CERP Guidance Memorandum

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CERP Guidance Memorandum

• Recreation and Public Use
• Planning

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CERP Goals and Objectives

• Goal Enhance Ecological Values
• Increase the total spatial extent of natural
  areas
• Improve habitat and functional quality
• Improve native plant and animal species
  abundance and diversity
• Goal Enhance Economic Values And Social Well
  Being
• Increase availability of fresh water
• Reduce flood damages (agricultural/urban)
• Provide recreational and navigation
  opportunities
• Protect cultural and archeological resources and
  values

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DESCRIPTION

• Provides Guidance to Project Delivery Teams for
• Evaluating impacts of alternative designs on
  existing recreation and public use
• Evaluating new public use and recreation
  opportunities for potential inclusion in project
  designs

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GUIDANCE

• Current list of topics
• Philosophy and Checklist
• Minimum Design Considerations
• Evaluation of Project Impacts
• Interaction Between Teams

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GUIDANCE -Philosophy and Checklist

• Include statement that, where possible, Project
  Delivery Teams should
• Attempt to minimize negative impacts on
  existing public use and recreation
• Attempt to provide new public use and
  recreation opportunities
• Summarize guidance from Corps Engineering
  Regulation ER-1105-2-100
• Include checklist of cost-sharable
  recreation/public use features

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GUIDANCE -Minimum Design Considerations

• General Criteria
• American with Disabilities Accessible
• Threatened and endangered species
• Compatibility with project purposes, goals and
  objectives

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GUIDANCE -Minimum Design Considerations

• Feature specific design criteria for
• Bird watching Canoe/Kayaking
• Picnicking Hiking
• Nature/Interpretive Trails Bicycling
• Equestrian Trails Off-Road Biking
• Boat Ramps Bank Fishing
• Hunting Frogging
• Camping Airboating
• Off-Road Vehicles Soccer
• Football Skeet shooting
• Rifle Ranges Archery

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GUIDANCE -Evaluation of Project Impacts

• Recreation Planning Team
• Regional inventory of existing public use and
  recreation opportunities
• Regional evaluation of CERP project impacts and
  opportunities
• Project Delivery Teams - Project Specific
  Evaluations
• Baseline Assessment of existing public access in
  project area
• Effects of Alternative Designs
• Compensation Proposals

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GUIDANCE -Interaction Between Teams

• Describe and differentiate between roles of the
  following teams
• Recreation Planning Team
• Project Delivery Teams
• Recreation Sub-Team of the RECOVER Regional
  Evaluation Team

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APPLICATION

• Primary application is for the plan formulation
  phase
• Project Implementation Reports
• Feasibility Reports
• May also be applicable for detailed design phase

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Schedule for Development

• Draft guidance memo for Regional Planning Team
  review in October
• Draft guidance memo for Corps and SFWMD
  internal review in November
• Final guidance memo for CERP Program Manager
  approval in December

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Questions?