EP 1165-2-1
30 Jul 99
effective and continuous interface with customers to ensure that the
customers' requirements and expectations are met or exceeded. In
discharging their responsibilities, district commanders:
(a) Prepare water and related land resources studies in
response to specific congressional resolutions.
(b)
Conduct engineering design and operations and maintenance
studies.
(c)
Construct civil works facilities.
(d)
Operate and maintain major water resource projects.
(e) Administer the laws for the protection and preservation of
the navigable waters of the United States.
(f) Acquire, manage and dispose of real estate in connection
with civil works functions and assigned military functions. (ER
10-1-2)
d. Boards and Commissions. Organizations which advise and
support the Chief of Engineers in civil works functions include:
(1) Coastal Engineering Research Board (CERB). This advisory
board provides policy guidance and reviews plans for research and
development in coastal engineering and recommends priorities of
research projects. (ER 10-1-16)
(2) Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors (BERH). In
accordance with Section 223 of WRDA 1992, the BERH ceased to exist in
1993.
(3) Mississippi River Commission (MRC). The MRC's jurisdiction
extends from the Mississippi River's headwaters in Minnnesota to its
mouth in Louisiana. The statutory mission of the MRC is to "take into
consideration and to mature such plan or plans and estimates as will
correct, permanently locate, and deepen the channel and protect the
banks of the Mississippi; improve and give safety and ease to the
navigation thereof; prevent destructive floods; promote and facilitate
commerce, trade, and the postal service and, when so prepared and
matured, to submit to the Secretary of the Army a full and detailed
report of these proceedings and actions and of such plans with
estimates of the cost thereof for the purposes aforesaid to be by him
transmitted to Congress" (33 USC 647). MRC and its work are funded
separately from other Civil Works projects under "Mississippi River
and Tributaries (MR&T) Appropriations Accounts." (ER 10-1-5)
(4) Chief of Engineers Environmental Advisory Board (EAB). The
Environmental Advisory Board consists of six members selected by the
Chief of Engineers representing a broad range of expertise and
experience in environmental matters. The Board serves as advisor to
the Chief of Engineers primarily for environmental policy and
procedural matters. (OM 15-2-1)
(5) Board of Contract Appeals. This board is established under
the Contracts Disputes Act of of 1978 (Public Law 95-563) to decide
disputes arising under Civil Works contracts of the Corps of
Engineers. (Charter issued 6 August 1979; revised 20 January 1984)
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