Important News Items
April 29, 2024 For the past 20+ years, the Recreation Business Line has been building a database of accurate and reliable inventory information to include a static number of Project Site Areas (PSAs) and facilities for budgeting and reporting purposes. Therefore, very few changes or corrections should be needed. Since the USACE Recreation budget has remained flat or slightly decreasing with inflation, now is not the time to grow our program. We are focused on ensuring USACE recreation program shall not gain any additional financial liabilities (new PSAs, new facilities, or other amenities) unless there is an equivalent decrement to the program somewhere else to balance it out. You will hear us repeat this program philosophy a lot: NO NET GAIN IN PROGRAM LIABILITIES. With that being stated; any corrections and/or additions must include a justification and supporting documentation that will be reviewed and approved before being added to the national inventory database. Exceptions will be made on a case-by-case basis. To assist with correction/addition requests and in place of the annual review, visit the PSA (Recreation Area) Quality Assurance Tool in NRM Assessment Tool – Recreation PSA module (https://gateway.erdc.dren.mil/nrm/rec-best/nrm.cfm). The PSA Module will be utilized for quality control and assurance of our recreation areas and associated data. This new tool allows for the review of existing PSAs and associated data online, the ability to indicate corrections for each field, and the creation of a PDF, corrections highlighted, that must be routed for approval signatures. The tool also has the ability to create the PDF for new PSA requests. For a correction/addition request to be considered for inclusion into CWBI- OPS, the deadline for fiscal year submittals will be June 30 of each year. Corrections will be accepted anytime up through the DEADLINE to be implemented in the current Fiscal Year for CWBI-OPS and to be available for the PSA Detail section and RecAssessment. CWBI-OPS is an important database which feeds into multiple other systems (RecAssessment, CWIFD, VERS, CorpsLakes, OCA, etc.,) and plays a vital role in the recreation budgeting process. All requests must come with approval at ALL levels (Project, District, Division). The HQ Recreation BLM will make the final decision following a review and recommendation from the NRM User’s Group. For questions, please reach out to the NRM User’s Group.
Please make sure this gets the attention to detail it deserves. As we move further every year into our S3 (Similar Costs, Similar Activities, Similar Projects) efforts, this is some of the data we rely on to make critical decisions, guided by the work you are doing here. Thank you for your attention and dedication to this very important effort. Ryan Hartwig
New PSA Quality Assurance Tool to be utilized for corrections to Project Recreation Areas - Suspense 20 June 2024
Leaders and Colleagues, please help me ensure this message reaches all levels of the program,
National Recreation Program Manager
Natural Resources Management Branch
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Updated: May 2024
