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and its surrounding watershed (with an eye toward filling information gaps and <br /> using existing sophisticated plans as a springboard for technical investigations and <br /> detailed plan alternatives). <br /> • Creating a watershed - scaled, detailed framework of on- ground project concepts <br /> and other types of solutions to identified problems - including a range of <br /> constructed, passive, and practice- oriented actions. <br /> • Preliminarily formulate site - specific on- ground projects /answers at the priority <br /> locations. <br /> • Coordinate with the basin -wide ESA consultation currently ongoing for the <br /> Corps' Willamette Valley Project, and the Corps' Willamette Floodplain GI study <br /> (which is just now also commencing near /within the metro area). <br /> • Examining the large number of institutional, jurisdiction, and partnership <br /> considerations at work here, and formulating an implementation framework which <br /> is responsive to those realities. <br /> • Conceive a logical implementation program for our answers — akin to a local <br /> government capital improvement program ( "CIP ") — for systematically <br /> implementing the projects and other solutions arising from the study. <br /> The watershed framework and specific project formulations feed off of each other. We <br /> will use the applied technical information, techniques, and methods developed in the <br /> "laboratory" provided by the priority /project areas to test and refine concepts and <br /> solutions within the framework. Conversely, understandings from the watershed <br /> dimension are critical to properly formulating solutions that actually address causal <br /> factors at any given waterway /locality. <br /> The eventual watershed framework product will be a strategic /action plan - comprised of <br /> specific tactical recommendations including identified projects, practice -based solutions <br /> (including protection), and institutional actions (including research, monitoring, <br /> evaluation, adaptive management and other implementing mechanisms). These will be <br /> laid out in a spatially and temporally, in a way that will poise the community to finish the <br /> detailed formulation and implementation of those recommended actions in an progressive <br /> manner - as resources and partnerships allow. <br /> Specific waterway projects — whenever they are fully developed - will be planned, <br /> engineered, and designed according to normal Corps procedures. The local communities <br /> of this area are familiar with these conventions. We cannot forecast at the study outset <br /> which and how many such projects would be developed. <br /> COORDINATION <br /> Study work will be conducted via extensive teamwork. There is going to be high levels <br /> of steering, coordination and participation from the three local sponsors - the cities of <br /> Eugene and Springfield, and Lane County; and additional significant cooperation and <br /> participation required of the four area watershed councils, the federal and state natural <br /> resource agencies, non - government organizations, and the public. Proper coordination <br /> among all these study participants is essential to maintain the project schedule, avoid <br /> duplication of efforts, detect problems in a timely manner, and to maintain agreement and <br /> 3 <br />