USACE GEEZER BRIEF 2001

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The Army Civil Works Program
Serving the Nation And Its Defense
Presentation to California Marine Affairs
Navigation Conference Mr. Steven L. Stockton,
Deputy Director of Civil Works HQ U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers 9 February 2006
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Water Resources the Situation

• Nation faces large and growing water resources
  challenges.
• Population pressures, changes in national
  priorities and values will fundamentally change
  how we approach water resources problems.
• Availability of water will likely be single most
  significant factor in our economic prosperity and
  quality of life in this century.

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Corps Role inWater Resources

• Ensuring the Nations ability to
• deliver economic goods and services, while
• protecting and sustaining our environment/ecosyste
  ms.
• Addressing water resource issues in a rational,
  systematic and disciplined way
• Tailoring projects to specific physical,
  economic, and environmental context
• Offering hands-on experience
• Scientific engineering/economic/ ecological
• Governmental political/public policy

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Our Navigation Mission Vital to Trade and to
Our Economy
Anacortes
52 harbors coastal, inland, Great Lakes -
handled over 10 million tons each in 2005 While
196 inland waterway locks and dams support over
600 million tons of commerce annually
Seattle
Tacoma
Two Harbors
Portland
Portland
Duluth/Superior
Boston
Detroit
New Haven
Pittsburgh
Chicago
New York/NJ
Ashtabula
Lower Delaware River (9 harbors)
Indiana Hbr
Richmond
Cleveland
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Oakland
Newport News
Huntington
Norfolk
St. Louis
Los Angeles
Long Beach
Memphis
Million Tons
Charleston
Over 100
Baton Rouge
Savannah
Pascagoula
Lake Charles
Jacksonville
50 - 100
Houston
Mobile
Texas City
25 - 50
Tampa
Honolulu
Plaquemines
Freeport
Port Arthur
10 - 25
New Orleans
Beaumont
Matagorda
Valdez
S. Louisiana
Corpus Christi
Port Everglades
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Key Harbor Improvement Projects Funded in 06
Great Lakes System Study
Lake Washington

• 27 key deep draft harbor improvements in 06
  appropriation
• About 306 million
• Long-term investment of over 4 billion

Columbia R
Sault Ste Marie (Soo Locks)
Searsport
Boston
New York/NJ
SF Bay to Stockton
Indiana Hbr
Lwr Delaware R
Oakland 50-ft
James R
Norfolk
Ventura
Los Angeles Main Channel
Wilmington
Pascagoula
Savannah
Brunswick
Calcasieu R
DeLong Mtn Hbr
Gulfport
Houston/
Jacksonville
Nome
Kikiaola
Iberia
Galveston
Mobile
Canaveral
Texas City
Tampa
Barbers Pt
Sabine-
Anchorage
Freeport
Neches WW
St. Paul Hbr
Yakutat
St Petersburg
Port Everglades
Kaumalapau
Chignik
Corpus Christi
Akutan
Haines
Brazos Island Hbr
Sand Pt
Unalaska
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Why Its Critical Theyre Steaming to Our
Shores to Stock Our Stores
Projected Number of Annual Calls to and from
U.S. Ports by Ship TypeYear 2000-2020
160
120
Tankers
Dry Bulk
calls (thousands)
80
Containership
General Cargo
Other
40
0
year 2000
year 2010
year 2020
Source National Dredging Needs Study, USACE
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Depth-Constrained Containership Calls in 2020,
with and without Planned Harbor Projects(in
thousands of ship calls)
14.0
4.5
3.8
Pacific Coast
Harbor Projects in 2006
Under Construction
Under Study
2.5
Atlantic Coast
1.1
1.6
Under Construction/ Study for Additional Improveme
nts
Gulf Coast
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FY 2007 Budget

• Emphasizes 3 critical Corps activities.
• 1. Construction and completion of projects that
  will provide high return on the nations
  investment in commercial navigation, flood and
  storm damage reduction, and aquatic ecosystem
  restoration.
• 2. Increased funding for regulatory program to
  help protect and preserve Nations waters and
  wetlands.
• 3. Funds for Corps critical emergency
  preparedness and response mission in regular
  budget process.
• Corps focus is on assuring maintenance of
  critical infrastructure, funding high return
  studies and construction projects, and continuing
  best of other ongoing planning and construction
  efforts within available funds

