Colorado Action Plan for Disaster Recovery Version 7.8

On September 11, 2013, record rainfall unleashed flooding across 24 Colorado Counties, damaging and destroying homes, businesses, infrastructure and watersheds, carved new river channels, tragically took 10 lives, and changed the lives of thousands of Coloradans. The 2013 floods followed immediately behind three of the most destructive wildfires in State history, the High Park, Waldo Canyon and Black Forest wildfires, which destroyed approximately 1,100 homes and scarred forest and watersheds, leading to ongoing post‐wildfire flooding impacts to downstream communities. With each disaster, local, state and federal agencies, non‐profits, businesses and individual Coloradans came together to support and carry out critical recovery efforts. One important resource within the portfolio of recovery programs is the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Community Development Block Grant ‐ Disaster Recovery (CDBG‐DR) grant program.

This document consolidates the State of Colorado’s original CDBG‐DR Action Plan that HUD approved on April 23, 2014, and all subsequent Substantial and Non‐Substantial Amendments into one document. The purpose of this combined Action Plan is to provide grantees and the public with a comprehensive and accessible view of the State’s CDBG‐DR programs.