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Executive Summary
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... Many examples are available of successful efforts at federal, state, and local levels to mitigate specific subsidence problems. The efforts include public information programs, mapping programs, regulation of resource development, land-use management and building codes, market-based methods, and insurance programs.
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... Geological Survey, Bureau of Mines, Bureau of Reclamation, and Agricultural Research Service, and on engineering methods by the Federal Highway Administration, Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, Federal Housing Administration, and Soil Conservation Service. And third, although many types of mitigation methods are in use in the United States, studies of their cost-effectiveness would facilitate choices by decisionmakers.
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Key Terms

  • engineering methods
  • resource removal
  • local levels
  • federal highway
  • public information

  • damage prevention
  • annual costs
  • damage exceed
  • removal commonly
  • mapping programs

  • geological survey
  • federal housing
  • highway administration
  • bow map
  • locally susceptible

  • mitigate specific
  • particularly state
  • efforts include
  • housing administration
  • include public

  • incomplete understanding
  • soil conservation
  • resulting flooding
  • catastrophic collapse
  • emergency management

  • legal recovery
  • building codes
  • win resource
  • subsidence magnitudes
  • resource development


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