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Civil Works Budget Appropriations

• FY05 FY05 FY05 FY06 FY06 FY07
• Conference Suppls. Total Approp. Budget Conferenc
  e Budget
• Construction, Gen. 1,782 63 1,845 1,637 2,372 1,5
  55
• Oper. Maint., Gen. 1,943 355 2,098 1,979 1,989 2
  ,258
• Gen. Investigations 143 143 95 164 94
• Mississippi R. Tribs. 322 6 328 270 400 278
• Regulatory 144 144 160 160 173
• Flood Coast Emerg. 0 348 348 70 0 81
• FUSRAP 164 164 140 140 130
• Gen. Expenses 166 166 162 154 164
• OASA(CW) 4 __ 4 0 4 0
• Total 4,668 772 5,440 4,513 5,383 4,733

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FY 07 BudgetPriority Projects
Columbia River Fish Mitigation
Missouri River Fish Wildlife Mitigation

• New York-New Jersey Harbor

Upper Miss.R. Side Channel Restoration

• Oakland Harbor

Olmsted Lock Dam
Sims Bayou
Navigation
Flood Damage Reduction

• Comprehensive
• Everglades
• Restoration

Environmental
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Performance Based Budgeting Which Projects Make
the Cut?

• Performance Measures Ranking Criteria
• Dam Safety
• AllBenefit/Cost Ratio, Remaining
  Benefit/Remaining Cost Ratio, Time to Complete
• Flood Damage Reduction
• People in 100-year flood plain
• Average annual damages prevented
• Property at risk in 100-year floodplain
• Navigation
• Tonnage
• Average Annual Benefits
• Environmental Restoration
• Loss prevention for significant natural resources
• Endangered Species Act other environmental
  compliance needs

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Performance Based Budgeting Modifications for
FY07

• We are NOT departing from Performance Based
  Budgeting.
• BUT
• We have enhanced it by adding additional key
  metrics to decision making efforts.
• People in 100-Year Floodplain
• Average Annual Damages
• Tonnage
• Cost/Ton
• Average Annual Benefits
• These have been added to overall Remaining
  Benefit to Remaining Cost Ratio metric in
  decision making for Flood Control and Navigation
  business lines

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Five-Year Development Plan

• Based on Presidents budget and guidance for
  Civil Works program.
• Presents 5-year plan for FY 2006-10.
• Purpose is to present informed discussion and
  decision making on program funding.
• Presents how watershed-integrated water resources
  management will be pursued.
• Performance based - discusses how funding over
  5-year period will achieve goals in Civil Works
  Strategic Plan.

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Lean Six Sigma
6S

• Corpswide business transformation initiative
• Tool to pursue expertise and organizational
  structure required to succeed
• Enhanced work environment, job satisfaction,
  productivity, efficiency and streamlined
  processes
• Identification of processes and implementation
  starts in FY06
• L6S training begins Nov 05 (leadership),
  continues with facilitators training
• Only 4-6 processes a year (due to funding
  constraints)

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Asset (Infrastructure) Management

• Presidential Executive Order 13327
• All Federal infrastructure
• Major focus area is identification of low use
  Federal facilities that may be subject to removal
  from inventory as savings objective
• Federal agencies must manage their assets in a
  sustainable manner.
• Now a major focus area of OMB oversight for all
  Federal agencies.
• OMB now grades each agency quarterly on two areas
  (progress and performance) in PMI (Presidential
  Management Initiatives).

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WRDA 02 03 04 05 06

• Civil Works projects usually authorized in Water
  Resources Development Acts (WRDAs)
• No WRDA has passed Congress since 2000
• House passed its version of WRDA 2005 Jul 14
  (vote of 406-14)
• Senate version passed Energy and Public Works
  Committee
• Hopeful for floor action, conference this year
• WRDA provisions that support improvements to
  processes
• Peer review
• Planning improvements
• Mitigation
• Technical assistance to States
• Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway
• Louisiana Coastal Area Ecosystem Restoration
• Working with Congress as they move towards WRDA
  enactment

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Challenges - Current Future

• RELATIONSHIPS
• Nation
• Congress
• Stakeholders Partners
• MANAGEMENT
• Extracting Maximum Benefit from Available s
• Changing Directions
• Budget Development Defense
• Reprogramming
• Continuing Contracts
• FUNDING
• Reserve Used Up
• 4.5B to Manage a 6B Program
• Demand for Projects Services Exceeds Available
  Funding

