D r e d g e d material provides habitat for Royal and Sandwich tern colony, Cape Fear River North Carolina.
California, and Mt. St. Helens we expect to spend
the President to declare the area to be a national
disaster. If the President does so, the director of
over 0 million.
FEMA has the responsibility to provide whatever
relief is needed. If the work requires engineers, FEMA
It is our emergency operations functions which would
will pay us to do it. So the distinction is whether the
most closely align with our mobilization assignments
emergency is declared to be a national disaster by the
President.
in case of war, is it not?
That's true. In the final analysis the Corps of
Our emergency work is not only with flood problems
Engineers is an Army unit which must support the
but also with tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards-and
total Army during wartime. Our work during national
even volcanic eruptions. We enjoy a fine reputation for
disasters keeps us in training. We are very serious
efficiency and responsiveness. Apart from money
about our mobilization mission and are right now
funded by FEMA the Corps spends about million
annually on disaster relief. The year we had Agnes we
evaluating our capabilities. If we are ever asked to
mobilize, we want to be ready.
spent million. This year, with Frederic, flooding in
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