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Proposal To Reissue and Modify Nationwide Permits
The Engineers Corps published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on June 18, 2025. Comments closed on July 18, 2025.
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What the agency says
Nationwide Permits (NWPs) are issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to authorize categories of activities under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 that have no more than minimal individual and cumulative adverse environmental effects. The Corps is proposing to reissue its existing NWPs and associated general conditions and definitions, with some modifications. The Corps is proposing to issue one new NWP. The proposed new NWP would authorize activities to improve the passage of fish and other aquatic organisms through aquatic ecosystems. In addition, the Corps is proposing to modify some other NWPs to simplify and clarify those NWPs. The proposed modifications to the NWPs general conditions, and definitions are intended to reduce burdens on the regulated public and continue to comply with the statutory requirement that NWPs authorize only activities with no more than minimal individual and cumulative adverse environmental effects. The Corps is proposing to modify two of the 2021 NWPs (i.e., NWP 48 for commercial shellfish mariculture activities and NWP 56 for finfish mariculture activities) to address litigation on those NWPs. The Corps is requesting comment on all aspects of these proposed NWPs.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-11190
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Notice of proposed rulemaking
- Agency
- Defense Department; Engineers Corps
- Published
- June 18, 2025
- Comments due
- July 18, 2025
- Dates
- Submit comments on or before July 18, 2025.
- Docket
- Docket Number: COE-2025-0002
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 0710-AB56
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 68
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