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Where Were Going

• Watershed-based approach
• Multi-party collaborations among all partners
• Emphasis on watershed objectives with budget
  priority for comprehensive planning
• Sustainable integration of constructed and
  natural systems
• Coordinated standardized data collection and
  archiving
• Optimized learning/information sharing
• Effective leveraging of partners resources

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Corps Campaign Plan

• Revising policies, practices and processes to
  provide a more holistic approach to analyzing
  water resources challenges
• Developing collaborative, effective and efficient
  approaches that integrate sponsors, stakeholders,
  Federal and State agency efforts
• Improving our regulatory processes to better
  balance the demands of sustainable development
  with environmental protection
• Developing individual and organizational
  capabilities to produce technically sound
  solutions to complex water resources challenges

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Collaborative Planning EC 1105-2-409, 31 May 05

• Planning studies (recon through feasibility) will
  be completed in three years.
• Collaborative, watershed studies may be granted
  an exception to this requirement.
• Collaborative planning may recommend a watershed
  plan with Corps components as well as components
  to be implemented by other Federal agencies
• Plan Selection
• All planning studies will evaluate, display and
  compare the full range of alternative plans
  effects across all four Principles and
  Guidelines accounts.
• Plan may be candidate for selection if it has, on
  balance, net beneficial effects.
• May select and recommend any one of the candidate
  plans (ASA(CW) exception needed if not NED or
  NER plan)
• Selection will consider the beneficial and
  adverse effects in all four accounts
• Must identify an NED plan (for comparison)

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Initiatives

• HQ streamlining and use of Vertical Teams
• Delegated post-authorization and reconnaissance
  report approval
• Planning model improvements and RD
• Environmental Advisory Board and Operating
  Principles
• Office of Water Project Review
• Planning Centers of Expertise
• Streamlining Processes
• Alliances with State Water Managers
• Collaboration with Stakeholders

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Alliances with State Water Managers

• Recognize state primacy for water rights
• Become the states primary Federal support for
  state-wide water planning
• Provide technical assistance, data and watershed
  analysis
• Bring planning and analysis to bear in developing
  cooperative solutions to water conflicts that
  avoid litigation and heavy handed regulation

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Environmental Operating Principles

• Strive to achieve Environmental Sustainability.
• Recognize the interdependence of life and the
  physical environment.
• Seek balance and synergy among human development
  activities and natural systems
• Continue to accept corporate responsibility and
  accountability
• Seek ways and means to assess and mitigate
  cumulative impacts
• Build and share an integrated scientific,
  economic social knowledge base
• Respect the views of interested individuals
  groups

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Role of Sponsors Stakeholders

• In planning
• In policy development
• On project delivery team
• As part of ongoing relationships

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Other Issues

• Overdepth Dredging Guidance Issued
• Impact of Single Overhead Rate on Regulatory
• Impacts of Hurricane Recovery on s and
  Personnel

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What Can We Offer Our Partners?

• 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.

• Engineering, scientific and environmental
  expertise data to assist with local projects.
• Watershed or systems planning
• Coordination of sustainable development on
  regional scale
• Avoid wasteful duplication and conflicting
  projects

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Navigation Partner Considerations

• True partnership
• Regional economic development
• Intermodal linkages
• Cost-effective alternatives to rail and highway
  transportation
• Meeting customer needs and schedules
• Increased international competitiveness
• Recreation opportunities
• Environmental considerations

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Our Future Desired End State

• Water resources are collaboratively managed,
  developed and protected using systems principles
  to balance contemporary economic and
  environmental objectives for the welfare of
  current and future generations.
• Federal purposes are met
• World's best, fully modern navigation system
  empowers transportation and world trade
• Economic losses and human suffering from flooding
  are substantially reduced
• Nation's environment is protected and restored
• State and local governments manage resources for
  the quality of life of their people in harmony
  with and appropriately supported by the Federal
  government

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The Army Civil Works Program
Serving the Nation And Its Defense
Presentation to California Marine Affairs
Navigation Council Mr. Steven Stockton, Deputy
Director of Civil Works U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers 9 February 2006