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Appendix B
Corps of Engineers Civil
Works Program Statistics1
FACTS:
1. PEOPLE
— Civilian employee work years (FTE’s), FY 2011: 23,232
— Military personnel authorized: 294
2. DIVISIONS & DISTRICTS:
— Number of division offices with Civil Works mission: 8
— Number of district offices: 38
3. FUNDING:
Fiscal Year 2010 appropriations: $5.657 billion
— Regular Appropriation: $5.440 billion
— Supplemental Appropriations: $217 million
— Construction: $2.031 billion
— Operation and Maintenance: $2.573 billion
— Mississippi River and Tributaries: $359 million
— Investigations (e.g. new project studies): $165 million
— Regulatory Program: $190 million
— Formerly Used Sites Remedial Action Pgm. (FUSRAP
radiological environmental cleanup): $134 million
— Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies: $20 million
— Expenses and Other: $185 million
1 Statistics are for September 30, 2010, unless otherwise specified
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30 NATIONAL WATER RESOURCE CHALLENGES FACING THE USACE
— Other Revenue (estimated)
— Non-federal (cost-sharing—estimated): $893 million
— Coastal Wetlands Restoration Trust: $85 million
— Permanent appropriation: $17 million
— Total program: $6.652 billion
4. FUNDING BY BUSINESS LINE, FY 2010 appropriations:
— Navigation: $1.822 billion (32.1%)
— Flood Risk Management: $1.942 billion (34.2%)
— Environmental (Including FUSRAP& Infrastructure): $984
million (17.4%)
— Regulatory Programs: $190 million (3.3%)
— Hydropower: $211 million (3.7%)
— Recreation: $284 million (5%)
— Emergency Management: $34 million (0.6%)
— Water Supply: $5 million (0.1%)
— Executive Direction & Other: $185 million (3.3%)
5. APPROPRIATIONS FOR CIVIL WORKS, PAST 50 YEARS (FY 1961-
2010): $176,370,623,000
— Adjusted for inflation to Sep 2010: $358,473,303,000
6. PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, FY 10: 1,167
— Specifically authorized by Congress: 434
— Flood Risk Management: 191
— Hydropower: 5
— Navigation: 147
— Environmental (Including FUSRAP): 39
— Environmental Infrastructure: 52
— “Continuing Authorities” Projects: 733 (Nine authorities, including
environmental)
7. FUNDS OBLIGATED, FY 2010 (Current program and prior year
funding carryover): $11,584,480,700
8. CONTRACTS LET, FY09: $9.07 billion
— To Small Businesses: $3.87 billion (42.7%)
— Small Disadvantaged Firms: $973 million (10.7%)
9. DAMS owned/operated by Corps (all purposes) 692
— Dams built by Corps but operated by others: 103
— Tallest dam: Dworshak Dam, North Fork Clearwater River, ID,
717 ft.
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APPENDIX B
10. REAL ESTATE
— USACE owns 136,000 land tracts, totaling more than 7.6 million
acres (~11,875 square miles)
— USACE manages another 4.1 million acres (~6,400 square miles)
— Total lake surface area at full pool: 26.25 million acres
(41,015 square miles–area slightly larger than Kentucky)
— Largest lake: Lake Oahe, ND & SD, 587.5 square miles
11. NAVIGATION
— States served by Corps ports & waterways: 41 (including all States
east of Mississippi River)
— Commercial inland channels operated/ maintained: 12,000 miles
— Percentage of U.S. domestic freight carried by water (by ton-miles,
2007, excluding air & pipeline): 16%
— Navigation lock chambers: 238 at 192 sites
— Locks chambers in operation over 50 years old: 138;
Average age of locks: 58 years
— Combined lift of all Corps locks: 6,498 ft.
— Highest: John Day Lock, Columbia R., OR, 110 ft.
