Administering Agency: |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
Contact: |
Readiness Branch, Omaha District, (402) 995-2448
(24-hour emergency number) |
Authority: |
Public Law 84-99, as amended |
Assistance Available: |
USACE is authorized to provide emergency operations support to communities with impending and/or current flooding. |
Emergency Operations: |
- 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: |
Any critical facility faced with an impending and/or current flood threat to public health and welfare. |
Qualifying Requirements: |
- 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 Omaha District
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Application: |
Please coordinate an official request through your State’s Emergency Management Office; however, please call let us know about your concerns. |
Comments: |
Flood fighting authority is initiated during a flood event. |