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This plan outlined improvements to be implemented in wetland protection and mitigation by the Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, and the Federal Highway Administration. [11]
As part of the overall project, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Metro Flood Diversion Authority are implementing a number of mitigation projects. Among these are funding and/or constructing levees in nearby communities, completing wetland restoration projects, and acquiring flowage easements for properties that will be impacted when the FM ...
The developer must submit a Public Notice to their respective district of the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) requesting to carry out a project and associated ecological impacts on a wetland. Mitigation banking was developed in the United States in the 1980s as a new method for compensatory mitigation with a market-oriented, off-site ...
The Finderne Wetlands mitigation project [4] (also known as Finderne Farms) is a wetlands project upstream of Bound Brook in Bridgewater, New Jersey that is tied into the Green Brook Flood Control project. When completed, Finderne Farms will serve as a Somerset County park with trails through wetlands and ballfields.
Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 531 U.S. 159 (2001), was a decision by the US Supreme Court that interpreted a provision of the Clean Water Act. Section 404 [ 1 ] of the Act requires permits for the discharge of dredged or fill materials into "navigable waters," which is defined by the Act as ...
Capital Engineers: The US Army Corps of Engineers in the Development of Washington, DC 1790-2004 (Office of History, Headquarters, US Army Corps of Engineers, 2011). online; Shallat, Todd. "Building waterways, 1802–1861: Science and the United States Army in early public works." Technology and Culture 31.1 (1990): 18-50. excerpt; Shallat, Todd.
The process comes under the section 404 of the US Clean Water Act 1972, the US Army Corps of Engineers regulations [20] and the commitment to "no net loss" of wetlands habitat. As part of mitigation banking, compensation for impacts to river banks, known as "stream riparian zones", may be required. Dedicated stream mitigation banks may be ...
The plan to mitigate for lost wetlands, loss of pedestrian access, and highway noise was approved by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas Department of Transportation, and Federal Highway Administration. [4] Approximately 380 acres of man-made wetlands were developed adjacent to the site to fulfill this mitigation plan.