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  2. Engineered materials arrestor system - Wikipedia

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    EMAS bed after being run over by landing gear. An engineered materials arrestor system, engineered materials arresting system (EMAS), or arrester bed [1] is a bed of engineered materials built at the end of a runway to reduce the severity of the consequences of an aircraft running off the end of a runway.

  3. List of California area codes - Wikipedia

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    The state of California was divided into three numbering plan areas (NPAs) with distinct area codes: 213, 415, and 916, for the southern, central, and northern parts of the state, respectively. [ 1 ] In 1949, Oakland, CA, received the fifth regional dial switching center for Operator Toll Dialing in the nation, [ 2 ] which set the stage for ...

  4. List of counties in California - Wikipedia

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    County FIPS code [8] County seat [9] Est. [9] Formed from Etymology [10] General Law or Charter [6] Population (2023) [11] Area [9] Map Alameda County: 001: Oakland: 1853: Contra Costa and Santa Clara: The oak and other trees, once abundant in the region; alameda is Spanish for "avenue shaded by trees" or "cottonwood grove". Charter 1,622,188: ...

  5. List of United States INCITS codes by county - Wikipedia

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    Autauga County Alabama: 01003 Baldwin County: 01005 Barbour County: 01007 Bibb County: 01009 Blount County: 01011 Bullock County: 01013 Butler County: 01015 Calhoun County: 01017 Chambers County: 01019 Cherokee County: 01021 Chilton County: 01023 Choctaw County: 01025 Clarke County: 01027 Clay County: 01029 Cleburne County: 01031 Coffee County ...

  6. List of Superfund sites in California - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Superfund sites in California designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up ...

  7. List of largest census-designated places in California

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    Location of California in the United States. California is the most populous and third largest U.S. state by area, located on the West Coast of the United States. According to the 2020 United States Census, California's population is 39,538,223 and has 155,858.33 square miles (403,671.2 km 2) of land. [1]

  8. Los Angeles County Department of Public Works - Wikipedia

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    In 1977, the County Engineer Department moved to the corner of 5th Street and Vermont Ave., Los Angeles until the merge of the three departments. At that time the department was called the Department of County Engineer-Facilities. In 1988, the department issued a demolition permit to tear down the historic Golden Gate Theater in East Los Angeles.

  9. Area code 559 - Wikipedia

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    Area code 559 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for the central San Joaquin Valley in central California. The numbering plan area includes the counties of Fresno , Madera , Kings , and Tulare , an area largely coextensive with the Fresno and Visalia - Porterville metropolitan areas.