The overall objective of this manual is to provide risk assessors with the recommended basic/minimum requirements for developing scopes of work, evaluating Architect-Engineer (A-E) prepared human health risk assessments, and documenting risk management options associated with Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (HTRW) investigations, studies, and designs consistent with principles of good science in defining the quality of risk assessments. This EM is intended for use by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Project Managers, technical personnel, and contractor personnel.
The overall objective of this manual is to provide risk assessors with the recommended basic/minimum requirements for developing scopes of work, evalu...
This circular provides United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) guidance for incorporating the direct and indirect physical effects of projected future sea-level change in managing, planning, engineering, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining USACE projects and systems of projects. Recent climate research by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts continued or accelerated global warming for the 21st Century and possibly beyond, which will cause a continued or accelerated rise in global mean sea-level. Impacts to coastal and estuarine zones caused by...
This circular provides United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) guidance for incorporating the direct and indirect physical effects of projected ...
Risk involves exposure to a chance of injury or loss. The fact that risk inherently involves chance leads directly to a need to describe and to deal with uncertainty. Corps policy has long been (1) to acknowledge risk and the uncertainty in predicting floods and flood impacts, and (2) to plan accordingly. Historically, that planning relied on analysis of the expected long-term performance of flood-damage-reduction measures, on application of safety factors and freeboard, on designing for worst-case scenarios, and on other indirect solutions to compensate for uncertainty. These indirect...
Risk involves exposure to a chance of injury or loss. The fact that risk inherently involves chance leads directly to a need to describe and to deal w...