Environmental Management Technical Center. Strategic Plan with Implementation Objectives for the Period 1998-2002

摘要

The Environmental Management Technical Center (Center) located in Onalaska, Wisconsin, is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) science center. The Center was established in 1988 as an office of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), specifically in response to the Water Resources Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-662). In this legislation, Congress recognized the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) as a nationally significant ecosystem and a nationally significant commercial navigation system. Congress defined the UMRS as the commercially navigable portions of the Mississippi River north of Cairo, Illinois, and the Minnesota, Black, Saint Croix, Illinois, and Kaskaskia Rivers. The act authorized a series of elements known as the Upper Mississippi River System Environmental Management Program (EMP) and provided funding through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) budget process.