Please remember, if your project has both a recreation and environmental stewardship function, then citations, partnerships, interpretive contacts, and special events should be entered under OMBIL  Recreation.

Under the Interpretive Contacts section, please refer to the definition for unique messages (indirect contacts): A unique message is no direct contact by Corps personnel, i.e. PSA's, bulletin board announcements, radio and TV interviews, and imprinted messages sponsored by the project, etc. Do NOT report numbers of people or the number of times a message is run, but rather, the total number of unique messages or events. Exhibits or booths at large events such as boat shows and fairs where no or very brief contact was made with the exhibit or staff should also be reported as one (1) indirect (unique message) contact. Since this category is counting events and not people, the number in this field should normally be fairly small. At this time, please treat social media messages such as Facebook, Twitter, Lake websites, etc. the same as unique messages.

For Recreation PSAs formerly identified as having a Cooperative Management Park Lease or Agreement in OMBIL, that indicator has been removed. No action in OMBIL needed by the field.

For those projects that split, combined, or added new PSAs, please make sure the facility information is correct for each PSA. At this time, there should not be any Corps Managed PSAs showing a marina as a facility.

AT the end of this fiscal year, the OMBIL NRM Users Group will need 3 new members (one representing NAD, one representing SWD, and one at large member). An announcement will come out in the future through the appropriate chains, so if you are interested or know someone that would be a good fit for the team, keep this in mind. A group charter is posted on the OMBIL webpage. Click on Users Manuals and Reference Material. https://ombil.usace.ar my.mil/MainFrames/BusinessFrame.htm

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