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Program Assessment
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Program
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Corps of Engineers: Environmental Stewardship
The Corps operates 456 dams, reservoirs and other water-related projects nationwide. It is responsible for adjacent Army Corps-owned land. This Corps-owned property covers 12 million acres, equal in size to the States of Vermont and New Hampshire combined. The purpose of this program is to manage this land responsibly.
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Rating
What This Rating Means |
PERFORMING Adequate
This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
- The Corps has done an adequate job managing the land and other natural resources entrusted to it, but it needs to take a more proactive management approach so it has better knowledge of the resources it is responsible for. For example, it needs to complete natural resource inventories for the sites it manages.
- An up-to-date Master Plan can help the Corps manage its properties in a responsible way. Corps regulations require Master Plans for Corps properties but these are not always kept up-to-date.
- An independently-conducted comprehensive evaluation of the Environmental Stewardship program may provide additional information useful to enhance program effectiveness.
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Improvement Plan
About Improvement Plans |
We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:
- Preparing a series of natural resource inventories, focusing first on areas where an inventory is likely to improve Corps management.
- Preparing and updating Master Plans for Corps properties, as called for in Corps regulations, whenever doing so is cost-effective.
- Conducting an independent assessment of the Corps' Environmental Stewardship program.
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