EP 1165-2-1
30 Jul 99
Corps may accept and use contributions to provide for operation and/or
maintenance of recreation areas and the protection and restoration of
natural resources at water resource development projects. Cash,
funds, materials, and services may be accepted, but real estate can
not be accepted. (ER 1130-2-500, Chapter 11)
c. Section 225 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992
authorizes the Corps to develop and implement a program to share the
cost of managing recreation facilities and natural resources at water
resource development projects. The Corps is authorized to enter into
cooperative agreements (Challenge Cost Share Agreements) with non-
Federal public and private entities to provide for operation and/or
management and development of recreation facilties and natural
resources where such facilities and resources are being maintained at
complete Federal expense. Funds, materials, and services may be
accepted in conjuction with this program. (ER 1130-2-500)
11-14. Discontinuation of Maintenance of Projects. Some waterways
and harbor improvements constructed years ago may no longer be needed
or used for the purposes for which originally intended, because of
changed physical and economic conditions. Efforts are made to
transfer the projects to appropriate state or local agencies for
maintenance where obsolete waterways serve local purposes such as
recreation or as sources of municipal or industrial water; or where
local developments have grown up along the navigation pools. Where
Federal improvements are not justified or no longer serve their
authorized purpose, the Corps will recommend discontinuation of
maintenance to Congress. Pending arrangements for disposition, they
are maintained as economically as possible to ensure that public
health and safety are not endangered. Obsolete harbor improvements,
which no longer have importance for commercial or recreational
traffic, are not maintained by the Federal Government.
11-15. Operation and Maintenance Resumption after Suspension of
Substantial Curtailment of Maintenance.
a. Suspended or substantially curtailed maintenance defines a
situation where a conscious decision has been made in the past to
suspend, stop, or curtail normal Federal maintenance practices for a
project or specific feature(s) of a project. This decision may not
have been from a study or a document but may reflect budget realities
of competing needs of scarce resources, benefits diminished or gone at
the project, or environmental compliance constraints. Presently the
project dimensions or capacities are diminished enough to require a
special one-time funding to bring the project up to a level of
performance to accrue benefits for authorized purposes.
b. The reinstatement of Federal O&M budgetary support in
authorized projects with suspended or substantially curtailed
maintenance requires: (1) reaffirmation of Federal interest; (2)
determination that the proposed maintenance is engineeringly,
economically, and environmnetally sound; and, (3) approvals.
11-16. Monitoring Coastal Projects. In the planning, design,
construction and O&M of coastal projects, elements of uncertainty
about the performance and ultimate effectiveness of the project works
are always present in some degree because of the complex and forceful
processes at work. Monitoring of completed, in-place projects is a
means of achieving new insights for future application in development
of other projects. The Corps O&M budget generally includes provision
for undertaking intensive monitoring programs at a select few Corps
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