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Date March 31, 2010 Report No. GAO-10-420 Title

Delaware River Deepening Project: Comprehensive Reanalysis Corrected Errors, but Several Issues Still Need to Be Addressed

United States Government Accountability Office GAO March 2010 Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, U.S. Senate DELAWARE RIVER DEEPENING PROJECT Comprehensive Reanalysis Corrected Errors, but Several Issues Still Need to Be Addressed GAO-10-420 March 2010 DELAWARE ...
Date June 7, 2002 Report No. GAO-02-604 Title

Delaware River Deepening Project: Comprehensive Reanalysis Needed

United States General Accounting Office GAO June 2002 Report to Congressional Requesters DELAWARE RIVER DEEPENING PROJECT Comprehensive Reanalysis Needed GAO-02-604 Contents Letter Results in Brief Background Corps’ Analysis Substantially Overestimated Project Benefits Corps Has Refined Its Cost Estimate to Reflect Some Changes and Corrections, but Additional Updates Are Needed Further Correctio...
Date March 2, 2000 Report No. RCED-00-58 Title

Port Infrastructure: Financing of Navigation Projects at Small and Medium-Sized Ports

United States General Accounting Office GAO March 2000 Report to Congressional Requesters PORT INFRASTRUCTURE Financing of Navigation Projects at Small and Medium-Sized Ports GAO/RCED-00-58 Contents Letter Appendixes Appendix I: Scope and Methodology Appendix II: Summary of Selected Federally Sponsored Innovative Financing Mechanisms Used by Federal Transportation Projects Appendix III: Summary of...
Date April 30, 1999 Report No. RCED-99-69 Title

Nuclear Waste: Process to Remove Radioactive Waste From Savannah River Tanks Fails to Work

United States General Accounting Office GAO April 1999 Report to the Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives NUCLEAR WASTE Process to Remove Radioactive Waste From Savannah River Tanks Fails to Work GAO/RCED-99-69 GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-281907 Le er t Letter April ...
Date Aug. 17, 1992 Report No. RCED-92-99 Title

Natural Resources Protection: Reelfoot Lake Lease Terms Met, but Lake Continues to Deteriorate

( ..“I .__ ,_. .._.._.l.lll..- .._-. ._.. _.... . .I ..-.__ -.. I -...__ II. ._ ..__-~ NATURAL RESOURCES PROTECTION Reelfoot Lake Lease Terms Met, but Lake Continues to Deteriorate 147360 I RESTRICTED--Not to be released outside the General Accounting Office unless suecificallv approved by the Office of Relations. Y SED GAO United States General Accounting Off’ ice Wahb@on, D.C. 20548 Resource...
Date Aug. 3, 1992 Report No. RCED-92-239BR Title

Water Resources: The Corps of Engineers' Dredging Program for Small Business Firms

IJrritctcI StaLes (kneral __l-..-.--ll”-_-l-..___-ll------”-. .-..1--~ -.-.I.~~ Accountinrt .I Office - GAO Angnst, l!M2 Eriefing Report to the Chairman, Committee on Small Business, U.S. St.!nate I WATER RESOURCES The Corps of Engineers’ Dredging Program for Small Business Firms . ,._, . ~ RESTRICTED--Not to be released outside General Accounting Office unless approved by the Office of Rela...
Date July 17, 1992 Report No. RCED-92-89 Title

Water Resources: Future Needs for Confining Contaminated Sediment in the Great Lakes Region

f.lnit,c?d Staten C;eneral Accounting Office GAO .I uly I !W Report to the Chairman, Subcon&%& on Water Resources, Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives -----.._ -.._- ._... WATER RESOURCES F’ uture Needs For Confining Contaminated Sediment in the Great Lakes Region e-, llllllllll llllll 147341 RESTRICTED--Not to be released outside the General Accounting Office ...
Date July 13, 1992 Report No. RCED-92-173BR Title

Endangered Species: Past Actions Taken to Assist Columbia River Salmon

“I~ II 11 11 -__” ‘ / I ...-..-.--_..---.-_‘Citates .___.__l__..__l___..~..~.~.-..- ._..... .._.._ United ~_-_---~. General ._ I _.... 11 “1’ G#,/(J /, Accounting ~----- Office - - - -- ;’ ‘ 1 1 Briefing Report to Congressional Requesters _l__-_.“.. . I.. ._.- _ . .- _._ -..---... ..__ _.-.----.____- ------“-.-~-_~___ --_.~ ; July 1992 ENDANGERED SPECIES Past Actions Taken to A...
Date Jan. 31, 1991 Report No. RCED-91-73 Title

