National Plan to Achieve Maritime Domain Awareness. NSPD 41/HSPD 13 Main >> Supporting Plans >> Maritime Domain Awareness The National Plan to Achieve Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) (PDF, 33 pages - 472 KB) is one of eight plans developed in support of the National Strategy for Maritime Security, as directed by National Security Presidential Directive-41/Homeland Security Presidential Directive-13. Identifying Threats as Early and Distant from Our Shores as Possible This plan outlines the national priorities for achieving maritime domain awareness, drawing on the insights and expertise of a range of federal agencies and departments that came together to create this plan.
It includes near-term and long-term objectives, required program and resource implications, and recommendations for organizational or policy changes. Maritime domain awareness is the effective understanding of anything associated with the global maritime domain that could impact the United States’ security, safety, economy, or environment. Recommendations Next Steps. Brown's Disinterest in State Parks | Seven Days | The Weekly News Roundup. When Jerry Brown was mayor of Oakland, his limited attention span was on full display. He focused intensely on his 10K plan, his two charter schools, and crime in Oakland, but ignored numerous other problems. His second go-round as governor has been no different.
Some issues receive his full attention, including his tax measure and the California bullet train. But others get the short shrift. One of the prime examples has been California's once-proud state park system. In his first year in office, Brown proposed closing seventy state parks in what was purported to be a budget-cutting move. But close observers quickly noted that the parks-closure plan would only save the state about $22 million — a paltry sum when considering that California's general fund budget is more than $90 billion. The seventy parks got a reprieve for one year, but then were facing closure again in 2012, even though the governor's plan still would have done little to address the state's budget woes. A New Vision for Alameda Point | Eco Watch | The Bay Area Environment Column.
Since 2006, the US Department of Veterans Affairs has been planning to build a massive new complex on the northwest edge of Alameda Point, featuring an outpatient clinic, a national cemetery, and a conservation management office. And six years of complex negotiations with the City of Alameda, the US Navy, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service are moving toward an endgame.
But the talks have been environmentally sensitive because the seven hundred acres of former Naval Air Station land in question contain thriving wetlands and are home to one of the most important nesting sites of the endangered California Least Tern. The Navy and Veterans Affairs are anxious to present a final plan to the public, but critics are raising questions about the closed-door nature of the negotiations, the thoroughness of the environmental assessment, and, most critically, about the overall suitability of building a 150,000-square-foot facility at that site. Smart Growth in the Burbs. Suburban cities don't often embrace transit-oriented development and eco-friendly growth, but the City of Concord is glowing with pride these days over its highly touted plan for the shuttered Concord Naval Weapons Station. The plan, approved last month by the Concord City Council, is a model of enlightened development.
More than two-thirds of the land will remain open space, and the project will feature transit-oriented jobs, housing, and a new CSU East Bay campus next to a BART station. It will also include compact, walkable neighborhoods clustered around shops and transit, green building standards, affordable housing, and jobs for local residents. There's also a lot of pride about the way the plan was developed: an open process involving hundreds of residents in dozens of meetings and a broadly representative community advisory council.
"Things got defined during the public process rather than in some back room," said Ron Brown, executive director of Save Mount Diablo. The pollinator crisis: What's best for bees. 479164a. American Geotechnical. Mr. Axten, co-founder of American Geotechnical, has an extensive qualified and skilled background as a civil/geotechnical engineer. His professional practice includes the fields of soil engineering, geology, foundation engineering, structural engineering, materials engineering, and hydrology. His technical responsibilities have included all phases of logistics, cost estimating, drilling, sampling, field and laboratory testing, engineering analyses, development of design criteria and construction recommendations, and resident engineering.
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