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Gary A. LoewChief, Civil Works Programs Integration

U.S. Army Corps of EngineersDecember 1, 2006

Gary A. LoewChief, Civil Works Programs Integration

U.S. Army Corps of EngineersDecember 1, 2006


The Army Civil Works Mission The Army Civil Works Mission The Army Civil Works Mission Provide the Nation with Responsive ...Provide the Nation with Responsive ...

Development & Management ofDevelopment & Management ofWater Resources InfrastructureWater Resources Infrastructure

Protection, Restoration & Protection, Restoration & Management of Environmental Management of Environmental ResourcesResources

Disaster Response & RecoveryDisaster Response & Recovery Engineering & Technical ServicesEngineering & Technical Services

in an environmentally, economically and technically sound mannerin an environmentally, economically and technically sound manner


The Civil Works Mission: The Civil Works Mission: The Civil Works Mission: Water Resources InfrastructureWater Resources Infrastructure

Shore Protection

••4,330 sites at 456 projects4,330 sites at 456 projects••375 M visits/year375 M visits/year••$15 B to local economies$15 B to local economies

••153 projects supply cities153 projects supply cities••Including Wash. DC areaIncluding Wash. DC area

••75 projects, 20,720 MW capacity75 projects, 20,720 MW capacity••3% of total US electric energy3% of total US electric energy••$900M in annual power sales$900M in annual power sales

••12,000 miles of inland waterway12,000 miles of inland waterway••926 harbors926 harbors••2.5 B tons of commerce/year2.5 B tons of commerce/year••250 M cubic yards dredged/yr250 M cubic yards dredged/yr

••383 reservoirs383 reservoirs••8,500 miles of levee8,500 miles of levee••Prevent $6 in damage for Prevent $6 in damage for every $1 investedevery $1 invested

••97 projects protect 284 miles of 97 projects protect 284 miles of shorelineshoreline••Use of dredged material Use of dredged material

from navigation projectsfrom navigation projects

Navigation

Hydropower Water Supply Recreation


The Civil Works Mission: The Civil Works Mission: The Civil Works Mission: Environmental ResourcesEnvironmental Resources

Regulation ofWaterways& Wetlands

Formerly Used SitesRemedial Action

Program (FUSRAP)

Ecosystem Restoration • WRDA 86 Sec 1135

• Aquatic Ecosystems• Everglades• Coastal Louisiana

• 11.7 M acres at Corps projects

• Compliance w 70+ environmental laws

• Cleanup of sites with low level radioactive waste

– Transferred from DOE to Corps in 1998

•Sec 10, River & Harbor Act 1899•Sec. 404, Clean Water Act 1972•About 90,000 permit cases processed/year•Actions permitted on 21,000 acres; in return, 43,000 acres of wetland restoration or creation required (2003)

EnvironmentalStewardship


The Civil Works Mission: The Civil Works Mission: Emergency ResponseEmergency Response

DeployableTacticalOperations Centers

Structural Safety

Temporary Housing Debris Removal Emergency Power

Potable Water & Ice


Appropriationby Business Program

AppropriationAppropriationby Business Programby Business Program

Navigation$2,060 M38%

Emergency Management$5 M 0.09%

Flood & StormDamage Reduction

$1,512 M 28%

EnvironmentRegulatory,& FUSRAP$908 M17%

Hydropower

$288 M 5%

Recreation

$275 M 5%

Exec. Dir. & Mgm

t.

$154 M 3%

Water Supply $2 M 0.04%

FY06 Total = $5,383 MWithout 1% across the board rescission

Other $179 M

3%


Water Resources – the SituationWater Resources Water Resources –– the Situationthe Situation

••Nation faces large and Nation faces large and growing water resources growing water resources challenges:challenges:

•• Population pressures Population pressures

•• Changes in national Changes in national priorities and valuespriorities and values

••Availability of water will Availability of water will be significant factor in be significant factor in U.S. economic prosperity U.S. economic prosperity and quality of life.and quality of life.


