PACIFIC OCEAN DIVISION

PACIFIC OCEAN DIVISION

• Integrates and employs engineer capabilities to deliver solutions that promote security and stability in the Indo- Pacific region and protects the nation through its 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 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

• Spans 16 time zones.

• Covers 52 percent of the Earth’s surface and includes halfof the world’s population.

• Includes the four most-populous nations, the 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 defense agencies the infrastructure to operate effectively, sustain readiness, and enhance quality of life. The Pacific Ocean Division (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.

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• A multibillion dollar, multiyear U.S.-Japan Defense Policy Review Initiative results in the rebuilding of 77 percent 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.

• 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 a better framework to better manage project planning in Japan.

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

• Conducted more than 400 partner capacity-building activities in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region since 2012, sharing best practice 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 constructionprojects in eight countries.

• Executed or planning 70-plus capacity building engagements and activities in 16 countries during FY 19.

• 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 depend on commercial and subsistence navigation. Anchorage Harbor is designated as one of only 19 Department of Defense “strategic seaports.”

• Maintains 273,600 square miles of wetlands, about 7,390 miles of coastline, 34,960 miles of tidal coastlands, and 89 ports or small boat harbors. The professional management of these resources has resulted in no serious environmental incident or loss of aquatic habitat for 25years.

• Takes its role as environmental steward very seriously. 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 19 while balancing reasonable development with protection of the waters of the United States. Currently, the team is processing a permit application for a proposed gold mine in Alaska that would become the largest in the world – if permitted – at an estimated value of $1 trillion.

• 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 19. 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 FEMA 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 percent of the world’s natural disasters occur.

• Depends on a diverse and exceptional blend of all engineering and support competencies from its POD team of 1,600-strong active-duty military, U.S., and host-nation civilian engineers, scientists, and support staff to accomplish its mission. Agile and adaptive leaders and empowered team members are the strength and foundation of the Pacific Ocean Division.

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

Unit 15546 APO AP 96205-5546 (011) 82-2-270-7501 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/fedpa 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