Budget
- President's Proposed Corps Budget (due out February 2021 but may be delayed)
- 5 Steps You Need to Take to Prepare for the Next Corps Budget
- Understanding the Corps of Engineers Funding
- Corps Budget Cycle: It's Different Than You Think
- Corps Funding Process
- Issues for Corps Funding and Policy
- Congressional Action on Corps' Final Budget (click here)
- WaterLog Chart: Federal Shore Protection Funding from 1996 to 2021
This exclusive WaterLog resource tracks all shore protection funding from 1996 to date.
Corps Work Plan for FY21
After Congress has appropriated E&W funding into three categories:
Corps districts will send project funding requests to their Division. The Corps Division will then prioritize it's requests with the requests of it's districts and made a final request to be sent to Corps Headquarters in Washington, DC. Finally, Corps Headquarters will send it's final recommendations to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works. Following a rigorous economic and budgeting battle between the White House Office of Management and Budget, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works will release a Work Plan.
Historical Corps Coastal Funding Chart: FY96-FY21: Click here
Supplemental Appropriations
Supplemental Appropriations Bill (January 8, 2019)
Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act, 2019 (June 5th, 2019)
Guidance for Supplemental Disaster Relief Act of 2019 (June 27, 2019)
In addition to annual appropriations, Congress provides supplemental appropriations to account for expenses made by the Federal government in response to unforeseen circumstances, such as natural disasters.
Corps Planning Assistance
- Planning Assistance to States Webinar (October 12, 2018)
- Continuing Authorities Programs (CAP) Cheat Sheet (January 5, 2021)
Corps Process
- Corps Civil Works Process Flowchart
- Corps Water Resource Authorization and Project Delivery Process (April, 2019)
- Corps Section 7001 Process (August, 2020)
- Section 7001 Process - Read this if you want to propose a new study or policy
- The Corps Project Planning Process Simplified
Find your Corps District Office
Resources Within the Corps
- New as of Jan 2021 --
- Corps Water Infrastructure Financing Program (CWIFP aka WIFIA)
- Corps REVOLUTIONIZE Website
- Find Corps Publications (Beta) or Corps Planning Website
- Coastal Planning Center of Expertise
- Regional Sediment Management Center of Expertise
- Cost Center of Expertise
- Institute for Water Resources
- Engineer Research & Development Center - Coastal Hydraulics Laboratory
- Planning Assistance to States Webinar (October 12, 2018)
- Continuing Authorities Programs (CAP) Cheat Sheet (January 5, 2021)
- Regional Sediment Management Website
- Corps Historical Funding Website
- Advanced Accelerated Contributed & Accelerated Funds: Explanation
- Advanced and Contributed Funds ER1165-2-30 (Oct. 1998)
- WRRDA14 changes to contributed funds authority
- Studies of Corps Projects by Non-Federal Interests
- Corps Continuing Authorities Programs: Dollar Limits Post WRRDA14
- Coordinating Corps Feasibility Studies with FWS & NMFS
- Discount Rates in the Evaluation of Corps Projects
Permitting
- Applying for Corps Permits (404/408/etc.)
- Corps Regulatory Program - Obtaining a Permit
- Corps Issues Nationwide Permits for 'Living Shorelines' (Jan. 2019)
Terms & Glossary
Planning Assistance to States (PAS)
Regional Sediment Management (RSM)
Continuing Authorities Program (CAP)
- Section 14, Streambank and shoreline erosion protection of public works and non-profit public services
- Section 103, Beach erosion and hurricane and storm damage reduction (Also referred to as PL 84-99 and Flood Control and Coastal Emergency (FCCE))
- Section 107, Navigation improvements
- Section 111, Shore damage prevention or mitigation caused by Federal navigation projects
- Section 204, Beneficial uses of dredged material
- Section 205, Flood control
- Section 206, Aquatic ecosystem restoration
- Section 208, Removal of obstructions, clearing channels for flood control
- Section 1135, Project modifications for improvement of the environment
Floodplain Management Services (FPMS)
- Regional Sediment Management Website
- Advanced Accelerated Contributed & Accelerated Funds: Explanation
- Advanced and Contributed Funds ER1165-2-30 (Oct. 1998)
- WRRDA14 changes to contributed funds authority
- Studies of Corps Projects by Non-Federal Interests
- Corps Continuing Authorities Programs: Dollar Limits Post WRRDA14
- CAP Programs Training Presentation (2011)
- Coordinating Corps Feasibility Studies with FWS & NMFS
- Discount Rates in the Evaluation of Corps Projects
- Corps Discount Rate for 2017
- Corps Support for Regional Planning
- Guidance for Economic Updates (2012)
- How to Do the New 'Single-Phase Corps Feasibility Studies
- Civil Works Review Board Primer
- Corps Procedures to Evaluate Sea Level Rise
- Corps' Climate Change Adaptation Plan (2014)
- Corps' '404' Clean Water Act Permitting Requirements
- Feasibility Study Milestones - New Corps Guidance Explained (Dec. 2016)
- Feasibility Study Milestones - More on the new Guidance (Jan. 2017)
- Feasibility Studies & Project Partnership Agreements - Fact Sheet
- Guidance on Single Phase Feasibility Studies (Revised May 2017)
- Flood Control & Coastal Emergencies - What Priority Are You?
- In-Kind Contributions: Rules (2015)
- Least Cost Standard 'Clarified' (Oct. 2015)
- Life-Safety Hazard Indicator - Presentation (2011) and Life-Safety Hazard Indicator - Draft Explanation
- Planning Guidance Notebook
- Planning Primer
- Planning Manual (IWR)
- Planning Assistance to States - General Guidance (June 2016)
- Guidance for PAS Program as amended by WRRDA14 (June 2016)
- Template for Planning Assistance to States Agreement for Comprehensive Plan (Oct. 2016)
- Template for Planning Assistance to States Agreement for Technical Assistance (Oct. 2016)
- Principles & Guidelines (aka Planning Bible or P&G) (1983)
- Principles & Guidelines Explained (presentation)
- Principles & Requirements (aka The New Bible) (not yet implemented) (2013)
- Principles & Requirements: Interagency Guidelines (2014) (not yet implemented)
- Sea Level Change Planning Rules
- Systems Approach to Coastal Management (2008)
- Updating Benefit-to-Cost Ratios for Corps Studies
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