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6 Conclusions, Findings, and Recommendations
6 Conclusions, Findings, and Recommendations
Pages 94-108
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· Building out after passage of the Colorado River Basin Projects Act, 1969-1988. · Dam safety/water management, 1989-present.
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Engineers and builders must be both environmental experts and water resource experts. · American Indian water rights and rural water needs.
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· New modes of augmenting the water supply. In the absence of significant climate change or major technological breakthroughs, water resources will remain constant, while demand can be anticipated to increase.
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For the past decade many of Reclamation's functions have been decentralized and directed by regional office directors and area office managers. Concurrent with implementation of the decentralized organizational model, Reclamation-wide directives, known as Instructions, were withdrawn, although in some cases they continue to be used for guidance in the field.
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Recommendation 1c. The design groups in area and project offices should be consolidated in regional offices or regional technical groups to provide a critical mass that will allow optimizing technical competencies and providing efficient service.
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Regional offices, area offices, water and power beneficiaries, and other stakeholders all perceive an ongoing need for a centralized, high-level center of science and engineering excellence within Reclamation. The committee believes that a thorough review and evaluation of TSC and its policies and procedures could result in a smaller, more efficient and effective TSC.
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100 21ST CENTURY BUREAU OF RECLAMATION Reclamation Laboratory and Research Activities Finding 3. Reclamation's laboratory and research activities came of age during the era of large dam construction in the twentieth century, when much of the needed expertise resided in the federal government and there were no laboratories capable of handling the necessary work.
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Decisions often hinge on the availability of federal employees to do the work. There is increasing pressure on Reclamation to allow water districts, American Indian tribes, and other customers to undertake their own planning, design, and construction management functions.
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Project Management Finding 6a. Reclamation does not have a structured project management process to administer planning, design, and construction activities from inception through completion of construction and the beginning of O&M.
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Recommendation 6b. Reclamation should develop a comprehensive set of directives on project management and stakeholder engagement that is similar to TSC directives for agency-wide use.
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Different Reclamation regions employ different contracting approaches and use a variety of contracting vehicles to meet their acquisition needs. These range from indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ)
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Reclamation and other federal agencies recognize that successful outsourcing of technical services requires maintaining technical core competencies to develop contract scope, select contractors, and manage contracts, and that it is necessary for agency personnel to execute projects as well as to receive continuing training in order to maintain those competencies. Finding 9b.
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106 21ST CENTURY BUREAU OF RECLAMATION water resources. The need to include a broad spectrum of stakeholders, particularly groups that represent environmental issues and American Indian water rights, considerably alters both the tasks of the agency and the skills required to accomplish them.
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a centrally located project management organization, (2) outsourced O&M, and (3)
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