Company Will Help City Plan for and Maximize Resilience Against Future Disasters
FAIRFAX, Va., Feb.聽24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --聽The City of Columbia, South Carolina, has awarded global consulting and digital services provider ICF (NASDAQ:ICFI) a small three-year contract to develop 欧博娱乐 city's first-ever disaster management Community Development Block Grant Mitigation Action Plan (CDBG-Mitigation).
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