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Planning Guidance: Navigation - Inland
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Engineer Circulars (ECs) This circular provides guidance for a comprehensive evaluation of vertical datum on flood control, shore protection, hurricane protection, and navigation projects. Economic Guidance Memoranda (EGMs) This memorandum provides FY 2000 shallow draft vessel operating costs. FY 2004 shallow draft vessels operating costs. Engineer Pamphlets (EPs) Engineer Pamphlet describes study processes performed by USACE for Federal flood damage reduction cost projects. Engineer Pamphlet describes activities necessary to design and prepare a Hydrologic Engineering Study for a Corps water resource investigation. Engineer Pamphlet provides general guidance and information concerning dam safety preparations for USACE. Engineer Pamphlet evaluates procedures for major rehabilitation where risk-based benefit-cost analysis is used. This guidance provides a conceptual approach for analyzing rehabilitation. It requires risk-based benefit-cost analysis and criteria. This appendix outlines basic procedures that can be used to evaluate rehabilitation for navigation and hydropower project purposes. Engineer Pamphlet discusses federal responsibility and authority in water resources policy. Digest of Water Resources Policies and Authorities Engineer Pamphlet describes the Corps' role in navigation, federal policies covering navigation, and the construction aspects of navigation projects. Digest of Water Resources Policies and Authorities Engineer Pamphlet discusses federal stream bank erosion policy. Digest of Water Resources Policies and Authorities Engineer Pamphlet discusses federal recreation policy and philosophy, different types of recreation projects, project evaluation, and project finance. Digest of Water Resources Policies and Authorities This pamphlet explains the benefits of, and requirements for, stakeholder engagement, collaboration, and coordination in Civil Works planning studies. These activities are critical to study success because they may foster trust and credibility between USACE and the communities we serve; increase collective understanding of problems; reduce controversy and litigation risks; and improve the quality and execution of our decisions. Note: This EP replaces the existing Appendix B of the Planning Guidance Notebook. Engineer Regulations (ERs) This regulation provides policies and guidelines for the apportionment of bridge alteration costs required in connection with navigation improvements. This regulation establishes policy, provides background, and discusses management of the Cooperative Stream Gaging Program. This regulation provides policy guidance regarding Corps interests in civil works projects that would directly serve a single entity. This regulation establishes the policy for the operations and maintenance (O&M) of USACE navigation and dredging projects, as well as their related structures and equipment. This regulation states the objective, outlines the scope, discusses funding, assigns responsibility, and establishes the procedures by which the Corps of Engineers (CE) evaluates civil works navigation projects. This regulation prescribes the policy and procedure for approval and technical supervision of coastal, hydraulic, and hydrologic studies related to planning, design, construction, and operation of projects. This regulation prescribes the policy and design procedures for development of a new or replacement of an existing shallow draft navigation project. This regulation provides policy guidance for scheduled monitoring, inspection, evaluation, maintenance and rehabilitation of relief wells at civil works projects. This appendix provides policy and planning guidance for project purposes of navigation, flood damage reduction, hurricane and storm damage reduction (shore protection), ecosystem restoration, hydroelectric power, recreation, water supply and multiple purpose projects. This regulation provides guidance for proper and accurately referenced materials for flood forecasting, inundation modeling, flood insurance rate maps, navigation charting, and topographic mapping. This ER was later supplemented by Engineer Manual 1110-2-6056: Standards and Procedures for Referencing Project Elevation Grades to Nationwide Vertical Datums (2010). This regulation establishes the roles and responsibilities of the Inland Navigation Design Center (INDC) Mandatory Center of Expertise (MCX). USACE will use the expertise of the Center to maintain quality, reliability, and cost effectiveness of inland navigation structures. The Center serves as the national center of expertise that provides technical advice, oversight, and design production during planning, design, analysis, construction, and O&M of all aspects of inland navigation design projects across USACE. MSCs, districts, laboratories, and Field Operating Activities are required to engage the Center for mandatory functions detailed in the ER. Add to front page Guidance newsfeed This regulation provides policy guidance for implementation of Section 203 of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 1986, as amended. Section 203 authorizes non-federal interests to undertake feasibility studies of proposed water resources development projects for submission to the Secretary of the Army. Separate guidance is provided on the construction of water resources development projects under Section 204 of WRDA 1986, as amended. Portions of this ER have been amended by implementation guidance for Section 1126 of WRDA 2016. This regulation provides policy guidance for implementation of Section 204(f) of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 1986, as amended. Section 204(f) authorizes the Secretary of the Army to be responsible for the operation and maintenance of improvements to a federally authorized harbor or inland harbor carried out by a non-federal interest when certain conditions are met. Institute for Water Resources The nation's inland waterways infrastructure is aging and in need of rehabilitation and replacement. Economic analyses to date have overlooked the value of increased mean productivity, which results from lock rehabilitation. Productivity increases are measured in terms of decreases in the mean time it takes to transit a lock. The analysis develops a dynamic model for estimating these values. The papers presented in this compendium report research results on problems and proposed solutions on lock congestion and lock queues. The research results present suggestions or alternative solutions for improving the reliability of the inland waterways transportation system. The research is believed to provide a stimulus for useful discussion at the Division and District