﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Columbia Center: About-&gt;Mission</title><link>http://www.crgsc.org/About/Mission.aspx</link><description>Site updates from the Columbia Regional Geospatial Service Center.</description><copyright>All rights reserved.</copyright><ttl>5</ttl><item><title>Mission</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 2em; line-height: 1; font-weight: bold; margin=right: 0.1em;'&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;he Columbia Regional Geospatial Service Center (The Columbia Center), established in 2005 by Congress, is the national model for a growing network of regional centers, delivering the most up-to-date geospatial information and tools for regional support with:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Emergency planning and response&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Economic development&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Natural resource management&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Columbia Center provides backup &lt;a href="/About/Default.aspx"&gt;services&lt;/a&gt;, data storage and redundancy to other regional centers, and serves as a conduit between local, state and federal entities.&lt;/p&gt;
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