Challenge: Competing Water UsesChallenge: Competing Water UsesChallenge: Competing Water Uses

Aquatic EcosystemRestoration

Flood & CoastalStorm Damage

Reduction

Hydropower Recreation

Navigation Water Supply

Fish & Wildlife Indian Treaty Rights


Challenge: Aging Water Resources Infrastructure

Challenge: Aging Water Resources Challenge: Aging Water Resources Infrastructure Infrastructure

• Half of locks 50+ years old• Investments in water resources infrastructure declining in real terms

• Result: more frequent closures for repairs, decreased performance & costly delays

Crumbling lock wall, Lower Mon 3, opened in 1907 Concrete

deterioration at Chickamauga

could result in lock failure

Leaking spare miter gates, Upper Miss Lock 19


Challenge: Water Transportation System

Challenge: Water Challenge: Water Transportation SystemTransportation System

•Demands on Marine Transportation System to double by 2020

•System can barely accommodate current traffic

•Aging infrastructure

•Deferred operation and maintenance

•Current backlog of $9 B of improvements.


Challenge: Flood-Prone AreasChallenge:Challenge: FloodFlood--Prone AreasProne Areas

•Development continues to increase

•Rapid growth in at-risk coastal areas

•Investments decreased by ~70% in real terms over past 3 decades.

•Over $15 billion awaiting construction

Greenville, MS, Matfield


Challenge: Environmental Sustainability

Challenge:Challenge: Environmental Environmental SustainabilitySustainability

Riverlands Demonstration Area atMel Price Lock & Dam (L&D 26)

Alton, IL

•Balance between economic development, environmental stewardship

•Water quality threatened on 8% of nation’s rivers and streams

•Corps has authority and programs for ecosystem restoration.

•South Florida example


Challenge: Water Supply Infrastructure

Challenge: WaterChallenge: Water Supply Supply InfrastructureInfrastructure

• Water supply needs increasing, supplies are not.

• Demands near or above safe yields of supplies.

• Water supply has always been local responsibility, but Federal role can assist.


Challenge-Past FundingChallengeChallenge--Past FundingPast Funding

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Challenge--Future Funding?ChallengeChallenge----Future Funding?Future Funding?

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Alliances with State Water ManagersAlliances with State Water ManagersAlliances with State Water Managers

• Recognize State primacy for water rights• Become primary Federal support for State-wide

water planning• Provide technical assistance, data, watershed

analysis• Bring cooperative solutions to water conflicts that

avoid litigation or heavy-handed regulation


GUIDING PRINCIPLES:

• State & local governments have primary jurisdiction over water resources.

• Our goal is to support State & local leaders in meeting their challenges.

• We want to develop partnerships in planning, managing and integrating

• We can offer expertise with balancing conflicting requirements.

What Can We Offer Our Partners?What Can We Offer Our Partners?What Can We Offer Our Partners?

•• Engineering, scientific Engineering, scientific and environmental and environmental expertise to assist with expertise to assist with local projects.local projects.

•• Watershed/systems Watershed/systems planningplanning

•• Coordination of Coordination of sustainable sustainable development on development on regional scaleregional scale

•• Avoidance of Avoidance of duplication and duplication and conflicting projectsconflicting projects


Watershed ApproachWatershed ApproachWatershed Approach

• New roles – not necessarily projectsfacilitatorconvenorintegrator

• Systems view• Watershed or basin

scale of analysis• Balanced objectives • Innovative solutions,

structural/nonstructural• Focus on results


Interaction with States:Interaction with States:Interaction with States:

• Currently active associations with ~30 states:TN MS WA, OR, MT, IDIN IL, IO, MN, MO HIOH IL AKKY IO, IL, MO FLPA LA GAMI MO NCWV WA NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, ..OH ND OKTX CA


Interaction with States:TEXAS

Interaction with States:Interaction with States:TEXASTEXAS

• Regular interaction with the Texas Water Development Board to seek means to support the State 50-year Water Plan.

• Studied all USACE reservoirs in the State for the potential to provide additional water supply from existing reservoirs

• Found potential to meet 10-30% of 50-year needs from existing reservoirs

• Currently conducting reevaluation studies of selected reservoirs


Interaction with States:Several States

Interaction with States:Interaction with States:Several StatesSeveral States

• ‘Section 314’ Program enables states to fund labor/positions at Corps regulatory offices to streamline/expedite permit actions.

• About 48 positions funded or provided nationwide. Many are state employees detailed to Corps offices

• Corps offices provide regulatory training to state and local governments


Interaction with States:KENTUCKY

Interaction with States:Interaction with States:KENTUCKYKENTUCKY

• Kentucky interested in pursuing non-project specific watershed studies on selected watersheds.


