Inland Navigation System Planning The Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway (2001) / Chapter Skim
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U.S. Federal and Corps of Engineers Water Resources Planning Guidelines
U.S. Federal and Corps of Engineers Water Resources Planning Guidelines
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in the committee's examination of the Corps' draft Upper Mississippi-~linois Waterway System navigation feasibility study, it is appropriate to begin with a review and critique of the P&G, a document that has remained unchanged since 1983. Particular attention is given to the federal objective, environmental quality objectives, advanced analytical methods and datasets, and the treatment of uncertainty in formulating and evaluating project alternatives.
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The Kennedy Administration, acting on a 1960 recommendation of the Senate Select Committee on Water Resources, further revised guidance for water project planning and evaluation by preparing Policies, Standards and Procedures in the Formulation, Evaluation, and Review of Plans for Use and Development of Water and Related Land Resources, published in ~ 962 as Senate Document 97, 87th Congress, Second Session. The Water Resources Planning Act of ~ 965 implemented a number of recommendations of the Senate Select Committee, including establishment of the Water Resources Council (WRC)
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Other Social Effects. The Principles and Guidelines directed the Corps to include among alternative plans, one that maximizes NED consistent with environmental constraints, and others that reduce NED benefits in order to address other federal, state, local, and international concerns.
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An inventory of existing conditions should be used as the baseline, and future conditions should reflect national and regional projections of income, output, and other relevant information published by federal agencies (insofar as the agency forecasts are not intended to be projections or if they do not track the observed data since the forecasts were made, the Corps should develop their own forecasts, using methods recommended in Chapter 5 of this report)
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increments that do not provide net NED benefits may be included, except in the NED plan, if they are cost-effective measures for addressing specific concerns. Considerable guidance is provided by the Principles and Guidelines that affect the content of alternative plans and how certain elements of alternatives are to be treated.
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Step 4 - Evaluate alternative plans. The P&G outlines a 10-step evaluation procedure for estimating NED benefits of inland navigation projects (Sec.
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of Engineers Water Resources Planning Guidelines Identify commodity Wpes Identify study areas | Determine current cost | | Determine current | of alternative movement | | commodity flow I T Determine fixture cost of Forecast potential waterway Determine fixture cost of I alternative modes l I traffic _ ~ I waterway use l Determine current cost of waterway use Determine waterway use with and without project Compute benefit FIGURE 3.1 The 10 Steps for Evaluating Alternative Plans.
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Stating Environmental Quality Objectives The first limitation is inadequate guidance on implementing operational the federal objective on environmental quality in the setting of the UMR-TWW study. Agencies are directed to formulate an NED plan, including the cost of mitigating adverse environmental effects not accounted for in the NED account.
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Environmental improvements not just the mitigation of incremental environmental damages should also be examined. Advanced Analytical Methods and Datasets A second limitation of the Principles and Guidelines is the failure to provide updated guidance on advanced techniques for forecasting commodity flows, predicting modal choice for shipment of commodities, and forecasting waterway traffic levels.
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That committee recommended that the federal Principles and Guidelines "be thoroughly reviewed and modified to incorporate contemporary analytical techniques and changes in public values and federal agency programs" (NRC, 1999a; see also NRC, 20001. The 1994 federal Interagency Floodplain Management Review Committee (IFMRC)
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