U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Levee Safety Program Engineer Circular Development US Army Corps of Engineers BUILDING STRONG ® Michael Bart, P. E. Chief, Engineering & Construction Division St. Paul District Levee Safety Policy & Procedures Team May 2012 Levee Safety Portfolio Risk Management

BUILDING STRONG ® Topics  USACE Levee Safety Principles  Portfolio Risk Management  Why Use Portfolio Management  Routine and Non-Routine Activities  Levee Safety Action Classification  National Levee Database 2

BUILDING STRONG ®  Hold life safety paramount and reduce economic, and environmental risk  Open and transparent communication  Decisions will be risk informed  Shared responsibility and accountability for risk management  Systems approach  Periodic and continuous activities Guiding Principles 3

BUILDING STRONG ® Risk Defined  Risk is the combination of the likelihood and the consequences of inundation of the leveed area.  Emphasis is on life-safety in concert with economic and environmental inundation risk. 4

BUILDING STRONG ® Utilize a Systems Approach  Physical levee systems  Operational and control processes  Social, ecological, and economic Riversburg Greentown Metroville This diagram shows three levee systems wherein each reduces inundation risk for a separable floodplain. Ownership boundaries and construction sequence and authorization limits are not relevant. 5

BUILDING STRONG ®  Levee Safety Engineer Circular  Consolidate Levee Safety policy and guidance into single document.  Internal & External Stakeholder Involvement ► Webinars ► Workshop(s) ► Draft documents and Feedback USACE Engineer Circular Regulation

BUILDING STRONG ® Malfunction of Levee System Components Overtopping with Breach Breach Prior to Overtopping Overtopping Without Breach Inundation Scenarios 7

BUILDING STRONG ® Portfolio Risk Management  USACE proposes a risk-informed portfolio management process, continuously applied to all levee systems in the USACE inventory  Prompts extensive stakeholder involvement in development and implementation of risk management strategies  Assists in communicating urgency of actions commensurate with the level of inundation risk  Used to prioritize activities 8

BUILDING STRONG ® Why Use a Portfolio Risk Management Process for Levees?  Fulfill All USACE Authorized Responsibilities  Consistent USACE Response: ► Characterization ► Communication ► Action  Better Decisions by USACE and Stakeholders ► Prioritized Investments ► Stronger Justifications ► Improved coordination with stakeholder decisions 9

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BUILDING STRONG ® Purpose of Routine Activities  Periodic and continuous – Life Safety  Verify/validate O&M responsibilities & actions through inspections  Assess Levee System risks through application of the Levee Screening Tool (LST)  Assign Levee Safety Action Classification for follow-on activities 11

BUILDING STRONG ® What are the Routine Activities?  Routine Operation & Maintenance  Inspections: Routine, Periodic & Special  Screening  Levee Safety Action Classification 12

BUILDING STRONG ® Levee Safety Portfolio Risk Management Process Routine Activities (Green) 13

BUILDING STRONG ® Levee Safety Portfolio Risk Management Process Non-Routine Activities (Shaded) 14

BUILDING STRONG ® Levee Safety Action Classification System  Transition from Routine to Non-Routine  Reflects urgency of action  Depicts range of risk ► combination of likelihood and consequences of inundation with an emphasis on life-safety  Provides consistent and systematic guidelines for actions commensurate with the risk 15

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BUILDING STRONG ® 18 Levee Safety Portfolio Risk Management Process & National Levee Database NLD

BUILDING STRONG ® National Levee Database Objectives  Simple web-based user interface to access data.  Levee maps/data readily visible to all stakeholders.  Safeguarding critical information.  Data and reports from many sources can be stored in NLD.  Nationally consistent, state of the art system 19

BUILDING STRONG ® Feedback  Webinars (Dec 2010 – Mar 2011)  Workshops (May, June, August, 2011)  1,500+ comments received  Analyzing, dissecting, considering….into draft documents 5

BUILDING STRONG ® Engineer Circular Next Steps  Assembling draft EC – Summer/Fall 2012  Series of Internal Briefs – Summer/Fall 2012  External Briefs - FEMA – Summer/Fall 2012  Publish Draft EC – Late 2012  Comment Period – Late 2012/Early 2013  Conduct Internal/External Detailed Webinars – Late 2012/Early 2013  Resolution of Comments – 2013  External Peer Review 21

BUILDING STRONG ® Without Further Adieu  Maria Wegner-Johnson ► Headquarters USACE, ► Planning Community of Practice