There are 78 personnel working on the levee repair and associated restoration effort. In an effort to improve Federal flood response and floodplain management in the future, the Clinton Administration challenged Federal agencies to look at non-structural alternatives instead of structural repairs to levee systems. Thus, the Office of Management and Budget in coordination with the Council on Environmental Quality designated the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as the lead Federal agency to facilitate this effort. The Corps convened an Interagency Task Force on 3 March 1997 to review floodplain management and procedures for evaluation and review of levee and associated restoration projects. The Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Transportation are not actively participating.
Agencies continue to struggle with their respective workloads.
The agencies have been reminded that they must become involved early in the process, if the non-structural alternatives program is to be addressed appropriately. This effort was a continuation of the Outreach Program. See enclosure 1. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District has initiated the property and topo survey to determine existing FCW design elevation and the impact on adjacent landowners of abandonment of the existing levee. A draft PCA has been completed and forwarded for their review.