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Formerly Used Defense Sites Program Fact Sheet

Press Operations — Mon, 15 May 2023 17:18:00 GMT

During the past 200 years, some activities supporting military readiness resulted in the need for environmental cleanup within the United States and its territories. The Department of Defense, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are committed to protecting human health and the environment and improving public safety by cleaning up these properties.

Sustainability Overview

Press Operations — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 18:19:00 GMT

For nearly two decades, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has been seeking balance and synergy between natural systems and human development activities when it comes to its missions, facilities and operations. This includes working to ensure that activities do not negatively impact the resource needs of future generations.

Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) Notification and Safety Education Initiative

Press Operations — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 17:35:00 GMT

For more than 200 years, our military forces participated in maneuvers and live-fire training and testing on properties throughout the United States in preparation to defend our national interests.

Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) Geographic Information System (GIS) Reference Sheet

Press Operations — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 16:42:00 GMT

The Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) Geographic Information System (GIS) serves as a helpful resource to provide a general location of FUDS properties located throughout the United States. The specific GIS coordinates portrayed on FUDS GIS maps do not reflect exact project locations. The coordinates serve as a general geographic reference point. This reference sheet explains the terminology used in FUDS GIS and how it relates to FUDS projects.

Building Resilience

Press Operations — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 14:29:00 GMT

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is contributing to the Nation’s resilience to climate change, more frequent and more powerful natural hazards, man-made adverse events, changing conditions, and increasing uncertainty through our planning, engineering design, construction, operations and maintenance, and research and development activities.

Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP)

Press Operations — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:43:00 GMT

The Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) was initiated in 1974 to identify, investigate and clean up or control sites through the United States contaminated as a result of the nation’s early atomic weapons and energy programs. Activities were performed by the Manhattan Engineer District or under the Atomic Energy Commission, prior to the Department of Energy being formed.

Military Munitions Support Services

Press Operations — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:35:00 GMT

Military Munitions Support Services or M2S2 encompasses the full spectrum of work performed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to address unexploded ordnance, discarded military munitions, munitions constituents, and recovered chemical warfare material during military munitions response, operational range sustainment, and construction support activities.

Environmental Stewardship Program Statistics

Press Operations — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:30:00 GMT

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ environmental stewardship program protects, preserves, and restores significant ecological resources at Civil Works projects across the U.S. It contributes to the quality of American life by managing and conserving natural resources consistent with ecosystem management principles, and provides "islands of green" for many major metropolitan areas.

Environmental Programs

Press Operations — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:16:00 GMT

The Army Corps of Engineers continually partners with other federal and state agencies, non-governmental organizations and academic institutions to find innovative solutions to challenges that affect everyone: sustainability, climate change, endangered species, environmental cleanup, ecosystem restoration and more.