Federal Guidelines for Dam Safety (FEMA 93) apply to management practices for dam safety of all Federal agencies responsible for the planning, design, construction, operation, or regulation of dams. The basic principles of the guidelines apply to all dams. However, reasonable judgments need to be made in their application commensurate with each dam’s size, complexity, and hazard.
These guidelines represent the culmination of efforts, initiated by President Carter in April 1977, to review procedures and criteria used by Federal Agencies involved in the design, construction, operation, and regulation of dams and to prepare guidelines for management procedures to ensure dam safety.
The overall purpose of these guidelines is to enhance national dam safety. The immediate objective is to encourage high safety standards in the practices and procedures Federal agencies use or require of those they regulate for dam site investigation, design, construction, operation and maintenance, and emergency preparedness. As these guidelines are directly applied to make Federal dams as safe as practical, it is hoped that they will also influence state dam safety agencies and public and private dam owners to be more safety conscious where programs are now weak.
Sources: FEMA 93. Federal Guidelines for Dam Safety, 2004
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