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- Corps of Engineers to prepare draft Environmental Impact Report for Isabella Dam Safety Assurance (Kern Valley Sun)
Mar 3, 2010 - Geri AdamsSpecial to the Sun The Sacramento District of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, with their cooperating agency, the Sequoia National Forest, will soon publish a Notice of Intent (NOI) for the preparation of a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The draft EIS will assess a federal action to remediate seismic, seepage, and hydrologic dam safety concerns at the Isabella ... - Flood insurance back, for now (Orange County Register)
Mar 3, 2010 - Flood insurance is alive again. For now. President Barack Obama signed a bill that gives the National Flood Insurance Program – essentially the only way to protect a home against rising waters – a new life. Eh, through March 28. - Opposition says it would fund pipeline (Northern Daily Leader)
Mar 3, 2010 - IF A Coalition State government is elected next March it will fund the pipeline from Split Rock Dam to Barraba. - Flood program temporarily reauthorized (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Mar 3, 2010 - The U.S. Senate resurrected the National Flood Insurance Program for 30 days on Tuesday night, reinstating coverage for for thousands of homeowners in the New Orleans area. But the approval was not retroactive, so any policyholder that may have... - National Flood Insurance Program Temporarily Restored (Insurance Journal)
Mar 3, 2010 - The U.S. Senate last night passed legislation that includes an extension of the federal flood insurance program until March 28. President Obama has signed the measure. The extension means that the ... - Congress renews flood-insurance program (The Houma Courier)
Mar 3, 2010 - Nikki Buskey Staff Writer HOUMA — After a two-day lapse, the U.S. Senate has renewed the nation’s flood-insurance program for another 30 days. The action Tuesday night came after a lone Republican senator ended a protest that had blocked a $10 billion stopgap spending bill that includes the insurance extension and other measures. - Lessons of the 1979 Easter Flood (Jackson Free Press)
Mar 3, 2010 - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recommended last week that FEMA re-certify the levees protecting the Hinds and Rankin County edges bordering the Pearl River, despite the fact that the levees cannot stop a 200-year flood event similar to the 1979 Pearl River flood. - Louisiana's Vitter Wants to Stop Flood Map Updates While Levees Fixed (Insurance Journal)
Mar 3, 2010 - U.S. Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana wants to stop the Federal Emergency Management Agency from updating flood maps around communities working to fix levees found to be deficient. Vitter said many ... - March 2010 Geology and GSA Today Highlights (EurekAlert!)
Mar 3, 2010 - ( Geological Society of America ) In Geology, examination of Chicxulub impact crater sediments supports existing K-T mass extinction theories; Cretaceous nannofossils help clarify climate change; a debris flows study breaks up the sieve-lobe paradigm; Walter Alvarez and coauthor take a look back at the Copernican Revolution; microbial mats display evolutionary creativity through wax esters; and ... - Midwest frets over halted flood insurance program (KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul)
Mar 3, 2010 - It's going to be a wet spring for much of the nation's midsection, if flood forecasts are to be believed, and federal officials have been