Water Resources: Bonneville's Irrigation and Drainage System Is Not Economically Justified

GAO WATER RESOURCES Bonneville’ Irrigation s and Drainage System Is Not Economically Justified RELEA&D RESTRICTED--Not to be released outside the General Accounting Office unless specifIcally approved by the Office of Congressional Relations, -.... -.. _.~ . . . ._ .-.II.“~.-_..--..-.I.__.------. -,,,,,,.---___ ~;Ao,~~K~:~I~-!~1-7:~ .I _ . ._.- .I.. .._ _ _ ._... .“. .._. _ ._ .._. -_- .._._...
Date Sept. 18, 1990 Report No. T-RCED-90-108 Title

Natural Resources: Bonneville Unit's Irrigation and Drainage System Is Not Economically Justified

, I United States General Accounting Ofllce / q ,J%?J GA!!0 For Release On Delivery Expected at 9:OO a.m. EDT Tuesday September 18, 1990 Testimony I 'Bonneville Unit's Irrigation and Drainage'System Is Not Economically Justified Statement of James Duffus III, Director Natural Resources Management Issues Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division Before the Subcommittee on Water and Po...
Date Nov. 8, 1989 Report No. RCED-90-18 Title

Water Resources: Problems in Managing Disposal of Material Dredged From San Francisco Bay

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Date Sept. 29, 1989 Report No. AFMD-89-101 Title

Financial Audit: Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation's 1988 Financial Statements

GAO ---.st~,;ltwl,c~r I!)H!) FINANCIAL AUDIT Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation’s 1988 Financial Statements . ..^ -. .._ _ _ .__ -... .._ .______._” ...__I______-_. - ._____ _-_- ..____.--___-_-- ---.--_. .._. - ---- r . GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Comptroller General of the United States B-126007 September 29,1989 To the President of the Senat...
Date Sept. 27, 1989 Report No. RCED-89-212 Title

Nuclear Health and Safety: Policy Implications of Funding DOE's K Reactor Cooling Tower Project

fii V i 2 .-- f = - i , 1 P GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Qmununity, and Economic Development Division B-236604 September27,198Q The Honorable J. James Exon Chairman, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear Deterrence Committee on Armed Services United States Senate The Honorable John M. Spratt, Jr. Chairman, Department of Energy DefenseNuclear ...
Date May 4, 1989 Report No. RCED-89-125 Title

Port Development: Sponsors Have Not Used User Fee Financing to Date

..--... “”II._.._....--...._ -I _. -_-- __-__ May l!)H!t PORT DEVELOPMENT Sponsors Have Not Used User Fee Financing to Date GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20648 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-234603 May 4,1989 The Honorable Quentin N. Burdick, Chairman Committee on Environment and Public Works United States Senate The Honorable Glenn M. ...
Date Aug. 11, 1988 Report No. RCED-88-200BR Title

Water Resources: An In-Depth Look at Overflow Dredging on the Great Lakes

United States General Accounting Office GAO August 1988 Briefing Report to the Co-Chairs, Great Lakes Task Force, U.S. Senate WATER RESOURCES; An In-Depth Look at Overflow Dredging on the Great Lakes RESi’RJCED-Not to be released outside the General Accamting OCice except on the basis of the specific apprmA by the Offke of CongressionalRelations. 25-%5/13G74~ GAO/RCED-WZOOBR Beaourcea’ communl...
Date Aug. 10, 1988 Report No. RCED-88-164 Title

Water Pollution: Efforts to Clean Up Michigan's Rouge River

United GAO : States General Accounting Office Report to the Honorable John p. Dingell, House of Representatives August 1988 WATER POLLUTION Efforts to Clean Up Michigan’s .Rouge River ..RGSTRICTED-Not to be released outsidethe Gend Accounting Office except on the basis of the specific rpoloorl bytheoizicrofcongreasional~ 54aqs GAO/RCED-8&164 \/mi2!~ GAO United States General Accounting Office Wa...
Date April 27, 1988 Report No. NSIAD-88-148 Title

