CORPS RESTORES RHODE ISLAND SALT MARSH

The Corps New England District restored a Rhode Island salt marsh.

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CORPS RELAXES WETLANDS ENFORCEMENT

The Corps is rapidly retreating from enforcing the main law that protects streams, swamps, and marshes from filling and development, according to a review of Corps records.

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To read the Corps response, visit

http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepa/releases/peer.htm

CORPS CLEANS UP FLORIDA SUPERFUND SITE

Four Corps districts combined skills to clean up a Superfund site near Jacksonville.

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http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepa/pubs/dec99/story7.htm

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QUESTIONS REGARDING WETLAND PERMIT, WATER CERTIFICATION, AND CZMA

If you are familiar with these issues, please review the following question from an environmental colleague in Oregon. Visit

CORPS HABITAT RESTORATION CONFERENCE

American Rivers and the Corps of Engineers hosted a one-day conference on Corps of Engineers habitat restoration in Nebraska City, NE. Following Corps presentations on completed projects, members of American Rivers Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee and conference participants offered the following comments:

• The Corps should integrate ecological goals into all project planning, including navigation and flood control projects
• The Corps should draw a distinction between restoration and mitigation
• Monitoring should be built in restoration and mitigation projects
• The Corps should develop projects within the context of watersheds and ecological systems
• The Corps should broaden its base of cost-sharing partners and seek the input of more local stakeholders
• The Corps should incorporate existence values into their assessment of project benefits and costs

To view the letter from American Rivers Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, click here

FY 2000 APPROPRIATIONS BILL PASSED

House and Senate negotiators reconciled competing versions of the Energy and Water Appropriations Bill for FY 2000, which provides annual funding for the Corps. To view the conference report, visit

on the World Wide Web and type in H. Rpt. 106-336

IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO SIGN ON TO THE RIVER BUDGET FOR FY 2001

American Rivers is still accepting sign-ons for the River Budget: National Priorities for Local River Conservation in FY 2001. As of November 1, more than 400 river conservation organizations, community groups, and others had added their names to the list of groups supporting the budget (see

To see the final River Budget for FY 01 visit

To sign on in support, contact Suzy McDowell at smcdowell@amrivers.org

Note the River Budget for FY 01 went to the printers in late October. All groups that sign on to the River Budget after November 15 will be listed on an addendum sheet to be inserted in the printed documents and added to the online list of sign on groups.

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