---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 C.F.R. § 12.20"
title: "18"
number: "12.20"
heading: "General requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/18/12.20"
---

# §12.20. General requirements.

- (a) Unless provided with a written exemption pursuant to [§ 12.21](/cfr/18/12.21.md), every applicant or licensee must develop and file with the Regional Engineer an emergency action plan and appendices, verified in accordance with [§ 12.13](/cfr/18/12.13.md).
- (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)](/cfr/18/12.3.md?p=b-9).

## Notes

### Amendments

[Order 122, 46 FR 9036, Jan. 28, 1981, as amended at 87 FR 1515, Jan. 11, 2022]

### Authority

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 791a-825r; 42 U.S.C. 7101-7352.

### Source

Source: Order 122, 46 FR 9036, Jan. 28, 1981, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Order 122, 46 FR 9036, Jan. 28, 1981, as amended at 87 FR 1515, Jan. 11, 2022]