Acronyms
PIR
What is Project Information Report?
The city's motto "Philadelphia maneto" means this.
What is "Let brotherly love endure"?
Changing the funding amount, or Period of Performance in a MA is usually know as this.
What is a Mission Assignment Amendment?
We learned this week that these two attendees recently spent time in Bosnia.
Who are Mike Ganley and Tony Hill?
Also know as Section 22 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1974 (PL 93-251), as amended, this program gives USACE the authority to provide states, local governments, other non-Federal entities, and eligible Native American Indian tribes assistance in the preparation of comprehensive plans for the development, utilization, and conservation of water and related land resources.
What is Planning Assistance to States?
DFA
What is Direct Federal Assistance?
Brothers Pat and Harry Olivieri reputedly invented this city staple in 1930, though it didn't originally include cheese.
What is the cheesesteak?
This is a FEMA signed document that states USACE can proceed to perform specific work under a MA; may include personnel, resource movement, and duty stations.
What is a Mission Assignment Task Order (MATO)?
We learned this week that the National Flood Fight Materials Center is located here.
Where is Rock Island?
This is a group of nine legislative authorities under which USACE can plan, design, and implement certain types of water resources projects without additional project specific congressional authorization.
What is the Continuing Authorities Program (CAP)?
ESF
What is Emergency Support Function?
In 1943, new owner Bob Carpenter, Jr. rebranded this team the Blue Jays.
This name lasted until 1949. What are the Philadelphia Phillies?
This is the one element in a MA that can never be altered.
What is the Statement of Work?
We learned this week that, in addition to construction of a sill in the Mississippi River and providing drinking water treatment plants revers osmosis systems, the New Orleans District mitigated the impacts of the salt wedge by doing this third activity
What is barging water?
Under this authority, USACE may grant permission for another party to alter a Civil Works project upon a determination that the alteration proposed will not be injurious to the public interest and will not impair the usefulness or purpose of the Civil Works project.
What is Section 408?
RSF
What is Recovery Support Function?
Born on November 12, 1929, at Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, this actress became Princess of Monaco in 1856.
Who is Grace Kelly?
While no longer required by FEMA, this document is important to USACE as it officially establishes an end date for charging against a specific MA.
What is a Physical Close Out Memo?
We learned this week that think, plan, move, execute and deliver is know as this.
What is leaning forward?
This section of WRDA allows for the Corps to provide planning, design, and construction assistance for water and sewer related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects for local communities throughout the country.
What is Section 219?
IMAT
What is Incident Management Assistant Team?
You can see pieces of Einstein's brain, a malignant tumor removed from President Grover Cleveland, a piece of John Wilkes Booth's thorax, a 9-foot long human colon, and a corpse that turned into soap at this location.
What is The Mütter Museum?
This person always decides when, whether, and to which agency a MA is issued to.
Who is the FEMA Federal Approving Officer (or FEMA Operations Section Chief)?
We learned this week that this engineer, revered by the Corps, spent time constructing Fort. Mifflin.
Who is Francois Louis Tesseidre de Fleury,
Known as Section 165, this is a pilot program allows for USACE to fully fund small water resources projects for these type of communities.
What are small or disadvantaged?