The Corps Alaska District removed military contaminants from a salt marsh.
To learn more, visit
(Select the following to go to:) http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepa/pubs/oct99/story14.htm
To learn more about Corps remediation programs, visit
(Select the following to go to:) http://www.amrivers.org/corpsreform.html
American Rivers and the Corps of Engineers hosted a one-day conference on Corps of Engineers habitat restoration in Nebraska City, NE. Following Corps presentations on completed projects, members of American Rivers Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee and conference participants offered the following comments:
The Corps should integrate ecological goals into all project planning, including navigation and flood control projects
The Corps should draw a distinction between restoration and mitigation
Monitoring should be built in restoration and mitigation projects
The Corps should develop projects within the context of watersheds and ecological systems
The Corps should broaden its base of cost-sharing partners and seek the input of more local stakeholders
The Corps should incorporate existence values into their assessment of project benefits and costs
To view a letter from American Rivers Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee to the Corps, visit
(Select the following to go to:) http://www.amrivers.org/corpsstacletter.html
House and Senate negotiators reconciled competing versions of the Energy and Water Appropriations Bill for FY 2000, which provides annual funding for the Corps. To view the conference report, visit
(Select the following to go to:) http://thomas.loc.gov/
on the World Wide Web and type in H. Rpt. 106-336.
Officials with the Office of Management and Budget and the Corps of Engineers are developing the Clinton Administration s Budget Request for FY 2001. To learn more about funding priorities for FY 2001 and what you can do, visit
(Select the following to go to:) http://www.amrivers.org/rbudget.html
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