levels. Any comments on information presented in the articles should be addressed to the Navigation Division of the Institute for Water Resources. A simulation model has been developed for estimating delays on congested waterways and a numerical method has been developed to approximate the results of the simulation model. USACE major responsibilities for waterborne commerce include dredging, development and maintenance of the inland and coastal waterways and related maritime infrastructure, and navigation aids. A firm understanding of marine transportation conditions and trends is critical in discharging those responsibilities. The U.S. Maritime Transportation System (MTS) no longer exists in isolation, but must interact with ports, land carriers, customers, communities, environmental restrictions and security concerns. This second in a series of Water Resources Outlook papers is intended to develop an understanding of the challenges faced by the MTS over the next 30 years and suggests roles for the private and governmental sectors, including the Corps. It is intended to provide a strong, fact-based foundation for policy, planning and priorities. Guidance Memos This memorandum addresses the requirement to perform mitigation when proposed USACE flood-risk reduction projects increase the Base (1-percent-annual-chance) Flood Elevation (BFE). National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) regulations (44 C.F.R. 65.12) require revisions to flood insurance rate maps to reflect BFE and/or floodway changes caused by encroachments permitted by an NFIP participating community. Section 125(a)(2)(C) of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2020 amends Section 204(d) of WRDA 1992 (33 U.S.C. 2326(d)) to authorize the Secretary of the Army for Civil Works to use funds appropriated for construction or operation and maintenance of a project involving the disposal of dredged material when selecting a disposal method that is not the least cost option based on a determination that the incremental costs of the disposal method are reasonable in relation to the environmental benefits or the hurricane and storm or flood risk reduction benefits. This memorandum provides guidance and direction on implementation of Section 125(a)(2)(C) and rescinds and replaces the implementation guidance for Section 1038 of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014. This memorandum provides interim policy and procedural guidance for inland navigation and intracoastal waterway major rehabilitation as authorized by WRDA 1992, Section 205 (ref 1.a). This interim guidance is intended to facilitate MSC management of MRE efforts by clarifying the roles and responsibilities of key organizations responsible for MRER execution; and formalizing the MRE report development process, to include phases, key milestones, review requirements, and approval authorities for budgetary purposes. NETS NETS activity: Recent Trends in Output, Industrial Organization, and the Willingness to Pay in the United States Inland Waterborne Commercial Transportation Industry NETS activity: A Discrete Event Simulation Model of a Congested Segment of the Upper Mississippi River Inland Navigation System NETS activity: Long-Term Forecasting of World Grain Trade and U.S. Gulf Exports: Submitted to the Transportation Research Board for Publication in Transportation Research Record NETS activity: Long-Term Forecasting of World Grain Trade and US Gulf Exports NETS activity: Seasonality and Geographic Trends for Grain Shipment on the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway NETS activity: Shippers' Responses to Changes in Transportation Rates and Times: The Mid-American Grain Study NETS activity: A Study of Short-Run Movements in Grain on the Inland Waterway System NETS activity: Transportation Demand for Grain Shipment: A Revealed and Stated Preference Approach NETS activity: Understanding Grain Movements for Demand Estimation: The Columbia-Snake River System in Washington State NETS activity: Columbia/Snake River Transportation Study NETS Report: Determining System Capacity to Accommodate Grain Flows by Rail to the Mississippi River at St. Louis NETS activity: Econometric Analysis of Stated-Preference Experiments Constructed from Revealed-Preference Choices NETS activity: Estimation of Demands at the Pool Level NETS activity: Event Study of the August 2004 McAlpine Lock Closure NETS activity: Market Adjustments Over Transportation Networks: A Time Series Analysis of Grain Movements on the Mississippi Inland Waterway System NETS activity: McAlpine Lock Closure in August 2004: Shipper and Carrier Response Results of Surveys NETS activity: A Model of Spatial Market Areas and Transportation Demand NETS activity: Patterns in Geographic Elasticity Estimates of Barge Demand on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers NETS activity: Shipper and Carrier Response to the September-October 2003 Greenup Main Lock Closure NETS activity: Spatial Competition, Supply, and Transportation Demand: A Study of Elevator Competition and Waterway Demands with Geographically Varying Elasticities and Spatial Autocorrelation NETS activity: A Survey of the Freight Transportation Demand Literature and a Comparison of Elasticity Estimates NETS activity: System-Wide Lock Reliability Analysis Phase 0: Proof of Concept NETS activity: Tradeable Permit Markets for Locks on Inland Waterways NETS activity: Vessel, Firm, and Lock Efficiency Measures in Lock Performance NETS Navigation System Simulation Model report NETS activity: Event Studies: Hannibal Locks and Dam NETS report NETS activity: Navigation System Simulation Design NETS Port Development, Internal Transport Systems and International Trade Report NETS activity: Lock 27 NETS activity: Lock 27 NETS activity: Transportation Demands in the Columbia-Snake River Basin NETS Report: Modeling Preferences for Upper Mississippi Grain Movements: The Mid-American Grain Study NETS Report: Modeling Preferences for Upper Mississippi Grain Movements: The Mid-American Grain Study NETS Report: Modeling Preferences for Upper Mississippi Grain Movements: The Mid-American Grain Study NETS: Ohio River Basin Shipper Response Survey Mississippi River Locks 12-25 (UMR 556 to 241) are critical to navigation on the Upper Mississippi River. In 2007 Lock 12 passed about 18 million tons, and Lock 25 passed about 30 million tons. Between June 13 and July 5, 2008, these locks were sequentially closed to navigation traffic for an unscheduled shutdown of the river due to flooding. A survey of the shippers and carriers affected by the emergency lock closures was conducted between 14 January and 6 March for the purpose of discerning industry reactions to the closures and the associated costs.
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