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E-4. Coordination Among Federal Agencies
affordable technology for maintaining and extending
the service life of existing Corps civil works structures.
a. Technology. The technology for design,
The REMR program covered a wide range of
construction, operation, and maintenance of dams is
techniques for inspection, evaluation, repair, and
constantly changing due to new developments from
rehabilitation of hydraulic structures including dams.
research; unique experience with projects under design,
Many of the research studies provide knowledge and
construction, or operation; new developments in
techniques needed in many aspects of dam safety. An
laboratory testing and equipment and/or field
overview of the REMR program is available (U.S.
investigation practices and procedures; and
Army Corps of Engineers 1990). A follow-on 7-year
development of new analytical methods (U.S. Army
REMR-II program was started in Fiscal Year 1992 to
Corps of Engineers, Office of the Chief of Engineers
address new and different needs identified by Corps
1977; Federal Coordinating Council for Science,
field offices. Research conducted under REMR-II will
Engineering and Technology 1978).
have applicability to dam safety.
b. Federal Agency exchange. Exchange of
c.
Dam Safety Risk Analysis Research Program.
information and coordination of efforts on dam safety
This program, conducted from 1984 to 1990, was man-
research among Federal agencies is accomplished
aged by the Corps' Institute for Water Resources. The
through the ICODS Subcommittee on Safety Research
program consisted of numerous work units for dam
and through the biennial Interagency Research
safety risk analyses, including a work unit for
Coordination Conferences (Federal Emergency
hydrologic risk analyses conducted at the Corps'
Management Agency 1979, 1988b).
Hydrologic Engineering Center (Stakhiv and Moser
1986; Federal Emergency Management Agency 1988b;
Duscha 1984, 1986; Von Thun 1984; Lave, Resendiz-
E-5. Transfer and Integration of New
Carrillo, and McMichael 1990).
Studies of
Technology
socioeconomic considerations and multiobjective risk
partitioning in dam safety risk analysis were conducted
a. Transfer of new technology. There is no
(Cochrane, Ferrell-Dillard, Baumann 1987; Haimes et
single, most successful, method of technology transfer.
al. 1988).
What works well for one type of technology and one
type of user may not work as well for other users.
E-3. Dam Safety Research by Other Federal
Therefore, a successful technology transfer effort must
Agencies
use a combination of methods (U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers 1990). Methods used to transfer dam safety
technology include articles in technical journals,
Significant effort goes into research on dam safety by
technical reports (written and/or video), information
other Federal agencies.
General exchange of
exchange bulletins, newsletters or technical notes,
information and coordination of efforts are discussed in
workshops and conferences, demonstrations of new
paragraph E-4.
technology on site, and electronic bulletin boards.
a. Agencies. The agencies that manage the major
b. Integration of new technology. Various
part of Federal research and development activities
methods are used to integrate new technology into dam
related to dam safety (Federal Emergency Management
safety. Some of those methods are input to engineer
Agency 1988b) are U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
manuals, engineer regulations, engineer technical
Bureau of Reclamation, and Federal Emergency
letters, etc., PROSPECT course on dam safety, TADS
Management Agency.
program, training program for operations and
maintenance personnel, use of experts or consultants,
b. Programs.
Specialized research and
and computer data bases and expert systems.
development programs are conducted or sponsored by
the Soil Conservation Service and the Electric Power
U.S. Government Printing Office: 1996-412-340/50421
Research Institute.
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