Appendix B

Corps of Engineers Civil Works Program Statistics¹

FACTS:

1. PEOPLE

— Civilian employee work years (FTE’s), FY 2011: 23,232

— Military personnel authorized: 294

2. DIVISIONS & DISTRICTS:

— Number of division offices with Civil Works mission: 8

— Number of district offices: 38

3. FUNDING:

Fiscal Year 2010 appropriations: $5.657 billion

— Regular Appropriation: $5.440 billion

— Supplemental Appropriations: $217 million

• — Construction: $2.031 billion
• — Operation and Maintenance: $2.573 billion
• — Mississippi River and Tributaries: $359 million
• — Investigations (e.g. new project studies): $165 million
• — Regulatory Program: $190 million
• — Formerly Used Sites Remedial Action Pgm. (FUSRAP radiological environmental cleanup): $134 million
• — Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies: $20 million
• — Expenses and Other: $185 million

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¹ Statistics are for September 30, 2010, unless otherwise specified

— Other Revenue (estimated)

• — Non-federal (cost-sharing—estimated): $893 million
• — Coastal Wetlands Restoration Trust: $85 million
• — Permanent appropriation: $17 million

— Total program: $6.652 billion

4. FUNDING BY BUSINESS LINE, FY 2010 appropriations:

• — Navigation: $1.822 billion (32.1%)
• — Flood Risk Management: $1.942 billion (34.2%)
• — Environmental (Including FUSRAP& Infrastructure): $984 million (17.4%)
• — Regulatory Programs: $190 million (3.3%)
• — Hydropower: $211 million (3.7%)
• — Recreation: $284 million (5%)
• — Emergency Management: $34 million (0.6%)
• — Water Supply: $5 million (0.1%)
• — Executive Direction & Other: $185 million (3.3%)

5. APPROPRIATIONS FOR CIVIL WORKS, PAST 50 YEARS (FY 1961-2010): $176,370,623,000

— Adjusted for inflation to Sep 2010: $358,473,303,000

6. PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, FY 10: 1,167

— Specifically authorized by Congress: 434

• — Flood Risk Management: 191
• — Hydropower: 5
• — Navigation: 147
• — Environmental (Including FUSRAP): 39
• — Environmental Infrastructure: 52

— “Continuing Authorities” Projects: 733 (Nine authorities, including environmental)

7. FUNDS OBLIGATED, FY 2010 (Current program and prior year funding carryover): $11,584,480,700

8. CONTRACTS LET, FY09: $9.07 billion

• — To Small Businesses: $3.87 billion (42.7%)
• — Small Disadvantaged Firms: $973 million (10.7%)

9. DAMS owned/operated by Corps (all purposes) 692

• — Dams built by Corps but operated by others: 103
• — Tallest dam: Dworshak Dam, North Fork Clearwater River, ID, 717 ft.

10. REAL ESTATE

— USACE owns 136,000 land tracts, totaling more than 7.6 million acres (~11,875 square miles)

— USACE manages another 4.1 million acres (~6,400 square miles)

— Total lake surface area at full pool: 26.25 million acres (41,015 square miles–area slightly larger than Kentucky)

— Largest lake: Lake Oahe, ND & SD, 587.5 square miles

11. NAVIGATION

— States served by Corps ports & waterways: 41 (including all States east of Mississippi River)

— Commercial inland channels operated/ maintained: 12,000 miles

— Percentage of U.S. domestic freight carried by water (by ton-miles, 2007, excluding air & pipeline): 16%

— Navigation lock chambers: 238 at 192 sites

• — Locks chambers in operation over 50 years old: 138; Average age of locks: 58 years
• — Combined lift of all Corps locks: 6,498 ft.
• — Highest: John Day Lock, Columbia R., OR, 110 ft.
• — Most cargo moved: Ohio River Lock #52, 80 million tons (2009)

— Coastal, Great Lakes and inland harbors maintained by Corps: 926

• — Harbors handling over 250,000 tons of cargo: 183 (111 coastal, 46 Great Lakes, 26 inland) (2009)
• — Port handling most cargo: South Louisiana, 212.6 million tons (2009)
• — Value of foreign commerce handled at ports (2009): $1.156 trillion

— Tonnage handled by U.S. ports and waterways (2009): 2,211 million tons

• — Inbound foreign: 858.9 million tons, Outbound foreign: 494.8 million tons, Domestic: 857.1 million tons
• — Major commodities: Crude oil, 515.3 million tons; petroleum
  products, 501.1 million tons;
  coal & coke, 290.9 million tons;
  food & farm products, 279 million tons

12. DREDGING

— Material dredged (construction and maintenance, 2009): 263.6 million cubic yards—enough to fill a football field to a depth of 12 miles

