Science Academy Panel Calls For Outside Review of Corps Studies
A National Academy of Sciences panel has recommended that outside specialists should review Corps of Engineers feasibility studies for big water projects.
The NAS report, released July 25, provides strong backup for environmentalists' long campaign for third-party vetting of Corps analyses. The NAS committee says that panels composed of "impartial, highly qualified experts" should review Corps studies "that are expensive, that will affect a large area, that are highly controversial or that involve high levels of risk."