Planning Community of Practice
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Planning CoP Mission | USACE Communities of Practice develop and maintain: USACE policy and doctrine, national, international and interagency relations and coalitions; accelerates organizational communications, implements learning doctrine, while facilitating the advancement of our technical expertise in order to move us to the Corps objective organization. A USACE Community of Practice: - Formulates and coordinates Army CW policy with OASA (CW), Federal agencies, and OMB; manages the Chief's Environmental Advisory Board activities; manages or provides representation to Federal Advisory Committees.
- Develops and manages CW actions relating to authorizing legislation. Serves as principle civil works point of contact with Congressional authorizing and appropriating committees on policy and project matters.
- Formulates and coordinates CW environmental policy; provides environmental technical support.
- Identifies and develops new Civil Works policy, planning and program initiatives for issues where water and related land resources, Corps experience and expertise, and multiple-objective problem solving potentially come together.
- Manages policy compliance review of all CW actions requiring a Washington level policy analysis. Manages development of standard Project Partnership Agreements (PPA), and reviews and processes all PPAs accompanying implementation recommendations.
- Develops, maintains and prepares for publication all planning protocols and procedures, and all benefit, cost, and environmental evaluation procedures and techniques; develops and manages all supporting training and research.
- Manages certain Corps programs: Flood Plain Management Services, Planning Assistance to States Programs. Provides representation or other assistance for certain interagency committees: National Steering Committee for the Clean Water Action Plan and others.
- Manages, executes, monitors Civil Works General Investigation and Continuing Authorities planning efforts; processes final reports. Manages preparation of budget and appropriation requests for planning studies. Prepares draft testimony and supporting materials for Congressional authorization and appropriations hearings.
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