South Pacific Division

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South Pacific Division Dam Safety
Committee Meeting --- 17 May 2001

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Agenda

• South Pacific Division Program
• Organization - Division and Districts
• Scope
• Issues
• HQ USACE Activities
• Dam Safety Program Manager (aka Coordinator)
• Revision of Regulations
• Peer Review
• Action Plan

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Organization Division

• Dam Safety Officer
• Dam Safety Program Manager
• Geotechnical Engineer
• Operations
• Dam Safety Committee discussion point update
  membership

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Organization Districts

• SPK Officer, Program Manager, full section in
  Geotech Branch
• SPL Officer, Program Manager
• SPA Officer, Program Manager is Division
  technical specialist
• SPN Program Manager, Officer in SPK

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SPD Dam Safety Committee

• HQ USACE has 12 members
• SPD 8 (some retired or left)
• Districts 8 members
• SPD Mission
• Command and Control
• Program Management
• Regional Interface
• Quality Assurance

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SPD Dam Safety Committee

• Need to revise membership
• Suggest
• Dam Safety Officer
• Geotechnical Engineer
• Operations
• Programs Manager for OM budget
• Any technical experts?
• Chain of command?

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Scope of the Program

• Dams 46
• DSAP Studies
• PMF
• Seismic
• Pre-Flood Inspections, each dam, every year,
  operations and emergency management
• Periodic Inspections 10 per year, 200,000 each
• Section 7 Inspections, none funded

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FY 2001 TOP 19 BACKLOG MAINTENANCE PROJECTS
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DSAP

• Albuquerque 7 dams being studied
• Spillway issues Cochiti
• Los Angeles District 6 dams being studied
• Whittier Narrows seepage (started as DSAP)
• Tainter Gate Inspections
• Alamo Risk Assessment
• Sacramento District 18 dams being studied
• Success Dam -- seismic
• Farmington seepage (not DSAP)

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Coordination with State Officials

• California Triads
• Project Triads
• One on One meetings
• ASDSO Meeting

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Association of State Dam Safety Officials Meeting
in Snowbird, Utah, September 2001

• Sacramento District Support
• Corps of Engineers Display Booth
• SPD presentations.
• USACE Dam Safety Coordinators meeting to be held
  in conjunction.

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Issues

• Funding none in 2000,2001 or 2002 (AP 1)
• Flood Inspection v. Inspection of Completed Works
• Revising SPD Regulations (waiting on HQ USACE)
  (AP2)
• Review/Approval of Periodic Inspections (AP2)
• Professional Activities (ASDSO) (AP7)
• Web Page Postings (AP 2,5,6A)

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HQ USACE Interface

• Dam Safety now a program
• National Dam Safety Work Group
• Recent Guidance
• Peer Review

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Project Management Business Process (PMBP)

• Dam Safety Recognized as a Program
• The Corps Dam Safety program is part of the
  overall National Dam Safety Program established
  by the National Dam Safety Program Act (PL
  104-303). The basis guidelines for Federal
  agency programs are published in FEMA 93, Federal
  Guidelines for Dam Safety, June 1979. The program
  includes Corps membership on the Interagency
  Committee on Dam Safety (ICODS) and the National
  Dam Safety Review Board (NDSRB) as
  representatives of the Secretary of Defense.
  Under the process established by FEMA 93 and
  Engineer Regulations, the Chief, Engineering and
  Construction Division, is the Corps Dam Safety
  Officer. The HQUSACE Dam Safety Committee serves
  as an advisory board for the program. The Dam
  Safety PM is responsible for total program
  management including facilitation of field
  programs, training coordination, and public
  awareness programs. The Dam Safety Program also
  includes the National Inventory of Dams as
  mandatory by Public Law. Program integrator
  CECW-EI.

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Project Management Business Process (PMBP)

• What is Dam Safety?
• All actions taken to insure the Safety of Dams
• What Being a Program Means?
• Has status with other programs
• Program Manager identified
• What Action Must Be Taken?
• Dam Safety Committee must embrace PMBP
• Identified all Dam Safety Actions by a Team
  Approach
• Include Operations and others in Dam Safety
  Planning
• What Must Be Avoided?
• Attitude that Dam Safety is an Engineering ONLY
  Function

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Current Safety of Dam Program

• Safety of Dams Projects
• Construction -- 16
• Engineering and Design -- 14
• Study -- 42
• Funding for Safety of Dams (all projects) -- FY
  2000
• Operating Accounts -- 114.0 million
• Ordinary Maintenance -- 219.0 million
• Major Rehabilitation -- 272.0 million (FY01
  33.5)
• Dam Safety Assurance -- 422.5 million (FY01
  43.0)
• Unfunded Projects
• Dam Safety Assurance -- 800.0 million
• Major Rehabilitation -- 1,200.0 million

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WRDA 2000

• Section 225 Dam Safety
• Directs the Secretary of Army to inventory dams
  funds by Works Progress Administration, Works
  Projects Administration, and Civilian
  Conservation Corps.
• Requires an assessment of the condition of those
  dams.
• Authorized Funding
• 25 Million a year for ten years
• 5 Million to rehabilitate any one dam

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National Dam Safety Work Group

• Representatives
• Each Corps MSC
• Army Installation Management
• TRADOC, FORSCOM, and AMC
• Possible Air Force and Navy
• Duties
• Recommend policy
• Assist on National Committees
• Review major incidents

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Revision of Regulations

• Comments to Draft ER 1110-2-1156 due 1 June

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Recent HQ USACE Guidance

• Peer Review for USACE Dam Safety Program 15 Feb
  01
• Interim change to ER 1110-2-1156
• HQ USACE Dam Safety Committee
• Members of HQ USACE Dam Safety Committee
• Supplemental guidance regarding inspection of
  completed works
• (use of FCCE funds, not ICW) 21 Dec 2000
• Dam Safety Information (message)
• (use ICW funds) 9 April 2001
• Biannual report to FEMA due 9 July 2000

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Peer Review

• SPD Input at http//www.spd.usace.army.mil/dets/p
  ublic/eng/damsafe/PeerReview/DamSafetyPeerReviewRe
  sponse.htm
• Not visiting SPD
• Positive feedback from SWD and NWD visits

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Action Plan Objectives

• Objectives
• Make the South Pacific Division Dam Safety
  Program a model program for the Corps.
• Ensure public safety
• Enhance professionalism
• Be recognized as world leaders.

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