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Orange County Coastal Regional Sediment Management Plan 1.3.1 National RSM Demonstration Program The National RSM Demonstration Program is headed by USACE. USACE has a unique role in the implementation of RSM. The mission areas of USACE generally include navigation, environmental restoration, coastal storm damage reduction, and flood reduction. In particular, the mission area of ensuring the navigability of our Nation’s waterways involves removing, transporting, and placing sediment, and in some cases providing material that is utilized to support the other mission areas. In planning, designing, and executing RSM, USACE works towards consensus with state and local partners. In 1994, the Coastal Engineer Research Board was tasked with developing future directions that USACE should take. Task forces and working groups were formed, and by 1998 the concept of RSM was fully developed. The Mobile District of USACE was the first district to step forward with a RSM demonstration plan that received Congressional support in 1999. Separately, the grassroots movement for RSM grew with USACE districts pursuing RSM initiatives with state and local partnerships. In late 2000, the National RSM Demonstration Program expanded to include five additional sites in the United States, with Orange County being within the South Pacific Division demonstration site. USACE’s National RSM Demonstration Program was started largely through the Coastal Engineer Research Board initiative together with strong United States Congressional support from several coastal and Great Lakes states. The goals of the National RSM Demonstration Program are as follows: • To improve sediment management practice within USACE. • To highlight and document unique elements of RSM and provide guidance for future implementation of specific RSM actions as appropriate. • To foster state and local partnerships for RSM, resulting in a unified vision, cost sharing, and co-leadership of RSM actions. • To engage cross-mission objectives of USACE. (e.g., achieve storm protection, navigation, and environmental restoration all in one project.) • To define environmental and economic benefits for RSM. • To improve decision support technology for RSM. The intent of the National RSM Demonstration Program within USACE is to improve the management of coastal sediment resources, with consideration of the sedimentshed (from the riverheads, through the estuaries, and into the coasts). The program has been designed to accomplish this goal by minimizing the interruption of natural sediment transport processes or by enhancing these processes to maximize environmental and economic benefits. Implementation of RSM, both from the grassroots level prior to implementation of the national Everest International Consultants, Inc. 1.5
Orange County Coastal Regional Sediment Management Plan program, and during the National RSM Demonstration Program has resulted in partnerships among USACE, state, local, and other federal offices, some of which are cost-sharing RSM projects. The intended result of state and USACE RSM initiatives is improved methods for managing sediment within our nation’s waterways, with advances in conceptual, analytical, and numerical models, field measurement techniques, and implementation within Geographic Information System (GIS) frameworks to support regional studies. 1.3.2 California Coastal Sediment Management Workgroup The CSMW is a collaborative effort by federal, state, and local agencies and non-governmental organizations working to address California’s coastal sediment management needs on a regional and system-wide basis. CSMW was formed to help resolve the fact that site-specific solutions to coastal erosion/sedimentation problems historically did not examine regional contributions to the problem, hence the need for RSM. One of CSMW’s main goals is to pursue innovative ways to solve coastal erosion problems along the California coast, often through beneficial use of sediment (i.e., sand) to fortify eroding beaches. State membership includes the California Natural Resources Agency, California Department of Boating and Waterways (CDBW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Coastal Commission (CCC), California Geological Survey, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission(BCDC), California State Coastal Conservancy (SCC), California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG), California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and the California State Lands Commission (CSLC). Federal membership includes USACE, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). Nongovernmental organization membership includes the California Coastal Coalition and the California Marine Affairs and Navigation Conference. The California Natural Resources Agency and USACE jointly chair the taskforce. 1.3.3 California Coastal Sediment Master Plan State and federal agencies are now looking for an efficient blend of scientific techniques and public policies to facilitate regional inter-agency cooperative initiatives to protect, enhance and restore California’s important coastal resources through a system-wide sediment management approach. In order to support these needs and facilitate implementation of RSM throughout the entire California coast, CDBW and USACE, with oversight by CSMW, have embarked on a multi-year effort to compile a California Coastal Sediment Master Plan (CSMP) (California CSMW 2006, California CSMW 2009, California CSMW 2012). Goals of the California CSMP are to prioritize sediment management needs, streamline the permitting process, make information widely available, connect managers of areas of sediment deficit and those with excess sediment, and facilitate implementation of sediment projects. The California CSMP takes a watershed-based approach at a regional scale to formulate courses of action or strategies to solve coastal resources problems. The planning effort includes Everest International Consultants, Inc. 1.6
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