— Cost: $1,344.1 million. Average cost per cubic yard: $5.10

— Percentage of material dredged by private firms: 82.2%

• — Companies dredging for Corps: 51 (33 small businesses) submitted 363 bids for 183 contracts (87 of which went to small & emerging businesses)
• — Percentage of dredging funds going to contractors: 89.2%

— Corps-owned dredges: 11 (4 hopper, 7 other)

13. FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT

— Dams managed by Corps: 692, at 557 dam projects

— Federal levees built or controlled by Corps: ~11,750 miles

— Damages prevented by Corps projects, 2009: $29.5 billion

— Average annual damages prevented by Corps projects (2000-2009): $22.3 billion

— Damages prevented per $1 invested (adjusted for inflation), 1928-2009: $7.17

14. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION/RESTORATION

— Largest projects ($20M+ in FY10):

• South Florida Ecosystem Restoration
• Columbia River Fish & Wildlife Mitigation,
• Missouri River Fish & Wildlife Mitigation
• Louisiana Coastal Area Ecosystem Restoration (investigation)
• Upper Mississippi River Restoration

15. REGULATORY PROGRAM

— Final Actions, FY10: 68,800

• — Standard Permits and Letters of Permission: 3,700
• — Activities covered by Regional General Permits: 13,470
• — Covered by Programmatic General Permits: 6,900
• — Covered by Nationwide Permits: 31,900
• — Permits Denied: 275
• — Permits Modified: 3,100
• — Applications Withdrawn: 10,200
• — “No Permit Required” Determinations: 9,810

— Percent of minor permits completed within 60 days: 92%

— Jurisdictional Determinations: 63,100

— Number of approved mitigation banks: 665

— Compliance visits done on 17% of mitigation sites and 34% of mitigation banks or In Lieu Fee sites

16. HYDROPOWER

— Number of projects in operation: 75, with 350 generating units

— Installed generating capacity: 23,764 megawatts

— Largest USACE power plants:

• — Capacity—2,484 megawatts, John Day Dam, Columbia River, OR;
• — Most units: 27, Chief Joseph Dam, Columbia River, WA
• — Largest generating unit: 220 megawatts, Dworshak Dam, North Fork Clearwater River, ID

— Annual power generation: 68 billion kilowatt-hours

— Annual gross revenue generated: approx. $4 billion

— Repayment to U.S. Treasury from power sales (estimate): $800 million

— Value of Hydropower Assets (2007): approx. $20 billion

— Rank among U.S. hydropower producers: #1

— USACE owns & operates 24% of U.S. hydropower capacity, or 3% of total U.S. electric capacity

— FERC licensed non-federal power plants at Corps facilities (not counted above): 90, with 2,300 megawatts capacity

17. RECREATION

— Rank among Federal providers of Outdoor Recreation: #1

— Visits per year: 370 million

— 10% of U.S. population visits a Corps project at least once each year

— Number of sites: 4,254 at 422 Corps projects (mostly lakes)

• — more than 90% of the lakes are near metropolitan areas (within 50 miles of a MSA)

— Land & water used for recreation: 12 million acres

• — USACE hosts 20% of visits to Federal recreation areas on 2% of Federal lands

— Miles of shoreline: 54,879

— Number of campsites: 92,674

— Miles of trails: 6,864

— Number of boat launch ramps: 3,603

— Share of all U.S. freshwater lake fishing: 33%

• — 20,000 fishing tournaments a year

— Spent by visitors at Corps projects: $18 billion

• — Jobs (full or part time) supported by visitation: 350,000

— Concessionaires on Corps projects: 500, with gross fixed assets of $1 billion

— Volunteers at Corps projects: 54,917; Hours worked: 1.4 million, Value of their labor: $28.3 million

18. WATER SUPPLY

— Total capacity of Corps lakes: 329.2 million acre-feet

— Total authorized municipal & industrial water supply storage: 9.76 million acre-feet

— Total investment associated with municipal & industrial water supply storage: $1.5 billion

— Projects with authorized municipal & industrial water supply storage: 136, in 25 States plus Puerto Rico

— Projects with authorized irrigation storage: 48

19. EMERGENCY OPERATIONS

— Major disasters responded to in 2010: 20

• — Largest events: Hurricane Earl; Flooding in Nashville, Midwest, Arizona and California; Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Haiti Earthquake.

— Corps members deployed to emergency operations: 855

20. SUPPORT TO OTHER (NON-DEFENSE) GOVERNMENT AGENCIES:

— Number of Federal agencies supported: 70+

— Expenditures for FY10: $2 billion

— Biggest Customers:

• — Dept. of State, $ 630 million
• — Dept. of Veterans Affairs, $348.7 million
• — Environmental Protection Agency, $308.2 million
• — Dept. of Homeland Security – Customs and Border Protection, $254.2 million