General requirements.
18 C.F.R. § 12.20
in effectEffective: 2024-07-01(a) Unless provided with a written exemption pursuant to § 12.21, every applicant or licensee must develop and file with the Regional Engineer an emergency action plan and appendices, verified in accordance with § 12.13.
(b) The emergency action plan must be:
(1) Developed in consultation and cooperation with appropriate Federal, state, and local agencies responsible for public health and safety; and
(2) Designed to provide early warning to upstream and downstream inhabitants, property owners, operators of water-related facilities, recreational users, and other persons in the vicinity who might be affected by a project emergency as defined in § 12.3(b)(9).
Source: eCFRURL: https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2024-07-01/title-18.xmlFetched: 7/26/2026
