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Appendix B: Corps of Engineers Civil Works Program Statistics
Pages 29-34

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... : $165 million -- Regulatory Program: $190 million -- Formerly Used Sites Remedial Action Pgm. (FUSRAP radiological environmental cleanup)
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... 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)
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... -- 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)
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... 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6,900 -- Covered by Nationwide Permits: 31,900 -- Permits Denied: 275 -- Permits Modified: 3,100 -- Applications Withdrawn: 10,200 -- "No Permit Required" Determinations: 9,810 -- Percent of minor permits completed within 60 days: 92% -- Jurisdictional Determinations: 63,100 --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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... 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.
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... of State, $ 630 million -- Dept. of Veterans Affairs, $348.7 million -- Environmental Protection Agency, $308.2 million -- Dept.
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