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Program Assessment
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Program
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Corps of Engineers: Coastal Ports and Harbors
This program helps design, build, operate and maintain the nation's coastal maritime infrastructure -- ports, harbors, and navigation channels. More than 1.3 billion tons of cargo worth more than $900 billion moves through these facilities annually.
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Rating
What This Rating Means |
PERFORMING Moderately Effective
In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
- The Corps coastal navigation program plays an important role in constructing, operating and maintaining coastal maritime infrastructure essential for meeting international commercial and military needs.
- Corps investment decisions to construct new coastal maritime infrastructure facilities under this program have not always been based on sound economic considerations. That somewhat undisciplined approach tends to waste valuable resources and reduce the program's effectiveness.
- Corps decisions on how to spend its operation and maintenance budget need improvement. The Corps needs to develop and apply better management techniques to budget O&M expenditures, including facility condition indices, channel availability, and economic analysis which assess the need for O&M spending in an orderly and methodical way.
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Improvement Plan
About Improvement Plans |
We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:
- Selecting Corps coastal navigation construction projects using objective, business-like, economic criteria to achieve the maximum benefits possible and to eliminate waste and inefficiency.
- Developing & implementing improved techniques for managing O&M expenditures including facility condition indices, channel availability, economic analysis,and standardizing decision-making across Corp.
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