Military Cargo Routing: Allocation of Port Handling Costs

United States General Accounting Office GAO April 1988 Report to the Honorable Marcy Kaptur, *Houseof Representatives MILITARY ROUTING CARGO Allocation of Port Handling Costs 135941 GAO United States General Accounting Office Washin&on, D.C. 20548 National Security and International Affairs Division B-220902 April 27, 1988 The Honorable Marcy Kaptur House of Representatives Dear Ms. Kaptur: In res...
Date Oct. 13, 1983 Report No. 122595 Title

Natural Resources: The 1983 Flooding of the Lower Colorado River

UNITED STATES GENERALACCOUNTINGOFFICE WASHINGTON,D.C. 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY EXPECTED OCTOBER13, 1983 STATEMENTOF ROBERTS. PROCACCINI, SENIOR GROUPDIRECTOR RESOURCES,COMMUNITY, AND ECONOMICDEVELOPMENT DIVISION BEFORETHE HOUSESUBCOMMITTEE INVESTIGATIONS AND OVERSIGHT ON COMMITTEEON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ON THE 1983 FLOODING OF THE LOWERCOLORADO RIVER Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommi...
Date Sept. 2, 1983 Report No. NSIAD-83-34 Title

Financial Management: Examination of the Panama Canal Commission's Financial Statements for the Years Ended September 30, 1982 and 1981

BY THECOMPTROLLERGENERAL Report ToThe Congress OF THEUNITEDSTATES Examination Of The Panama Canal Commission’s Financial Statements For The Years Ended September 30,1982 And 1981 GAO examined the financial statements of the Panama Canal Commission for the years ended September 30, 1982 and 1981. The examination was made in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. In GAO...
Date July 19, 1983 Report No. 088499 Title

Natural Resources: Opportunities To Increase Operation and Maintenance Cost Recovery on Water Projects

UNITED STATES GENERAL WASHINGTON, ACCOUNTING D.C. 20548 OFFICE REsoURCLS. COMMUNITy. AND LCONOMIC DLVLLOIMLN7 DIVISION July Works) 19, 1983 ' The Honorable William R. Gianelli Aissistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Dear Mr. Gianellit Opportunities~to Maintenance-Cost Increase Recovery Subjects Operation on Water and Projects In our August 7, 1981, report entitled "Changes in Federal Water Project...
Date April 11, 1983 Report No. RCED-83-131 Title

Transportation: Need for the 1983 Saint Lawrence Seaway Toll Increase

. REPORT THEUKi BY General Accounting Office Need For The 1983 Saint Lawrence Seaway Toll Increase In GAO’s opinion, the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, the operator of U.S. seaway facilities, needs the additional revenue it will receive from the 1983 seaway toll increase. Even with the additional revenue, the financially self-sustaining Corporation is currently projecting a fisca...
Date Dec. 1, 1982 Report No. RCED-83-57 Title

Environmental Protection: Savings Possible Through Use of Variable Effluent Limits for Advanced Waste Treatment Projects

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 OFFICE RtSOUlrCIS. COMMUNITY, AN0 ICONOMIC OIVLLOWINT DIVISION B-209867 The Honorable Anne M. Gorsuch Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency Subject: 120023 DECEMBER 1,1982 Savings Possible Through Use of Variable Effluent Limits for Advanced Waste Treatment Projects (GAO/RCED-83-57: Dear Ms. Gorsuch: We believe the potential exists f...
Date Nov. 15, 1982 Report No. RCED-83-16 Title

Federal Involvement in the Mount St. Helens Disaster: Past Expenditures and Future Needs

BY THECOMPTROLLERGENERAL Report To The Congress OF THEUNITEDSTATES Federal Involvement In The Mount St. Helens Disaster: Past Expenditures And Future Needs The Congress appropriated about $946 million to 12 Federal agencies in response to the May 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, but the appropriations language did not earmark the funds for the disaster. GAO found that 6 of the 12 agencies had ov...
Date Nov. 10, 1981 Report No. CED-82-10 Title

Natural Resources: Information on the Army Corps of Engineers' Contracting for Dredging Work on the Great Lakes

y OFFICE e/l UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING WASHINGTON, D C 20548 4 0 11687 November COMMUNITY DEVELGPMENT AND ECONOMIC DIVISION 10, 1981 B-205392 The donorable United States Dear Senator Sublect. Donald Senate Rlegle: W. Rlegle, Jr. 116870 Infornatlon on tne ;Irqy Contracting for Dredging Lakes ’ (CED-82-10) Cor?s vJork of Znglqeers’ on t?e Great In accordance with your Yay 14, 1981, reques...
Date July 22, 1981 Report No. 115875 Title

