Inland Navigation - A National Perspective Jim Walker USACE, Headquarters November 8, 2007

Navigation Program Almost 1100 Congressionally authorized and constructed navigation projects 27 inland navigation systems 237 Navigation locks Aging infrastructure Funding — Annual Operation and Maintenance — Non-routine Maintenance

Navigation Program Reliable Inland River Systems Lock Availability — Scheduled and Unscheduled Lock Closures Channel Availability — Depth and Width

Reliability – Navigation Locks Navigation Lock Unavailability, Total Hours Scheduled vs. Unscheduled without Ice

Lock Reliability Corps wide Navigation Lock condition assessment Prioritized list of maintenance needs Reliability Goal — Unscheduled lock closures — Five Year Development Plan: less than 20,000 hours of unscheduled closures — FY09 pursue first year of incremental improvement

Channel Availability - Coastal Initial effort: Projects with greater than 10M tons per year Establish Performance Standard Determine channel availability trend — FY 2005, 2006, 2007 — Five Year Development Plans — FY 2009 Improvement Increment

Channel Availability - Coastal Channel Cross Section Depth at Centerline (CL) Depth at Channel Toe Depth at Quarter Points CL Toe Qtr Pt Advanced Maintenance Allowable Overdepth Qtr Pt Toe

Channel Availability - Coastal Level of Service Standard — Full project depth — Half project width, 95% of the time Channel availability trend — FY 2005: 38% — FY 2006: 35% — FY 2009 – 2013: get to 95% — FY 2009 Improvement Increment

Future Direction RAMP Risk Informed Asset Management Performance

RAMP RISK Categories Structural Operational Life Safety Economic Environmental Security

RAMP ASSET MANAGEMENT Maintenance Management Use for Repair, Rehab, Replace, Retire decision FEM is the Corps system Deploying in

RAMP PERFORMANCE Tonnage Performance Standard Funding — Achieve appropriate levels of risk — Achieve level of performance Report what we are able to accomplish with the funds provided Transparent process – stakeholders, public, Congress

Future Direction Method needs to be easy to explain and understand Administration – OMB Economists Congress American Public America’s Infrastructure must become a National priority

RAMP OMB Feedback Concur with the approach Performance measure agreement Data collection and reporting underway Improve OMB PART rating from current ‘Results Not Demonstrated’

Where We Are Nav Lock High Performing Operation (HPO) 85% of Inland Navigation expended on annual operation and maintenance HPO to evaluate effectiveness and efficiency Performance Work Statement to be released for public review and comment in Nov/Dec hpo.usace.army.mil/HPO_System.htm

Conclusion The Bottom Lines Investing in the Navigation system is investing in economic development America’s Infrastructure must become a National priority