• The Fort Worth District manages one of the largest military construction programs in the Corps and supports customers with design and construction projects at 17 active Army and Air Force installations in Texas, New Mexico and Louisiana.
  
• The district also assists Army and Air Force Reserve customers in Louisiana and Texas, provides operation and maintenance support to installations in three states, and leases facilities for military recruiting commands.

The Lackland AFB Fiscal Year 2000, 2001 and 2002 dorm projects are design-build projects with Spaw Glass Contractors. The construction cost is $17.5 million. The buildings have been turned over to the Air Force and will house permanent party airmen.

Figure(s):

• Map of military contruction sites (click here to view figure).

The Fort Hood FY06 Tactical Equipment Shop VI is an in-house Fort Worth District design, constructed by M.W. Builders of Texas, with a current construction cost of $20 million. The 77,440 square foot shop provides for 21,000 square feet of vehicle maintenance area, 17,000 square feet of warehouse area, 8,500 square feet of small item repair area, 6,000 square feet of administrative area, 2,000 square feet of welding repair area, and 700 square feet of wash bay area, as well as 16 acres of concrete hardstand for training, maintenance, and storage units. Supporting facilities for the new shop include utilities, contained parking area for fuel trucks, POV parking spaces, access drives, sidewalks, and lighting. This project is currently expected to be turned over to 13th Corps Support Command by April 2008. All facilities were designed to current Force Protection standards.

Three projects totaling approximately $51 million were awarded in March 2005 at England Air Park, Alexandria, LA. They include the Arrival/Departure Airfield Control Group Facility (aka Passenger Processing Facility) and Fixed Wing Aircraft Parking and Hazardous Cargo Loading Aprons. These projects will significantly enhance Fort Polk’s deployment and power projection capabilities in support of Army Transformation and the Global War on Terror. The Fixed Wing Aircraft Parking and Hazardous Cargo Loading Aprons were completed in November 2006 while the Passenger Processing Facility is scheduled to be completed in June 2007.

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• The Fort Worth District Civil Works missions include flood damage reduction, ecosystem restoration, water supply, recreation, fish and wildlife mitigation and environmental stewardship.
  
• The district’s Operations and Maintenance program includes 25 multi-purpose projects, three hydropower plants and 197 parks, which receive over 25 million visitors annually. The district has built 58 flood control and/or multi-purpose projects. Our reservoirs have prevented more than $60 billion in flood damages since their construction, while also storing 35 percent of the state’s potable water supply.
  
• The district’s civil works area of responsibility covers approximately 53 percent of the state of Texas and portions of 10 river basins from the Rio Grande River in the Southwest to the Red River in the Northeast.
  
• The district is collaborating with numerous river authorities, Federal, state and local governments, and resource agencies on water resource studies within the Trinity, San Antonio, Guadalupe, Nueces, Brazos, Sulphur, Rio Grande and Lower Colorado River basins. The issues addressed in these studies range from large, complex, multi-purpose basin-wide water resource problems to smaller localized problems.

Figure(s):

• Figure 3 –
  • (a) Dallas Floodway Extension Cell D, July 2005.
  • (b) Dallas Floodway Extension Cell D, January 2006. The Dallas Floodway Extension project is one example of a partnership between the Corps and a non-Federal sponsor to provide flood damage reduction, ecosystem restoration, recreation, and other allied purposes within the Trinity River Basin.
    
    
• Figure 4 – San Antonio’s tunnel system has prevented more than $130 million in flood damages since completion.
  
  
• Map of water resources in the district (click here to view figure).

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(Existing)

San Antonio Channel – Historic Mission Reach at Ashley Road

The Corps of Engineers Regulatory Program is implemented under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 for two-thirds of the State of Texas, including three very large, fast-growing metropolitan areas – Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Austin – and some of the fastest growing cities in the nation. The Program:

• protects functions of the aquatic environment while rendering fair and reasonable decisions in as efficient a manner as possible.
  
• regulates activities occurring in a wide range of aquatic resources in a geographic area where the average rainfall ranges from approximately 10 inches per year to 65 inches per year.
  
• works regularly and effectively with numerous Federal agencies, such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; state agencies, such as the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and Texas Department of Transportation; and regional and local agencies, such as the North Central Texas Council of Governments and the Lower Colorado River Authority.
  
• regularly conducts outreach programs to educate the public about the elements of the Corps Regulatory Program.
  
• streamlines regulatory actions in areas determined to be national priorities, including national security, energy, transportation and stream and wetland restoration.
  
• handles permit applications for a large number of high profile projects in the areas of residential, commercial, and industrial development, energy production (primarily oil, gas and lignite), transportation (including very large projects associated with the TransTexas Project), and water supply development, including large proposed reservoir projects such as Lake Columbia.
  
• approves and oversees the operation of 10 mitigation banks located in north, east and central Texas.
  
• handles a large number of permit actions (completed 955 permit actions in FY 2006).