Chapter 14

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Chapter 14EMERGENCYACTION PLANNING14 1MAY PURPOSEEmergency action planning for dams includes establishing procedures and identifying potential actions and resources for responding to a condition of impending or actual dam failure. Guidelines published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA; 2004a, 2004b) provide general information on hazard-potential classification and emergency action planning for dams. The guid-ance presented in this Chapter is divided into two parts: (1) Emergency Action Plan (EAP) prepara-tion and (2) emergency remedial actions that a facility Owner/Operator can take independent of responsibilities defined in the EAP to prevent an embankment/impoundment failure or to reduce potential damage in the event that a failure does preparation is addressed in S

Chapter 14 EMERGENCY ACTION PLANNING MAY 2009 14–1 14.1 PURPOSE Emergency action planning for dams includes establishing procedures and …

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