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Mr. Larry Prather is Deputy Director of Civil Works (Legislation and Planning), Headquarters, US Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, DC.
Mr. Prather joined the Planning Division of the Corps New Orleans District in 1978 where he led studies of deepening the navigation channels of the Mississippi River and modernizing the Louisiana and Texas Sections of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. In 1983, he became Navigation Planning Support Center Coordinator in the Ohio River Division (now Great Lakes and Ohio River Division) with responsibility for coordination and staff oversight of navigation systems analysis for modernization of the Ohio River Navigation System. In 1989, he was appointed Chief, Navigation Planning Branch in the Ohio River Division and led the navigation planning program in the Ohio valley. During his tenure in the Ohio River Division, Congress authorized over $4 billion in new navigation design and construction work load for Ohio System lock and dam modernization. Mr. Prather also was detailed to Headquarters, USACE, as Assistant Chief, Planning Division and Executive Secretary of the Inland Waterways Users Board from April, 1992 to October, 1992 and from October 1993 to November 1994.
In May 1995, Mr. Prather became Chief, Planning Division, Pittsburgh District. Under his leadership, Pittsburgh District initiated new, innovative programs for ecosystem restoration dealing with mine drainage and for nonstructural flood control. In 1996, Mr. Prather was appointed Chief, Policy Guidance Branch at Headquarters US Army Corps of Engineers and in 1998 assumed leadership of the Corps Civil Works legislative program. In 2004, he assumed his current position. Mr. Prather received the Department of the Army Decoration for Meritorious Civil Service in 2000 and the Army Superior Civilian Service Medal in 1994 and 2001. He was awarded the Department of the Army Commander’s Medal for Civilian Service in 1983 and 1996.
He is an economist and a native of Missouri. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri at Columbia and was a doctoral candidate at Rice University, Houston Texas.
Mr. Prather is a Senior Federal government leader with significant experience in intergovernmental relations, legislation, policy and natural resources management and effective problem solving, interpersonal and communications skills seeks similar leadership role in the non-Federal sector.
Major Accomplishments
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Led the development of legislative proposals in collaboration with the Texas Water Development Board to improve U.S. Army Corps of Engineers support to state and local government. Proposals included in Senate Environment and Public Works Committee reported Water Resources Development Act of 2004
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Led substantive negotiations with the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in the enactment of H.R. 2447, the Water Resources Development Act of 2003
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Led US Army Corps of Engineers negotiations and support of Congressional enactment of the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 that included the $8 billion Florida Everglades Restoration
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Led Corps negotiations and support for enactment of the Water Resources Development Act of 1999
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Led development of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers legislative proposals and defense to the Army Secretariat and the Office of Management and Budget for water resources bills in 2000, 2002 and 2003
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Led the publication of program guidance to inaugurate the Corps Dredged Material Management Program to achieve environmentally sustainable navigation dredging
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Led the promulgation of the first policy guidance for the Corps ecosystem regulation mission
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Led the U.S. Army Engineer District Pittsburgh to new mission in Appalachian stream restoration to ameliorate aquatic ecosystem degradation caused by acid mine drainage
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Led the development and secured Congressional support for enactment of Section 581 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 to authorize non-structural, environmentally sustainable flood damage reduction to disadvantage communities in West Virginia and Pennsylvania
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Led agency support for and prepared the first strategic plan of the Inland Waterways User Board submitted in its annual report to Congress in 1995
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Led the Ohio River Division Navigation Planning Program to achieve Congressional authorization of over $ 4 billion in inland navigation system |
