New Directions in Water Resources Planning for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1999) / Chapter Skim
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While the P&G have not changed, water resource programs and analytical techniques have evolved considerably over the past 15 years. The Corps' current work program includes a complex mixture of structural and nonstructural elements designed to reduce damages from floods, as well as restore the natural structure and processes of aquatic ecosystems in others.
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If neither the administration nor Confess soon begins a new interagency effort to update these procedures, the Corps should take it upon itself to ~ new planning procedures that reflect current conditions. The Corps is currently moving in that direction through its ~7~ revisions of the "Guidance for Conducting Civil Works Plar~nina Studies." The Science Advisory Board of the EPA recently called attention to the fact that no existing federal program systematically addresses the highest categories of ecological risks, such as hydrologic alteration, habitat conversion, turbidity/ sedimentation, habitat fragmentation, and introduction of exotic species.
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As this report has explained, however, further reductions in the time and cost of Corps planning studies do not necessarily result In a better planning process. The Corps plam ing process takes as long as it does, at least in part, due to federal, state, and local regulations, including local sponsor input, and the Corps' own stringent requirements.
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An executive-level group to formulate national water policy and to coordinate and promote interagency collaboration should thus be created. Initial tasks for this group could include coordinating information and analytical techniques across federal water planning agencies, as well as revising the P&G.
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Work should proceed toward the development of a standard set of accounting units and easily applied computer models to quantify benefits and costs for all Corps projects. It should be recognized that but for the larger projects, it may be infeasible, due to time and financial constraints, to undertake major original studies.
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84 New Directions in Water Resources Planning
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