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Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Restructured Upper Mississippi-Illinois River Waterway Feasibility Study (2004) / Chapter Skim
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... Since a previous NRC (2001) review, the nature of the Corps feasibility study has broadened beyond the need for transportation improvements, and the restructured feasibility study takes a more holistic approach toward considering the relations between environment, navigation, and the floodplain.
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... a spatial equilibrium model and the ESSENCE model, both developed to help forecast future grain shipment levels, transport modes, and costs on the UMR-IWW; (2) managing waterway congestion on the UMR-IW~T; (3)
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... Nonstructural measures such as scheduling systems, systems of tradable arrival slots, or a contingent feeas challenging as their implementation may be could be implemented instead of extending locks or could be used in combination with lock extensions. Furthermore, such traffic management measures would be necessary to address reductions in capacity that would occur in the event that lock extensions were constructed.
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... Ecological restoration projects in downstream states, which have smaller federal land holdings than states in the upper basin, require greater cost-sharing responsibilities from local sponsors. This is an analytical concern because the prospective benefits of these cost-shared restoration pro
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... The Corps should thus identify specific instances in which federal cost-sharing rules are likely to restrict or preclude implementation of environmental restoration projects and nonstructural measures.
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