Natural Resources: Agency Procedures for Processing Dredging Permits

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 i II llllll 115875 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY EXPECTED WEDNESDAY MORNING JULY 22, 1981 STATEMENTOF HUGH J. WESSINGER, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, SENIOR LEVEL COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTDIVISION BEFORE THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON MERCHANTMARINE AND FISHERIES ON PROCEDURES FOR PROCESSING DREDGING PERMITS MR. CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERSOF THE COMMITTEE:...
Date May 15, 1981 Report No. CED-81-89 Title

Natural Resources: To Continue or Halt the Tenn-Tom Waterway? Information To Help the Congress Resolve the Controversy

\ .a =.mTIQTkb - Hot to be released outside the General Accounting Office except on the basis of specie approval by the Office of Congressional Relations. r (‘3 , we7 7EPORTBY THE ComptroIIer General OF THE UNITEDSTATES RELEASED To Continue Or Halt The Tenn-Tom Waterway? information To Help The Congress Resolve The Controversy The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway continnerate controversy. Ten years ...
Date Feb. 20, 1981 Report No. CED-81-34 Title

Federal-Interstate Compact Commissions: Useful Mechanisms for Planning and Managing River Basin Operations

rl’ ~ ‘# 4, l/WI “fi ,/ b BY THECOMPTROLLERGENERAL mart ToThe Congress OF THElJNlTEDSTATES Federal-Interstate Compact Commissions: Useful Mechanisms For Planning And Managing River Basin Operations Tha Delaware and Susquehanna River Basin Commissions were created to provide a coordinated, comprehensive regional approach to interstate water problems. Many of the issues the commissions are att...
Date Nov. 16, 1979 Report No. CED-80-8 Title

Transportation: American Seaports--Changes Affecting Operations and Development

F&@rt ToThe Congress OF THE UNITEDSTATES - American Seaports-Changes Affecting Operations And Development This overview report discusses thd challenge of adjusting to technological change and environmental and social constraints faced by American seaports. The adjustment has been expensive and many ports are experiencing financial difficulties. Existing trends affecting ports involve --deeper ship...
Date June 27, 1979 Report No. 109827 Title

International Affairs: Panama Canal Treaty Implementing Legislation

United States General Accounting 20548 Washington, D.C. Cffice For Release on Delivery Expected at 1:3c p.r.1. Wednesday, June 27, 1979 Statement J. Director, before the Kenneth International Senate Armed on Panama Mr. Chairman We are operational of the Canal and pleased and Treaty of appear issues Implementing the Committee: before you today in the to discuss the Legislation J of Fasick Division ...
Date June 4, 1979 Report No. ID-79-33 Title

International Affairs: Background Information Bearing Upon Panama Canal Treaty Implementing Legislation

STUDYBY THE STAFF THE U,S. OF , The signing of the Panama Canal Treaty by President Carter and General Torrijos on September 7, 1977, culminated 13 years of negotiations involving four administrations of both parties. The new Treaty will provide an entirely new basis for cooperation between the United States and Panama for operation and defense of the Panama Canal and abrogates all prior agreement...
Date May 22, 1978 Report No. CED-78-96 Title

Natural Resources: Federal Protection and Preservation of Wild and Scenic Rivers Is Slow and Costly

--I_ w TH,: .PTRCUER co1 ~~E~IEI:AL -- OF THELhlli-EDSTATES Federal Protection And Preservation Of Wild And Scenic Rivers Is Slow And Costly Few rivers have beer: added to the national wild and scenic rivers system under the W.ld and Scenic Pivers Act of 1968. The natronal system is growing slowly, and processes for adding rivers are not functioning well. The pr2servat;or-r of rivers currently in ...
Date Oct. 21, 1977 Report No. CED-77-135 Title

Natural Resources: Congressional Clarification Needed on Eligibility for Waivers of Non-Federal Contributions for Dredged Material Confined Disposal Areas

lllIIlllllllllllllnllllllllllllllllllllll LM103712 REPURTOFTHE COMPTROLLERGENERAL OFTHEUNITEDSTATES Congressional Clarification Needed On Eligibility For Waivers Of Non-Federal Contributions For Dredged Material Confined Disposal Areas The Army Corps of Engineers constructs facilities for containing contaminated dredged material on the Great Lakes and other waterways. Unless told otherwise by the ...
Date July 21, 1977 Report No. 102791 Title

