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1 Introduction
Pages 12-18

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... This deterioration of Corps water resources infrastructure is a microcosm of larger national trends in the deteriorating condition of major infrastructure, including highways, bridges, roads, airports, and drinking water and wastewater treatment facilities. Degradation of U.S.
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... These processes are reflected in occasional federal Water Resources Development Acts, or WRDAs. The WRDA process historically was not developed or used as a primary vehicle for water project maintenance and rehabilitation, but these issues today are increasingly important national water investment priorities.
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... of Corps of Engineers water resources infrastructure. The committee's report will seek to identify alternatives and opportunities for improved decision making and prioritization in regard to maintenance, upgrades, and modernization of the navigation, flood risk management, hydropower, and related ecosystem infrastructure managed by the Corps.
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... Evaluation or critiques of issues such as multi-criterion decision making for new water projects, benefit-cost analysis, federal Principles and Guidelines, or adaptive management are beyond the scope of this report, although some of these topics are referred to as part of the analyses conducted. It also should be noted that this report focuses specifically on Corps of Engineers water resources infrastructure and does not consider and evaluate specifically operational or maintenance programs of other federal water agencies, such as the U.S.
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... A set of coordinated studies on various dimensions of Corps planning methods and approaches was congressionally mandated in Section 216 of the 2000 Water Re sources Development Act. They have been informally referred to as "the 216 stud ies": Review Procedures for Water Resources Project Planning.
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... . Following Hurricane Katrina, the Department of the Army requested that the NRC and the National Academy of Engineering review successive drafts that evaluated performance of the New Orleans hurricane protection system during Hurricane Katrina.
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... Following this introductory chapter, Chapter 2 reviews and comments upon historical federal water resources planning processes, with an emphasis on the Water Resources Development Act. Chapter 3 examines the state of Corps infrastructure and related challenges in setting OMR priorities, as well as opportunities to address these issues in the Corps mission areas of navigation, flood risk management, and hydropower generation.
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