§2353 — Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary must create a structural health monitoring program to check and improve infrastructure built and kept by the Corps of Engineers. The program must include research and systems for flood and earthquake response, steps to reduce damage before disasters, ways to make structures last longer, and finding risks from sea level rise. While making the program, the Secretary must talk with academic and other experts. The Secretary must also look at models for maintenance and repair records, build models that use real-time measurements and environmental data to show wear, and study using inspection notes and observations as stand-in sensors.

Title 33, §2353

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(a)The Secretary shall design and develop a structural health monitoring program to assess and improve the condition of infrastructure constructed and maintained by the Corps of Engineers, including research, design, and development of systems and frameworks for—

(1)response to flood and earthquake events;

(2)predisaster mitigation measures;

(3)lengthening the useful life of the infrastructure; and

(4)identifying risks due to sea level rise.

(b)In developing the program under subsection (a), the Secretary shall—

(1)consult with academic and other experts; and

(2)consider models for maintenance and repair information, the development of degradation models for real-time measurements and environmental inputs, and research on qualitative inspection data as surrogate sensors.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 2016, and also as part of the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act, also known as the WIIN Act, and not as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

“Secretary” Defined Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 1002 of Pub. L. 114–322, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.

§2353 Structural health monitoring

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Title 33, §2353

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