and ensure that permits required by Federal and/or
State/Commonwealth law have been obtained. State/Commonwealth or community officials, based on knowledge of local conditions and
in the interest of safety, may set higher standards for construction or may limit development in floodplain areas. If your
State/Commonwealth or community has adopted more restrictive or comprehensive floodplain management criteria, those criteria take
precedence over the minimum NFIP requirements.
We will not print and distribute this LOMR to primary users, such as local insurance agents or mortgage lenders; instead, the community
will serve as a repository for the new data. We encourage you to disseminate the information in this LOMR by preparing a news release
for publication in your community's newspaper that describes the revision and explains how your community will provide the data and
help interpret the NFIP maps. In that way, interested persons, such as property owners, insurance agents, and mortgage lenders, can
benefit from the information.
This determination is based on the flood data presently available. The enclosed documents provide additional information regarding this determination. If you have
any questions about this document, please contact the FEMA Map Information eXchange toll free at 1-877-336-2627 (1-877-FEMA MAP) or by letter addressed to the
LOMC Clearinghouse, 3601 Eisenhower Avenue, Suite 500, Alexandria, VA 22304-6426. Additional Information about the NFIP is available on our website at
https://www.fema.gov/national-flood-insurance-program.
Patrick "Rick" F. Sacbibit, P.E., Branch Chief
Engineering Services Branch
Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration 17-08-1017X 102 -I -A -C
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Issue Date: August 10, 2017
Effective Date: December 22, 2017
Case No.: 17-08-1017X
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LETTER OF MAP REVISION
DETERMINATION DOCUMENT (CONTINUED)
We have designated a Consultation Coordination Officer (CCO) to assist your community. The CCO will be the primary liaison between
your community and FEMA. For information regarding your CCO, please contact:
Ms. Jeanine D. Petterson
Director, Mitigation Division
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Region VIII
Denver Federal Center, Building 710
P.O. Box 25267
Denver, CO 80225-0267
(303) 235-4830
STATUS OF THE COMMUNITY NFIP MAPS
We will not physically revise and republish the FIRM for your community to reflect the modifications made by this LOMR at this time.
When changes to the previously cited FIRM panel warrant physical revision and republication in the future, we will incorporate the
modifications made by this LOMR at that time.
This determination is based on the flood data presently available. The enclosed documents provide additional information regarding this determination. If you have
any questions about this document, please contact the FEMA Map Information eXchange toll free at 1-877-336-2627 (1-877-FEMA MAP) or by letter addressed to the
LOMC Clearinghouse, 3601 Eisenhower Avenue, Suite 500, Alexandria, VA 22304-6426. Additional Information about the NFIP is available on our website at
https://www.fema.gov/national-flood-insurance-program.
Patrick "Rick" F. Sacbibit, P.E., Branch Chief
Engineering Services Branch
Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration 17-08-1017X 102 -I -A -C
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Issue Date: August 10, 2017
Effective Date: December 22, 2017
Case No.: 17-08-1017X
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LETTER OF MAP REVISION
DETERMINATION DOCUMENT (CONTINUED)
PUBLIC NOTIFICATION OF REVISION
A notice of changes will be published in the Federal Register. This information also will be published in your local newspaper on or
about the dates listed below, and through FEMA's Flood Hazard Mapping website at
https:/,'www.floodmaps.Tema.gov/ thm/bfe_stofu s/bfe main.asp
LOCAL NEWSPAPER Name: Greeley Tribune
Dates: August 17, 2017 and August 24, 2017
Within 90 days of the second publication in the local newspaper, any interested party may request that we reconsider this determination.
Any request for reconsideration must be based on scientific or technical data. Therefore, this letter will be effective only after the 90 -day
appeal period has elapsed and we have resolved any appeals that we receive during this appeal period. Until this LOMR is effective, the
revised flood hazard determination presented in this LOMR may be changed.
This determination is based on the flood data presently available. The enclosed documents provide additional information regarding this determination. If you have
any questions about this document, please contact the FEMA Map Information eXchange toll free at 1-877-336-2627 (1-877-FEMA MAP) or by letter addressed to the
LOMC Clearinghouse, 3601 Eisenhower Avenue, Suite 500, Alexandria, VA 22304-6426. Additional Information about the NFIP is available on our website at
https://www.fema.gov/national-flood-insurance-program.
Patrick "Rick" F. Sacbibit, P.E., Branch Chief
Engineering Services Branch
Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration 17-08-1017X 102 -I -A -C
Without Base Rood Elevation (BFE)
Zone A, V A99
With BFE or Depth Zone AE. AO, 4H. VE, AR
Regulatory Floodway
0.2 % Annual Chance Flood Hazard, Areas
of 1% annual chance flood with average
depth less than one foot or with drainage
areas of less than one square mile zone X
Future Conditions 1% Annual
Chance Flood Hazard zone x
Area with Reduced Flood Risk due to Levee
See Notes. ,,,:Nx
Map Projection:
Universal Transverse MercatorNAD 1983 UTM Zone 13N
Western Hemisphere: Vertical Datum: NAVD 88
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