Natural Resources: Costs, Alternatives, and Benefits of the Tellico Water Resources Project

DOCUMENT RESUME 02791 A2073163] [Costs, Alternatives, and Benefits of the Tellico Water Resources Project]. Jujy 21, 1977. 9 pp. 6 enclosures 7 pp.). Testimony before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: Resource Protection Subcommittee; by Monte Cnfir"A Jr., Director, Energy and Minerals Div. Issue Area: Water and Water Related Prograrn (2500). Contact: Energy and Minerals Div. B...
Date June 28, 1977 Report No. CED-77-74 Title

Dredging America's Waterways and Harbors: More Information on Environmental and Economic Issues

REPORT TO THE CONGRESS BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES *cc()~;;I\‘- Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllll LM102455 Dredging America’s Waterways And Harbors--More lnfor Needed On Environmental And Economic Issues Corps of Engineers (Civil Functions) 1104 ~1°C Department of the Army a4 Environmental Protection Agency M c@ The effects that dredging and disposing of ...
Date May 11, 1977 Report No. 089012 Title

Government Operations: Survey of Canal Zone Organization's Fiscal Year 1977--Capital Investment Program

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE INTERNATIONAL LATIN AMERICAN E/o AMERICAN OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR DIVISION BRANCH EMBASSY Box2016, BALBOA,~ANAL ZONE May 11, 1977 Mr Walter D BJorseth Flnanclal Vice President Panama Canal Company Balboa Heights, Canal Zone Dear Mr BJorseth The General Accounting Offlce has completed a survey of the Canal Organlzatlon's fiscal year 1977 Capital Investment Pro...
Date March 18, 1977 Report No. 102752 Title

Transportation: Maintenance Costs on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Can Be Reduced

C!TICE IlllllllllllllIlllIllIIlllIIIllIllllIIlllIll LM102752 ‘2. 1 ,-. . . .. . . c ‘* _ _.-_-- -- .‘-. __ .1.,I - **c : :, F--- -. . -- _ _. _._ _. . ..----. ----- _ -_ __ ____._. _.- - - _ - _ _ _ - -3- - _-. -_- _--.. ___. - - _-- -. ._ -.--- -- (I> TY k 1: :< u -. -- -- _-._--. - _.- - .-. !‘# - ,-, :’ . 1.1~ ... -’ \’ , :. r .a--.. . j.,‘.” _. .‘Y
Date March 18, 1977 Report No. 089034 Title

Transportation: Maintenance Costs on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Can Be Reduced

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, DC 20548 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC DIVISION si\$” Lieutenant General Chief of Engineers Corps of Engineers Department of the Washlngton, D.C. Dear General Morris J W Morris "$d- Army We recently completed a survey of the Corps of Englneers' operation and maintenance actlvltles on the lntracoastal waterways (Code 08007) The survey was p...
Date Nov. 20, 1975 Report No. RED-76-35 Title

Transportation: Factors To Be Considered in Setting Future Policy for Use of Inland Waterways

REPORT TO THE CONGRESS Factors To Be Considered In Setting Future Policy For Use Of Inland Waterways Si rice 1950 tonnage transported on the Nation’s inland waterways--built and maintained with Federal funds--has doubled and the ton-miles have increased almost fivefold. Although the inland waterways include less than 3 percent of the miles in the Nation’s transportation system, they account fo...
Date Aug. 1, 1975 Report No. FOD-76-1 Title

Financial Management: Audit of Financial Statements of Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, Calendar Year 1974

27 i . . . . . . *_ 2 lllllllllllllllllllll LM09686P \ tatements Seaway Developme ar Year Department of Transportation This report includes GAO’s opinion that the financial statements of the Corporation present fairly its position as of December 31, 1974 and 1973, the results of its operations for the calendar years then ended, the source and application of its funds for the calendar year 1974, ...
Date May 25, 1971 Report No. 094426 Title

Environmental Protection: GAO Reviews of Federal Water Pollution Control Program

094426 United States General Accounting O f f i c e Washington, D.C. 20548 -'yz ~ -- For Release on Delivery Expected at 10 AM EST May 25, 1971 STATEMENT OF B. STAATS, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS fl Yo" HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE REVIEWS OF FEDERAL WATER POLLUTIOPJ CONTROL PROGRAM ELplER 7 M r . Chairman and members of th...