New Directions in Water Resources Planning for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1999) / Chapter Skim
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With passage of the federal Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (WRDA 'S6) , however, matching fiends from local sponsors were required for most Corps projects.
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The committee was requested to consider the necessity for a review of the main document that guides federal water planning, the Principles and Guidelines for Water and RelatecI Land Resources Implementation Studies, which were approved In New Directions in Water Resources Planning
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The P&G should be updated to eliminate biases or disincentives that work against nonstructural approaches, and to ensure that the benefits of flood damages avoided by nonstructural projects are consistently and uniformly considered. In summary, the committee recommends that the federal Principles and, Guidelines be thoroughly reviewed and modified to incorporate contemporary New Directions in Water Resources Planning
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The use of such hydrologic wits for planning can help account for downstream effects of flood damage reduction projects, for example, or provide a system to account for cumulative effects of Corps projects. Most of the nation's large river basins cross state lines, suggesting the need for federal involvement in data storage and management, hydrologic modeling, and analysis of systemwide impacts.
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To further help improve the planning process, the Corps should be given more extensive authority to engage in regional planamg activities that include multiple water projects, such as In the Upper Mississippi River basin or the Everglades. Such regional activities win allow the Corps to coordinate project planning and construction more efficiently and at lower cost, schedule its contractors' resources and timetables more efficiently, and generally reduce instances of administrative duplication.
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The committee recognizes that the tools currently available are inadequate for the Corps' purposes and that a substantial, sustained effort wig be required to develop a standardized set of tools, including benefit-transfer models and programs, to help quantify environmental benefits and costs associated with its restoration, flood damage reflection, anal navigation projects. Water management responsibilities at the federal level are greatly fragmente~ with 34 federal agencies involved in some manner of water planning, development, or regulation.
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The committee recommends that the benefits of flood damages avoided be included in the benefit-cost analysis of alB flood damage reduction projects including an nonstructural projects-and that these benefits be calculated in a uniform and consistent fashion. There appears to be a large and increasing demand for Corps-sponsored nonstructural flood damage reduction projects.
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As a federal steward of the nation's water resources, the Corps promotes projects in the national interest and constructs projects consistent with the nation's economic and environmental statutes and goals. Not only does this require thorough and sometimes lengthy studies, but these larger concerns may conflict wad local plans and projects.
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