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DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS CIVIL WORKS PROGRAM FIVE-YEAR DEVELOPMENT PLAN Fiscal Year 2008 – Fiscal Year 2012 June 2007 Table of Contents Page 1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................1 2. Strategic Framework and Direction...................................................................................1-6 3. Methods and Assumptions.................................................................................................6 Base Plan Scenario......................................................................................................6-8 Enhanced Plan Scenario..............................................................................................8-11 Tables Scenario.........................................................................................................11-13 4. Business Programs Five Year Plans ................................................................................14 Navigation.................................................................................................................14-17 Flood Control and Coastal Storm Damage Reduction..............................................17-24 Environmental...........................................................................................................24 Ecosystem Restoration..................................................................................24-27 Environmental Stewardship..........................................................................27-36 FUSRAP .......................................................................................................36-42 Hydropower ..............................................................................................................42-45 Recreation .................................................................................................................45-51 Regulatory.................................................................................................................51-57 Emergency Management ..........................................................................................58-65 Water Supply ............................................................................................................65-67 5. Continuing Authorities Program Management Plan........................................................68-71 6. Tables...............................................................................................................................72 Table X-1 Cross-Walk Between Accounts and Business Programs, FY 2008, Base Plan Scenario ............................................................................................................72 Table X-2 Cross-Walk Between Accounts and Business Programs, FY 2008, Enhanced Plan Scenario............................................................................................73 Table I-1 Investigations Account, Base Plan Scenario.............................................74 Table I-2 Investigations Account, Enhanced Plan Scenario.....................................75 Table I-3 – Additional Studies and PEDs with Funding Capabilites........................76-80 Table C-1 Construction Account, Base Plan Scenario .............................................81 Table C-2 Construction Account, Enhanced Plan Scenario .....................................82 Table C-3 Additional Construction Projects with Funding Capabilities ..................83-85 Table C-4 Continuing Authority Program Projects, Five-Year Capability-Level Funding .....................................................................................................................86-101 Table M-1 Mississippi River and Tributaries Account, Base Plan Scenario..........102 Table M-2 Mississippi River and Tributaries Account, Enhanced Plan Scenario..103 7. Attachments ...................................................................................................................104 Appendix F – Continuing Authorities Program ER ER-1105-2-100, as Amended.................................................................................................................104-144 i 1. Introduction This Five-Year Development Plan presents projections of discretionary budget authority (funding) for the Army Civil Works program for Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 through FY 2012. Two scenarios for overall funding levels are presented: A Base Plan Scenario and an Enhanced Plan Scenario, as discussed further in the “Methods and Assumptions” section. Civil Works funding is distributed among eight accounts: Investigations; Construction; Operation and Maintenance; Mississippi River and Tributaries (MR&T); the Regulatory Program; Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP); Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies (FCCE); and Expenses. This funding supports eight program areas (business programs), plus the oversight, executive direction and management function. The eight program areas are commercial navigation, flood control and coastal storm damage reduction, environment, recreation, hydropower, water supply, emergency management, and the regulatory program. 2. Strategic Framework and Direction The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is privileged to be part of an organization that directly supports the President's priorities of winning the global war on terror, securing the homeland and contributing to the economy. The outcomes achieved by the Army Civil Works program are economic growth, protection of human life, improvement in quality of life, and environmental protection, restoration, and stewardship. The Five Year Program recommendations support the Corps of Engineers Civil Works Program vision. The recommendations in this plan provide for the Corps of Engineers to strengthen technical expertise and to build our problem solving capability in order to remain a military-civil team ready to deliver critical infrastructure, engineering-related technical assistance, and coalition-building expertise worldwide. Our effectiveness depends on public trust in our products and services, which in turn depends on sound principles and technical expertise. We must be able to deliver for the Army and the nation. We have conscientiously made some sweeping changes to improve our business processes to achieve our vision as the nation’s engineering leader in providing comprehensive, collaborative, and sustainable solutions to public water resources needs. We recognize that we cannot achieve our vision alone but must work with and through others to identify and solve problems. This synergy will leverage resources for the public good. Providing sustainable and integrated water resources solutions is perhaps the core of our vision and this five-year program. The way in which we manage our water resources can improve the quality of our citizens' lives. It has affected where and how people live and influenced the development of this country. The country today seeks economic development as well as the protection of environmental values. We must plan, design, construct, operate, manage, and maintain with an eye toward sustaining critical resources, preserving our economic vitality, and protecting our quality of life so that future generations have the ability to contribute their best in the future. This will be achieved by keeping our nation’s waterways clean and 1 navigable for global competition, by protecting and restoring endangered resources, and by responding to threats both large and small – not the least of which is extreme flooding. Managing by objectives and greater unity and integration of effort through concerted attention to our business processes is our strategic theme. This management theme will continue to support our vision to deliver outputs based on greater performance and integrated benefits. We have already begun to apply this framework to produce the following results: Domestically, more than 8,000 USACE volunteers from around the nation have deployed to help citizens and communities along the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. Even now, almost two years after Hurricane Katrina, 2,000 USACE volunteers continue to execute our FEMA-assigned disaster recovery missions along the Gulf Coast, and to work on rebuilding the New Orleans-area levee system. As to Hurricane recovery the Corps of Engineers is repairing significant damages to reaches of federally constructed levees, floodwalls and other features, repairing damaged pumping stations that were constructed or modified as a part of the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control project, and repairing non-Federal levees and pump stations. Along the three outfall canals, we are installing interim closure structures and temporary pumps until a more permanent solution can be implemented. We have also initiated analyses that will explore options to improve protection along the Louisiana and Mississippi Coasts. In the past year, a thrust to complete levee and floodwall repairs to the pre-Katrina level of protection and plans to raise the protection to the currently authorized levels were initiated. We have developed a contracting strategy to complete the New Orleans levee and floodwall repairs, restoration and improvements outlined in the 3rd and 4th FY 2006 emergency supplemental acts. One of the lessons of Katrina is that we must ensure safety and reliability through rigorous inspections to guarantee that design standards are met and that the integrity