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Program Assessment
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Program
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Inland Waterways Navigation
The goal of the program is to facilitate substantial movements of waterborne commerce on the inland waterways where highly cost-effective. The Corps uses locks and dams, navigation channels, and other measures to support safe, reliable, and environmentally sustainable transportation on these waterways.
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Rating
What This Rating Means |
NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated
A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
- The rehabilitation of existing infrastructure is funded from a different appropriation than routine maintenance, and responsibility for these interrelated investments is fragmented. The current approach diffuses accountability and oversight, does not reflect the full cost of operating and maintaining existing projects, and impedes development of an integrated investment strategy.
- The Corps proposed new navigation locks on the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway based on an outdated economic model that overstates benefits and a second economic model that reflects flawed, hypothetical data and assumptions. The National Academy recommended developing a new model based on real willingness-to-pay data to form the foundation for estimating the benefits.
- The Corps needs to develop standard risk and reliability criteria to measure the condition of its inland waterways projects nationwide and use in establishing priorities for maintenance funding.
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Improvement Plan
About Improvement Plans |
We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:
- Proposing to transfer the rehabilitation of inland waterways projects, where the extent of the work is not large enough to be considered a replacement, from construction to the maintenance program.
- Developing a new economic model to estimate properly the economic benefits of a range of possible improvements on the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway.
- Improving how the program measures risk and reliability. The Corps has held five workshops with waterways users to discuss the factors relevant to the allocation of maintenance funding.
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