In April 1977, President Carter issued a memorandum directing the
review of federal dam safety activities by an ad hoc panel of
recognized experts. In June 1979, the ad hoc interagency committee
on dam safety (ICODS) issued its report, which contained the first
guidelines for federal agency dam owners. The Federal Guidelines
for Dam Safety (Guidelines) encourage strict safety standards in
the practices and procedures employed by the federal agencies or
required of dam owners regulated by the federal agencies. The
Guidelines address management practices and procedures but do not
attempt to establish technical standards. They provide the most
complete and authoritative statement available of the desired
management practices for promoting dam safety and the welfare of
the public. To supplement the Guidelines, ICODS prepared and
approved federal guidelines in the areas of emergency action
planning; earthquake analysis and design of dams; selecting and
accommodating inflow design floods for dams; and glossary of terms.
These publications, based on the most current knowledge and
experience available, provided authoritative statements on the
state of the art for these important technical areas involving dam
safety. In 1994, the ICODS Subcommittee to Review/Update Federal
Guidelines began an update to these guidelines to meet the new dam
safety challenges and to ensure consistency across agencies and
users. In addition, the ICODS Subcommittee on Federal/Non-Federal
Coordination developed a new guideline on hazard potential
classification systems for dams. With the passage of the National
Dam Safety Program Act of 1996, Public Law 104-303, ICODS and its
Subcommittees were reorganized to reflect the objectives and
requirements of Public Law 104-303. In 1998, the newly convened
Guidelines Development Subcommittee completed work on the update of
the following guidelines: Federal Guidelines for Dam Safety:
Emergency Action Planning for Dam Owners, FEMA 64, October 1998,
reprinted April 2004; Federal Guidelines for Dam Safety: Selecting
and Accommodating Inflow Design Floods for Dams, FEMA 94, October
1998, reprinted April 2004; Federal Guidelines for Dam Safety:
Hazard Potential Classification Systems for Dams, FEMA 333, October
1998, reprinted April 2004. With the amendment of the Act into the
National Dam Safety and Security Act of 2002, Public Law 107-310,
former ICODS Subcommittees were reorganized under the National Dam
Safety Review Board (NDSRB). In 2004, two task groups finalized the
ongoing work of the previous Subcommittee on the update of the
following guidelines: Federal Guidelines for Dam Safety: Glossary
of Terms, FEMA 148, printed April 2004; Federal Guidelines for Dam
Safety: Earthquake Analyses and Design of Dams, FEMA 65, printed
May 2005. The publication of these guidelines marks the final step
in the review and update process. In recognition of the continuing
need to enhance dam safety through coordination and information
exchange amongst federal and state agencies, the NDSRB will assume
responsibility for maintaining these documents and establishing
additional guidelines that will help achieve the objectives of the
National Dam Safety Program. The NDSRB has established a task group
and work is currently underway to prepare an update to the ground
motions portion of this document with new research and
methodologies.
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