— Most cargo moved: Ohio River Lock #52, 80 million tons (2009)
— Coastal, Great Lakes and inland harbors maintained by Corps: 926
— Harbors handling over 250,000 tons of cargo: 183 (111 coastal, 46
Great Lakes, 26 inland) (2009)
— Port handling most cargo: South Louisiana, 212.6 million tons
(2009)
— Value of foreign commerce handled at ports (2009): $1.156
trillion
— Tonnage handled by U.S. ports and waterways (2009): 2,211 million
tons
— Inbound foreign: 858.9 million tons, Outbound foreign: 494.8
million tons, Domestic: 857.1 million tons
— Major commodities: Crude oil, 515.3 million tons; petroleum
products, 501.1 million tons;
coal & coke, 290.9 million tons;
food & farm products, 279 million tons
12. DREDGING
— Material dredged (construction and maintenance, 2009): 263.6
million cubic yards—enough to fill a football field to a depth of 12
miles
— Cost: $1,344.1 million. Average cost per cubic yard: $5.10
— Percentage of material dredged by private firms: 82.2%
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— Companies dredging for Corps: 51 (33 small businesses)
submitted 363 bids for 183 contracts (87 of which went to small &
emerging businesses)
— Percentage of dredging funds going to contractors: 89.2%
— Corps-owned dredges: 11 (4 hopper, 7 other)
13. FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT
— Dams managed by Corps: 692, at 557 dam projects
— Federal levees built or controlled by Corps: ~11,750 miles
— Damages prevented by Corps projects, 2009: $29.5 billion
— Average annual damages prevented by Corps projects (2000-2009):
$22.3 billion
— Damages prevented per $1 invested (adjusted for inflation), 1928-
2009: $7.17
14. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION/RESTORATION
— Largest projects ($20M+ in FY10):
South Florida Ecosystem Restoration
Columbia River Fish & Wildlife Mitigation,
Missouri River Fish & Wildlife Mitigation
Louisiana Coastal Area Ecosystem Restoration (investigation)
Upper Mississippi River Restoration
15. REGULATORY PROGRAM
— Final Actions, FY10: 68,800
— Standard Permits and Letters of Permission: 3,700
— Activities covered by Regional General Permits: 13,470
— Covered by Programmatic General Permits: 6,900
— Covered by Nationwide Permits: 31,900
— Permits Denied: 275
— Permits Modified: 3,100
— Applications Withdrawn: 10,200
— “No Permit Required” Determinations: 9,810
— Percent of minor permits completed within 60 days: 92%
— Jurisdictional Determinations: 63,100
— Number of approved mitigation banks: 665
— Compliance visits done on 17% of mitigation sites and 34% of
mitigation banks or In Lieu Fee sites
16. HYDROPOWER
— Number of projects in operation: 75, with 350 generating units
— Installed generating capacity: 23,764 megawatts
— Largest USACE power plants:
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APPENDIX B
— Capacity—2,484 megawatts, John Day Dam, Columbia River,
OR;
— Most units: 27, Chief Joseph Dam, Columbia River, WA
— Largest generating unit: 220 megawatts, Dworshak Dam, North
Fork Clearwater River, ID
— Annual power generation: 68 billion kilowatt-hours
— Annual gross revenue generated: approx. $4 billion
— Repayment to U.S. Treasury from power sales (estimate): $800
million
— Value of Hydropower Assets (2007): approx. $20 billion
— Rank among U.S. hydropower producers: #1
— USACE owns & operates 24% of U.S. hydropower capacity, or 3% of
total U.S. electric capacity
— FERC licensed non-federal power plants at Corps facilities (not
counted above): 90, with 2,300 megawatts capacity
17. RECREATION
— Rank among Federal providers of Outdoor Recreation: #1
— Visits per year: 370 million
— 10% of U.S. population visits a Corps project at least once each year
— Number of sites: 4,254 at 422 Corps projects (mostly lakes)
— more than 90% of the lakes are near metropolitan areas (within
50 miles of a MSA)
— Land & water used for recreation: 12 million acres
— USACE hosts 20% of visits to Federal recreation areas on 2% of
Federal lands
— Miles of shoreline: 54,879
— Number of campsites: 92,674
— Miles of trails: 6,864
— Number of boat launch ramps: 3,603
— Share of all U.S. freshwater lake fishing: 33%
— 20,000 fishing tournaments a year
— Spent by visitors at Corps projects: $18 billion
— Jobs (full or part time) supported by visitation: 350,000
— Concessionaires on Corps projects: 500, with gross fixed assets of $1
billion
— Volunteers at Corps projects: 54,917; Hours worked: 1.4 million,
Value of their labor: $28.3 million
18. WATER SUPPLY
— Total capacity of Corps lakes: 329.2 million acre-feet
— Total authorized municipal & industrial water supply storage: 9.76
million acre-feet
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34 NATIONAL WATER RESOURCE CHALLENGES FACING THE USACE
— Total investment associated with municipal & industrial water
supply storage: $1.5 billion
— Projects with authorized municipal & industrial water supply
storage: 136, in 25 States plus Puerto Rico
— Projects with authorized irrigation storage: 48
19. EMERGENCY OPERATIONS
— Major disasters responded to in 2010: 20
— Largest events: Hurricane Earl; Flooding in Nashville, Midwest,
Arizona and California; Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Haiti
Earthquake.
— Corps members deployed to emergency operations: 855
20. SUPPORT TO OTHER (NON-DEFENSE) GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES:
— Number of Federal agencies supported: 70+
— Expenditures for FY10: $2 billion
— Biggest Customers:
— Dept. of State, $ 630 million
— Dept. of Veterans Affairs, $348.7 million
— Environmental Protection Agency, $308.2 million
— Dept. of Homeland Security – Customs and Border Protection,
$254.2 million
