PACIFIC OCEAN DIVISION

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Pacific Ocean Division (POD):

• Integrates and employs engineer capabilities to deliver revolutionary solutions that promote security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region and protect the nation, through the resilient workforce of USACE’s four engineer districts – Alaska, Far East, Honolulu, and Japan – located across the U.S. Indo- Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) and U.S. Northern Command areas of responsibility.

• Operates in a complex and diverse region that encompasses the largest area of division responsibility within USACE:

• Spans 16 time zones;

• Covers 52% of the Earth’s surface and includes half of the world’s population; and

• Includes the four most-populous nations, two largest democracies, seven of the world’s 10 largest armies, and five of seven U.S. mutual defense treaties.

• Enables basing, force projection, protection, and sustainment by providing Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps forces and Department of Defense (DOD) agencies the infrastructure to operate effectively, sustain readiness, and enhance quality of life. POD is responsible for three of the four largest military/host-nation construction programs since the end of the Cold War, totaling nearly $28 billion:

• The $10.7 billion, multiyear, massive Korea Relocation Program includes the construction of 655 new and renovated facilities, which will enable the relocation of approximately 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea to U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys in support of the United States-Republic of Korea Alliance;

• A multibillion-dollar, multiyear U.S.-Japan Defense Policy Review Initiative resulting in the rebuilding of 77% of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni;

• The Okinawa Consolidation and Futenma Replacement Facility’s scope of work includes 400 projects, which will reduce the U.S. military’s footprint in Okinawa. These projects highlight the nation’s commitment to the U.S.- Japan Alliance; and

• Hosts meetings and conferences with U.S. military service components and Japanese Alliance partners to adapt processes to improve construction, address acceptable unified facilities criteria alternatives, and develop an improved framework to better manage project planning in Japan.

• Strengthens relationships and builds partner capacity and all-hazards response through disaster risk management, technical engineering, water security, humanitarian assistance, and Foreign Military Sales activities. POD works closely with INDOPACOM, U.S. Army Pacific, and its interagency partners in a “whole of government” approach to train and develop local leaders, engineers, and organizations, while conducting general engineering tasks with its partners so that they may effectively protect and govern their citizens:

• Conducted more than 400 partner-capacity building activities in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region since 2012, sharing best practices and lessons learned; providing subject-matter expert exchanges; enhancing trust and communication; and enabling alliances and partnerships;

• Delivered more than 300 INDOPACOM humanitarian assistance (HA) “brick and mortar” construction projects, such as schools, clinics, blood banks, wells, and emergency shelters since 2007;

• Currently managing nearly 44 INDOPACOM HA construction projects in eight countries; and

• Executed or is planning 70-plus capacity-building engagements and activities in 16 countries during FY 2019.

• Executes integrated water resource management in Hawaii, Alaska, the U.S. territories of Guam and American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. POD delivers enduring and essential water resources solutions and infrastructure, which includes navigation (deep-water commercial ports, small boat harbors, and harbors of refuge); flood and coastal risk management; and aquatic ecosystem restoration:

• Maintains 89 harbors to ensure safe and efficient operations, enabling more that 65 million tons of cargo to pass annually in Alaska and Hawaii – locations that are highly dependent on commercial and subsistence navigation. Anchorage Harbor is designated as one of only 19 DOD strategic seaports; and

• Maintains 273,600 square miles of wetlands, about 7,390 miles of coastlines, 34,960 miles of tidal coastlands, and 89 ports or small boat harbors in its area of responsibility.

• Delivers results as the nation’s environmental engineers:

• Protects the nation’s aquatic resources, while allowing reasonable development through fair, flexible, and balanced permit decisions. Notably, the state of Hawaii is ranked first in the nation with 454 listings of endangered species;

• Processed more than 4,500 Regulatory Program actions during FY 2020, while balancing reasonable development with protection of the waters of the United States; and

• Protects the public and restores the environment through the Defense Environmental Restoration Program for Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) in Alaska and Hawaii, with an approximate amount of more than 180 projects and more than $58 million in clean-up actions during FY 2020. One example is the Waikoloa site on the island of Hawaii, where more than 29,000 acres of this 123,000-plus-acre site have been cleared of more than 2,400 munitions and explosives of concern. This is the largest active FUDS site nationwide.

• Supports the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the National Response Framework, with engineering resources for disaster response and the recovery of public works and critical infrastructure in a region where 80% of the world’s natural disasters occur.

• Depends on a diverse and exceptional blend of all engineering and support competencies from its 1,600-member POD team of active-duty military, U.S. and host-nation civilian engineers, scientists, and support staff to accomplish its mission. The strength and foundation of the Pacific Ocean Division is the agile, adaptive leaders and workforce who adopt revolutionary approaches while empowering team members to accomplish the mission.

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PACIFIC OCEAN DIVISION

Building 525 Fort Shafter, HI 96858-5440

(808) 835-4715

POD-PAO@usace.army.mil

www.pod.usace.army.mil/ www.facebook.com/PODCorps

ALASKA DISTRICT

P.O. Box 6898 Anchorage, AK 99506-0898

(907) 753-2520

Public.Affairs3@usace.army.mil

www.poa.usace.army.mil www.facebook.com/AlaskaCorps www.twitter.com/AlaskaCorps www.flickr.com/AlaskaCorps www.youtube.com/user/AlaskaCorps

FAR EAST DISTRICT

USAEDFE CEPOF-PA Unit 15546 APO AP 96271

(011) 82-50-3355-6300

DLL-CEPOF-PA@usace.army.mil

www.pof.usace.army.mil www.facebook.com/USACE.FED.Korea www.twitter.com/FarEastDistrict www.flickr.com/photos/fedpao www.youtube.com/user/FarEastDistrict

HONOLULU DISTRICT

Building 230, Room 302 Fort Shafter, HI 96858-5440

(808) 835-4004

CEPOH-PA@usace.army.mil

www.poh.usace.army.mil www.facebook.com/HonoluluDistrict www.twitter.com/CorpsHonolulu www.flickr.com/HonoluluDistrict www.youtube.com/HonoluluDistrict

JAPAN DISTRICT

Unit 45010 APO AP 96-338-5010

(011) 81-46-407-3021

CEPOJ-PA@usace.army.mil

www.poj.usace.army.mil www.facebook.com/JapanEngineerDistrict