"Rigorous Eyes on the Corps of Engineers' Work"

Rigorous Eyes on the Corps of Engineers' Work - washingtonpost.com:

"Congress must order independent peer reviews for all U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects -- regardless of their cost -- whenever their performance is critical to the public health, safety and welfare or when their reliability under emergency conditions is critical."

Comment: Sounds pretty reasonable to me. Independent peer review seems a good safeguard for public engineering work. I would suppose that small projects are seldom "critical to public health, safety and welfare. I am not sure what "critical under emergency conditions" means, unless it is already covered in the other criteria. The dikes in New Orleans that failed during Hurricane Katrina were surely critical to public health, safety and welfare. JAD