Playas, "The flat-floored bottom of an undrained desert basin that becomes at times a shallow lake which on evaporation may leave a deposit of salt or gypsum,"1 are regulated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) under the provisions of the Code of Federal Regulations 33 CFR 328.3 A implementing Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The Corps and others perform jurisdictional delineations of playas to determine ...
Large-scale natural or technological disasters often require some level of government response to mitigate their effects. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers response actions may occur under Public Law 84-99 authorizing the Chief of Engineers to activate the Corps for emergency flood control and coastal shore protection or under P.L. 93-288 as work for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Regardless of the type of disaster, rapid image acquisition and analysis ...
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