Appraisal of Selected Corps Preauthorization Reports for Environmental Quality Planning and Evaluation. Part I. Executive Summary.
Abstract
This appraisal of the Army Corps of Engineers' Environmental Quality (EQ) planning was first linked to the problems encountered in conforming to the Corps' own multiple-objective planning guidance in the ER 1105-2-200 series of planning regulations. This was done to identify potential impediments to implementing the new Environmental Quality Evaluation Procedures (EQEP). An implicit emphasis is placed on more quantitative, analytical approaches to measurement, impact assessment, and forecasting which provides the basis for evaluation. The linkage of forecasting techniques to evaluation methods requires the greatest methodological development in future OCE guidance. The EQEP emphasis on a more analytical and quantitative approach to forecasting and evaluation is aimed at improving the quantitative tradeoff analysis and net effects assessment steps. The EQEP are valuable procedural guidelines which create an internally consistent planning evaluation framework. The EQEP, however, must be more clearly linked to the overall planning process to show the relationship of EQ effects assessment to plan formulation, evaluation, and EQ plan designation. It was found that many reports were poorly organized, thereby hampering decision traceability. It is concluded that the EQEP are not expected to impose a significantly increased burden for data collection.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA105833
Entities
People
- Eugene Stakhiv
- John Fittipaldi
- Mary Vincent
- Robert Lacey
- Steven Light
Organizations
- Construction Engineering Research Laboratory