18 Jun 2025

Public Notice: NWP Reissuance Request for Comments - ND

Expiration date: 8/2/2025

On June 18, 2025, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) published in the Federal Register its proposal to reissue 56 existing nationwide permits (NWPs) and issue one new NWP. One NWP is not proposed for reissuance. NWPs are general permits issued on a nationwide basis to streamline the authorization of activities that result in no more than minimal individual and cumulative adverse environmental effects. Many of the proposed NWPs require notification to the district engineer before commencing those activities, to ensure that the activities authorized by those NWPs cause no more than minimal individual and cumulative adverse environmental effects. The Federal Register notice is the public’s opportunity to comment on the proposed NWPs, general conditions, and definitions. Comments on national issues relating to these NWPs should be submitted to docket number COE-2025-0002 at www.regulations.gov, or by email to 2026nationwidepermits@usace.army.mil or by mail to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Attn: CECW-CO-R, 441 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20314-1000. Instructions for submitting comments are provided in the June 18, 2025, Federal Register notice. Comments on the proposed NWPs are due by July 18, 2025.

18 Apr 2025

NWO-2025-00065-BIS

Expiration date: 5/5/2025

The District Engineer, Omaha District, is evaluating an application from the City of Minot for a stormwater improvement project to alleviate flooding in the west US-83 ditch between 27th Avenue NW and 30th Avenue NW. Minot Storm Sewer District 124 is also referred to as the Polaris Park Drainage Basin. The City proposes to grade a portion of the US-85 ditch to slope to a new storm sewer inlet that would cross under US-85 to an existing storm sewer pipe that crosses under Minot International Airport property. The pipe would be extended to the Stonebridge Pond, which would be converted from a retention pond/mitigation site to a retention pond. The outlet would be upgraded to meter flows from the Pond to Livingston Coulee. The project would permanently impact 2.5 acres of wetlands and other waters. The project/review area is located in Section 1, Township 155 North, Range 83 West; centered on Latitude 48.269368° North and Longitude -101.274991° West; in Minot, Ward County, North Dakota.

7 Apr 2025

Special Public Notice for Special Emergency Processing Procedures under E.O. 14156 in Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming for Section 10 Rivers and Harbors Act and Section 404 Clean Water Action Permits

The purpose of this notice is to advise the public that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Northwestern Division has approved the use of special emergency processing procedures by the Omaha District in accordance with 33 CFR § 325.2(e)(4) for activities covered by the National Energy Emergency declared in Executive Order (EO) 14156. That EO was issued on January 20, 2025, under the President’s legal authorities, including the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. §§ 1601 et seq.) and 3 USC § 301. For the reasons stated in Section 1 of EO 14156, the President has found that insufficient energy production, transportation, refining, and generation constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to our Nation’s economy, national security, and foreign policy and declared a national emergency on the basis of those findings. The President has directed agencies to use, to the fullest extent possible and consistent with applicable law, emergency USACE permitting provisions to facilitate the Nation’s energy supply.