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NHPRS-5  

Legal and Institutional Aspects of Hydroelectric Power Development and Operation
This legal/institutional policy study is designed to provide guidance to decisionmakers in the executive and legislative branches of the federal government concerning the legal framework within which hydropower expansion will be conducted. Because this analysis is national in scope, it is necessarily general, particularly in its treatment of state law issues.

Mar1981

NTIS: 

5
Total Volumes: 1

Pages: 231

1900-NHS-05    

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02-R-5  

Lessons Learned from Cost Effectiveness and Incremental Cost Analyses
The work presented in this document was conducted under the Investment and Management Decision Making Research Program. The Research Program is sponsored by the Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and is assigned to the Institute for Water Resources (IWR). Mr. Darrell Nolton is the Program Manager at IWR. Mr. Harry Kitch, Ms. Lillian Almodovar, and Mr. Bruce Carlson, all of the Planning and Policy Division, are the Headquarters' Program Monitors. Field Review Group Members that provide overall Program direction include: Mr. Ken Barr and Ms. Teresa Kincaid of the Rock Island District, Ms. Sharon Bond and Mr. Mitch Laird of the Louisville District, Ms. Beth Brandreth of the Philadelphia District, Mr. William Fickel of the Fort Worth District, Mr. Martin Hudson of the Portland District, Mr. Matt Laws of the Charleston District, Mr. Richard Medina of the Galveston District, Mr. Gerald Melton of the South Atlantic Division, Mr. Craig Seltzer of the Norfolk District, Mr. Dan Sulzer of the Los Angeles District, Mr. Carl Swor of the Nashville District, Mr. Jeff Trulick of the Baltimore District, Mr. Francke Walberg of the Kansas City District, Mr. Paul Wemhoener of the Omaha District. This report was prepared under the general supervision of Mr. Ken Orth, Chief of the Decision Methodologies Division, IWR, and Mr. Rob Pietrowsky, Director of IWR. Ms. Beth Brandreth of the Planning Division, Philadelphia District, and Mr. Leigh Skaggs of Decision Methodologies Division of IWR authored this document.
Beth Brandreth ;Leigh L Skaggs
Oct2002

NTIS: 

1
Total Volumes: 1

Pages: 55

2002-RPT-05    

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PR-10  

Lessons Learned from the 1986 Drought
This report documents research to determine whether there is a need to modify current Corps drought policy based on lessons learned during the 1985-86 drought in the southeastern US. This research used a variety of information from a variety of sources: information was drawn from field trips, existing drought plans, interviews, correspondence, and published literature.
HEC;William K Johnson
Jun1988

NTIS: AD-B204091

1
Total Volumes: 1

Pages: 67

1988-PR-10    

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93-NDS-5  

Lessons Learned from the California Drought - The National Study of Water Management During Drought
This report is part of a series of reports which are being published during the study. Reports on three studies conducted under the aegis of the National Study of Water Management During Drought were published in 1991.As of the date of this report, the Governor of the State of California has declared the drought over. Although restoration of water to aquifers will take years to accomplish, the public and private sectors are turning their focus on other socioeconomic issues. This current condition should be assessed as only a reprieve-a temporary relief in the hardships and impacts delivered by a drought-and implies that it wml occur again. Whether the next drought occurs later this year or 10 years from now is not the issue here. What is relevant are the lessons learned from this recent drought experience and the actions to be taken to protect against and plan for mitigating adverse drought-related impacts.
Benedykt Dziegielewski , PhD;Hari P Garbharran ;John F Langowski , Jr.
Sep1993

NTIS: AD-A281173

1
Total Volumes: 1

Pages: 268

1993-NDS-05    

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96-R-4  

Linkages Between Environmental Outputs and Human Services
A critical part of planning for environmental restoration projects is assessing the impacts of alternative plans. There are many dimensions to this assessment that are critical to formulating the most appropriate (socially, environmentally, etc.) alternative plan. Among these aspects are two foundational elements that require evaluation: the ecologic impacts and the resultant socioeconomic effects. Ecology and economics are academic disciplines in their own right and are supported by vast literature. Each has displayed varying degrees of success in pragmatic application, such as what is required for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps or USACE) environmental plan formulation. Building a bridge between these two disciplines, ecology and economics, in support of environmental plan formulation is the aim of this study.
Donald T Capan ;Richard A Cole ;Timothy D Feather ;John B Loomis
Feb1996

NTIS: AD-A320081

1
Total Volumes: 1

Pages: 160

1996-EEI-10    

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2007-R-01  

Literature Review of Computer-Aided Collaborative Decision Making
This report presents the results of a study undertaken to review and analyze literature on stakeholder participation and computer-aided decision-making approaches.
Hal Cardwell , PhD;Akapelwa Imwiko ;Jack Kiefer , PhD;Mark Lorie ;William J Werick
Feb2007

