Emergency Management
Flooding Response Assistance (Emergency Operations) Authority
Administering Agency:
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
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Contact:
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Operations & Readiness Branch, Albuquerque District, (505) 342-3686
(24-hour emergency number)
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Statute:
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Public Law 84-99, as amended
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Assistance Available:
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USACE is authorized to provide emergency operations support to communities with impending and/or current flooding.
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Emergency Operations:
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- Assist or direct flood fight efforts
- Conduct field investigations / data collection
- Provide emergency flood fight supplies
- Initiate emergency contracting
- Assist with search and rescue operations
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Beneficiaries:
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Any critical facility faced with an impending and/or current flood threat to public health and welfare.
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Qualifying Requirements:
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- Written Request from the Governor
- Impacts to critical facilities only
- Supplemental to the state/tribal/local government flood fight efforts
- Temporary in nature and directed to the immediate threat
- Reasonable and prudent
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Supplies & Materials:
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- Materials including sandbags, sandbag filling machines, pumps, and rapid deployable flood fighting measures are staged at varied locations throughout the Albuquerque District
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Application:
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Please coordinate an official request through your State’s Emergency Management Office; however, please call let us know about your concerns.
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Comments:
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Flood fighting authority is initiated during a flood event.
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