29 Dec 2020

New England District Regulatory Division Compensatory Mitigation Standard Operating Procedure

This notice concerns the standard operating procedure (SOP) for compensatory mitigation of impacts to aquatic resources associated with Department of the Army permits in New England. Both the U.S Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have a national goal: no overall net loss of wetland functions. This goal is achieved through mitigation of aquatic resource impacts. Mitigation includes a sequence of avoidance, minimization, and finally compensation. These revisions do not alter that sequencing in any way; however, the terms “mitigation” and “compensation” are here used interchangeably to refer to compensatory mitigation.

15 Dec 2020

NAE-2012-02315

Expiration date: 1/14/2021

The District Engineer has received a permit application to conduct work in waters of the United States from Gary Esper. This work is proposed in two adjacent locations in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Cod National Seashore near the Nauset Light in Eastham, MA. The central site coordinates for the first location are Latitude 41.881788 and Longitude -69.947030. The central site coordinates for the second location are Latitude 41.859093 and Longitude -69.939380.