NTIS: 

1
Total Volumes: 1

Pages: 148

2007-SVP-R-01    

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85-WP-1  

Literature Survey of Incurred Traffic Due to Transport Cost Savings
The purpose of this paper is to review the literature that is currently available on induced movement benefit. The reviewer focused on coal and grain trade. A wide range of sources were consulted and read in order to find any research that had been done on induced movement benefit. Findings are summarized, and future research topics on feasible models were identified.
Lloyd G Antle ;Patricia Malone
Jun1985

NTIS: AD-A159838

1
Total Volumes: 1

Pages: 30

1985-WRK-01    

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95-FIS-20  

Living within Constraints: An Emerging Vision for High Performance Public Works
This is the fourth in a series of interim reports prepared to support the Federal Infrastructure Strategy Initiative, a 3-year program to explore the development of an integrated multi-agency Federal infrastructure policies.
Cameron Gordon ;Robert A Pietrowski ;James F Thompson
Jan1995

NTIS: AD-A319421

1
Total Volumes: 1

Pages: 94

1995-FIS-20    

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SP-17  

Local Flood Warning - Response System, Asilomar, Pacific Groove, California, 10-12 Dec 86
The objectives of the seminar were to better define the role of the Corps of Engineers and identify needed research in the planning, design, and implementation of local flood warning response system.
HEC
Dec1986

NTIS: AD-A179753

1
Total Volumes: 1

Pages: 202

1986-SP-17    

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94-FIS-10  

Local Public Finance Impact Model: User's Guide and Technical Documentation
The LPFI Model is a working prototype of a system which can used by public managers to predict the potential changes in local revenues and expenditures caused by public infrastructure investments.
Harry H Kelejian , Ph.D.;Dennis P Robinson , Ph.D.
June1994

NTIS: AD-A293786

1
Total Volumes: 1

Pages: 114

1994-FIS-10    

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87-R-1  

Lock Rehabilitation a Public Infrastructure Problem: The Value of Increased Productivity in Mean Lockage Performance
The nation's inland waterways infrastructure is aging and in need of rehabilitation and replacement. Economic analyses to date have overlooked the value of increased mean productivity which result from lock rehabilitation. Productivity increases are measured in terms of decreases in the mean time it takes tow to transit a lock. The analysis develops a dynamic model for estimating these values. The quantity of public infrastructure capital, i.e., lock capital cannot be estimated by any of the commonly accepted price or quantity methods due to lack of data. Lock capital is estimated with price data and estimates of asset depreciation functions. A recursive system of equations with exogenous demand for lockages at the lock to be rehabilitated is estimated to show the effect of lock capital on transit time. An increase in lock capital is shown to decrease mean values of: 1) the time it takes to service a tow 2) queue length and, 3) the total transit time required to pass through a lock. The model is solved for Lock and Dam 13 on the Mississippi River. The value of the improved productivity is minimal and relatively insensitive to variations in model assumptions or the estimation of the quantity of capital. Results indicate a need for data on the physical characteristics of public infrastructure capital so its quantity can be estimated. The value of improvements in infrastructure's mean productivity appear to be insignificant when compared to the value of preventing economic losses which could result from failure or loss of the infrastructure. The importance of an empirical basis for estimating the probability of infrastructure failure is pointed out as is the current lack of data to do this.
Charles E Yoe , Ph.D.
Jan1987

NTIS: AD-A184386

1
Total Volumes: 1

Pages: 192

1987-RPT-01    

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04-NETS-P-05  

Long-Term Forecasting of World Grain Trade and U.S. Gulf Exports
NETS activity Long-Term Forecasting of World Grain Trade and U.S. Gulf Exports: Submitted to the Transportation Research Board for Publication in Transportation Research Record
Bruce Dahl ;Won Koo ;Richard Taylor ;William Wilson
Jul2004

NTIS: 

1
Total Volumes: 1

Pages: 28

2004-NET-P-05    

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04-NETS-P-08  

Long-Term Forecasting of World Grain Trade and US Gulf Exports
NETS activity Long-Term Forecasting of World Grain Trade and US Gulf Exports
Bruce Dahl ;Won Koo ;Richard Taylor ;William Wilson
Nov2004

NTIS: 

1
Total Volumes: 1

Pages: 28

2004-NET-P-08    

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06-NETS-R-12  

Longer-Term Forecasting of Commodity Flows on the Mississippi River: Application to Grains and World Trade
NETS report
Bruce Dahl ;Eric DeVuyst ;Won Koo ;Richard Taylor ;William Wilson
Dec2006

NTIS: 

1
Total Volumes: 1

Pages: 286

2006-NET-R-12    

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