- AAR – After Action Report
- ARC – American Red Cross
- AVE – Audio Visual Entrainment
- BCC – Boulder County Collaborative
- BFE – Base Floodplain Elevation
- BoCo – Boulder County
- BOEM – Boulder Office of Emergency Management
- BOT – Board of Trustees
- BTMTH – Known by initiation only (also TBTMTH)
- C4JT – Cyclists for Jamestown
- CAM – Christian Aid Ministries
- CAR – Colorado Association of Realtors
- CART – Communication Access Realtime Translation
- CDBG-DR – Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery
- CDEM – Colorado Department of Emergency Management
- CDOT – Colorado Department of Transportation
- CDPHE – Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
- CDVMN – Colorado Donations and Volunteer Management Network
- CFM – Certified Floodplain Manager
- CFS – Cubic Feet per Second
- CLOMR – Conditional Letter of Map Revision (More below)
- CO – Certificate of Occupancy / Colorado
- COANG – Colorado Air National Guard
- COARNG – Colorado Army National Guard
- COVOAD – Colorado Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster
- CR – County Road
- CRO – Chief Recovery Officer
- CRRO – Colorado Resiliency and Recovery Office
- CVCN – Colorado Volunteer Center Network
- DAC – Direct Administrative Costs
- DBA – Davis Bacon Act
- DEF – Disaster Emergency Funds
- DEM – Division of Emergency Management
- DFIRM – Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps
- DHSEM – Department of Homeland Security
- DOB – Duplication of Benefits
- DOLA – Department of Local Affairs
- EOC – Emergency Operations Center
- EIAF – Energy/Mineral Impact Assistance Fund
- EMS – Emergency Medical Services
- EPA – Environmental Protection Agency
- EWP – Emergency Watershed Program
- FEMA – Federal Emergency Management Agency
- FHFH – Flatirons Habitat for Humanity
- FIRM – Flood Insurance Rate Map (More below)
- FMV – Fair Market Value
- FRPC – Flood Recovery Permitting Center
- GOCO – Great Outdoors Colorado
- HIRA – Hazard Investigation and Risk Assessment
- HIRA LUHA – Hazard Investigation and Risk Assessment, Land Use and Housing Analysis
- HMGP – Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
- HRV – Heart Rate Variability
- HUD – Housing and Urban Development
- IA – Individual Assistance
- IAC – Indirect Administrative Costs
- ICC – Increased Cost of Compliance
- ICS – Incident Command System
- IGA – Inter-Governmental Agreement
- IMA – InterMountain Alliance
- IMPs – Implementation Team (for the JT LTRP)
- JAG – Jamestown Acronym Guide
- JAL – Jamestown Area Library
- JAM – Jamestown Artists and Musicians
- JES – Jamestown Elementary School
- JT – Jamestown
- JVFD – Jamestown Volunteer Fire Department
- LOMR – Letter of Map Revision (More below)
- LSA – Labor Surplus Area
- LTFRG – Long-Term Flood Recovery Group
- LTRP – Long-Term Recovery Plan
- LUHAC – Land Use and Housing Advisory Committee
- MA – Mission Assignment
- MAA – Mutual Aid Agreement
- MACS – Multiple Agency Coordination System
- MBE/WBE – Minority Business Enterprise / Women Business Enterprise
- MDS – Mennonite Disaster Services
- MH – Mental Health
- MSE – Mechanically Stabilized Earth
- MOU – Memorandum of Understanding
- NCCC – National Civilian Community Corps (Americorps)
- NEPA – National Environmental Policy Act
- NFIP – National Flood Insurance Program
- NOA – Notice of Award
- NOI – Notice of Intent
- NRCS – Natural Resources Conservation Service
- NVOAD – National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster
- OEM – Office of Emergency Management
- OIG – Office of Inspector General
- PA – Public Assistance
- PAC – Public Assistance Coordinator
- PAT – Planning Advisory Team
- PE – Permanent Easement
- PE – Professional Engineer
- PEA – Programmatic Environmental Assessment
- PIO – Public Information Officer
- PO – Purchase Order
- PPDR – Private Property Debris Removal
- PPO – Private Property Owner
- PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- PW – Project Worksheet
- RFI – Request for Information
- RFP – Request for Proposals
- RFR – Request for Reimbursement
- ROA – Right of Access
- ROE – Right of Entry
- ROW – Right of Way
- RRT – Rapid Response Team
- SBDC – Small Business Development Center
- SEMS – Standardized Emergency Management System
- SEOC – State Emergency Operations Center
- SSI – Social Security Income
- TABOR – Taxpayer Bill of Rights
- TCO – Temporary Certificate of Occupancy
- TE – Temporary Easement
- URA – Uniform Relocation Act
- USACE – United States Army Corps of Engineers
- USDA – United States Department of Agriculture
- USFS – United States Forest Service
- VAL – Voluntary Agency Liaison
- VOAD – Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster
- WTP – Water Treatment Plant
LOMR VS. CLOMR
LOMR (Pronounced “lo-mer”) stands for “Letter of Map Revision” and is FEMA’s modification letter to redefine the floodplain and is the basis for rebuilding and insurance rates. (The Stream Corridor Master Plan forms the basis for the LOMR.) A CLOMR is a Conditional Letter of Map Revision. While the town is focusing first on the LOMR, CLOMRs may still need to be applied for with specific projects that raise the floodplain. For example:
- Upper Ward Street
- Other private property
- Main St. Bridge
The Town of Jamestown has moved to the more flexible strategy of first adopting a LOMR (rather than a CLOMR) in order to provide more certainty for Jamestown’s rebuild efforts. It also has the result of being a cheaper process for Jamestown. Amec will submit the LOMR to FEMA around 4/1/14. Approval of the LOMR by FEMA may not happen until late 2014 or 1st Quarter 2015. After FEMA has accepted the LOMR – that will replace the 1981 floodplain map.
FIRM
Regulated floodplains are illustrated on inundation maps called Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM). FIRM maps are currently being replaced with Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRM) as part of FEMA‘s map modernization project. It is the official map of a community on which the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has delineated both the special flood hazard areas and the risk premium zones applicable to the community. Private citizens and insurance agents use FIRM‘s to determine whether or not specific properties are located within flood hazard areas. Community officials use FIRM‘s to administer floodplain management regulations and to mitigate flood damage. Lending institutions and federal agencies use FIRM‘s to locate properties and buildings in relation to mapped flood hazards, and to determine whether flood insurance is required when making loans or providing grants following a disaster for the purchase or construction of a building. The 100-year flood, which is the minimum standard used by most federal and state agencies, is used by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as the standard for floodplain management and to determine the need for flood insurance. Most of the flood prone counties and incorporated communities within the planning area participate in the NFIP. Participation in the NFIP requires adoption of a local floodplain management ordinance and its enforcement within a mapped Special Flood Hazard Area. A jurisdiction‘s eligibility to participate is premised on their adoption and enforcement of state and community floodplain management regulations intended to prevent unsafe development in the floodplain, thereby reducing future flood damages. Thus, participation in the NFIP is based on an agreement between communities and the federal government. If a community adopts and enforces a floodplain management ordinance to reduce future flood risk to new construction in floodplains, the federal government will make flood insurance available within the community as a financial protection against flood losses. Since floods have an annual probability of occurrence, have a known magnitude, depth and velocity for each event, and in most cases, have a map indicating where they will occur, they are in many ways often the most predictable and manageable hazard. For more on the NFIP, please click here.