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5 Alternative Scenarios for Future Infrastructure Management
5 Alternative Scenarios for Future Infrastructure Management
Pages 88-93
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Reclamation has recognized and taken steps to adapt its tasks as it changes from water resource development to water resource management. This change has turned Reclamation from a construction and capital-oriented organization into an operations and maintenance organization that requires determining the appropriate balance and borders between centralized policy and decentralized operations.
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For a single project, Scenarios 2 and 3 are mutually exclusive, but they could be occurring concurrently on different projects. SCENARIO 1: CENTRALLY LOCATED PROJECT MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION Construction projects other than minor projects that are undertaken by area or regional offices are executed by a centrally located construction
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Scenario 1 implies the following organizational characteristics: · Project management and construction expertise for major construction projects will be concentrated in a centrally located unit and largely stripped from the existing organization. · The central project management unit will include personnel with skills and qualifications to serve as contracting officers; to oversee design provided by the regional offices, by TSC, or by contract; to supervise contract or construction activities in the field; and to ensure integration of user needs as determined by line organization managers.
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ALTERNATIVE SCENARIOS FOR FUTURE INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT 91 SCENARIO 2: OUTSOURCED OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE Outsourcing of essentially nongovernmental functions increases to the point where Reclamation accomplishes all of its field O&M tasks by contract except those determined to be inherently the government's responsibility. The O&M for major hydroelectric plants and dams that pose the most significant risks is likely to continue to be a Reclamation function, but with increasing support services by contractors.
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A recent review of USACE water resources planning (NRC, 2004) recommended a portfolio planning process that considers issues such as the operational benefits that may be realized when investment in a new project results in increased value of the water infrastructure.
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2004. Review Procedures for Water Resources Project Plan ning.
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