Interaction with States:MISSISSIPPI

Interaction with States:Interaction with States:MISSISSIPPIMISSISSIPPI

• Quarterly meetings:– Upper Miss River navigation and ecosystem

sustainability– Upper Miss River environmental management

program– Watershed strategic planning


Interaction with States:IOWA, ILLINOIS, MISSOURI

Interaction with States:Interaction with States:IOWA, ILLINOIS, MISSOURIIOWA, ILLINOIS, MISSOURI

• Annual Tri-State summit to discuss water resources development activities that are integral to states’ economic development initiatives


Interaction with States:MISSOURI

Interaction with States:Interaction with States:MISSOURIMISSOURI

• Series of public open houses to gather input on a proposed framework to establish a Missouri River Recovery Implementation Committee (MRRIC).

• Next step (of Federal/State working group) is to revise framework and solicit applications from basin stakeholders and draft formal charter for MRRIC.

• Agency Coordination Team prioritizing mitigation site development and operations


Interaction with States:WASHINGTON

Interaction with States:Interaction with States:WASHINGTONWASHINGTON

• Coordinating with State on their Water Supply Initiative

• Coordinate with Governors’ offices of WA, OR, MT and ID on operation of Columbia River Power System and fish mitigation measures.


Partnerships – Key to SuccessPartnerships Partnerships –– Key to SuccessKey to Success

We will:• Work with local or regional watershed

councils to develop watershed management plans

• Facilitate discussion among stakeholders with complementary or competing water needs

• Partner with other Federal agencies to address regional water issues

• Provide technical assistance to States and local communities

• Share data and information• Improve watershed models in

cooperation with others


Desired End StateDesired End StateDesired End State

• Water collaboratively managed• Systems principles balance

economic, social and environmental objectives

• Purposes achieved:• World class navigation system• Economic losses and human

suffering from flooding reduced• Environment protected and

restored• State and local governments

manage resources in harmony with, and supported by, Federal government


Collaborative PlanningCollaborative PlanningCollaborative Planning

• Planning studies (recon through feasibility) completed in three years

• Watershed plans - Components to be implemented by Corps and other agencies

Plan Selection:• Compare full range of alternatives across all four Principles

and Guidelines accounts.• Plan may be candidate if, on balance, net beneficial effects. • May select any one of candidate plans • Must identify National Economic Development (NED) plan for

comparisonAdaptive Management: • Take into account uncertainties about performance that exist

when decisions made to undertake project


Corps or Local Sponsor MaintainsCorps or Local Sponsor Maintains

Steps to a Civil Works ProjectSteps to a Civil Works ProjectSteps to a Civil Works Project

Corps Designs & BuildsCorps Designs & Builds

Congress Authorizes & AppropriatesCongress Authorizes & Appropriates

Corps Recon. Determines Fed. InterestCorps Recon. Determines Fed. Interest

Congress Passes ResolutionCongress Passes Resolution

Constituent Identifies ProblemConstituent Identifies Problem

Construction

Study

Corps Assesses FeasibilityCorps Assesses Feasibility

Corps or Local Sponsor MaintainsCorps or Local Sponsor Maintains


Study Process:Reconnaissance Phase

Study Process:Study Process:Reconnaissance PhaseReconnaissance Phase

• Preliminary determination that a problem and at least one potential solution warrant Federal participation

• Support of non-Federal sponsor• 6 to 12 months• 100% Federally

funded


Study Process:Feasibility PhaseStudy Process:Study Process:

Feasibility PhaseFeasibility Phase

• Feasibility cost sharing agreement and management plan for feasibility study

• Cost share 50 / 50• Complete in 3-4 years• Recommend plan for

authorization


Project AuthorizationAnd Funding By Congress

Project AuthorizationProject AuthorizationAnd Funding By CongressAnd Funding By Congress

• Project Authorization: Bi-annual Water Resources Development Act (WRDA)

• Federal Portion of Construction Funding Provided by Congress via Appropriations Acts


Project Cooperation AgreementProject Cooperation Agreement

• Legally binding contract• Signed by non-Federal Government and Army

Corps of Engineers• Fully describes responsibilities of both parties• Fully describes project and cost sharing


Construction Cost SharingConstruction Cost Sharing

• Based on Federal law• Varies by project purpose• Generally: non-Federal

sponsor provides lands and cash to equal 35% to 50% of project costs


Environmental Operating PrinciplesEnvironmental Operating PrinciplesEnvironmental Operating Principles

1. Environmental Sustainability. 2. Interdependence of life and physical

environment. 3. Balance and synergy among human

development and natural systems 4. Corporate responsibility and

accountability 5. Assessment & mitigation of cumulative

impacts 6. Shared integrated scientific, economic &

social knowledge base 7. Respect for views of interested

individuals & groups

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