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<br />The Corps of Engineers has responsibility for flood control and for <br />-major drainage". Major drainage for urban areas (20), (24), (26) includes <br />works that will provide "outlets" for drainage from organized drainage <br />.entities, such as municipalities and drainage districts. This has been <br />further defined by policy to indicate that there is a federal interest in <br />storm drainage works that will manage stormwater flows that exceed the <br />lO-year recurrence interval runoff or the local design capacity, whichever <br />is greater. In effect, the federal interest in many instances extends into <br />regional urban areas in the same sense as many of the regional flood con- <br />trol and county organizations. <br />These multiple jurisdictions provide a great deal of flexibility in <br />financing possibilities; however, the dispersion of responsibility tends <br />to cause jurisdictional problems in the implementation phase. It is not <br />uncommon for three, four, or even five separate jurisdictions to be involved <br />within one urban region in the planning, design, and implementation of storm <br />drainage works. A case in point is discussed below. <br /> <br />An Example - Institutions and Implementatio~ <br />A storm drainge plan has been developed and much effort devoted to <br />implementation for the Salt Lake City vicinity. Many of the institutional <br />and Jurisdictional probiems involved in the planning, design, and implementa- <br />tion of storm drainage systems are evident. The surfacing of the problem <br />occurred by the usual ci rcumstances; a number of severe storms occurred <br />that caused considerable damage. At about the same time, a regional planning <br />activity had begun in earnest and it was recognized that development within <br />the basin would aggravate flooding in downstream areas. <br />31 <br />