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.

21 Mar 2025

408-NWO-2024-0066

Expiration date: 4/4/2025

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District is soliciting comments regarding the proposed SDDOT Project P 1806(23)186, PCN 06QP Highway 1806 Road Improvements Project at Oahe Dam & Reservoir. USACE Omaha District has determined that the project would entail an alteration to the federal project, and therefore requires permission under Section 408. SDDOT proposes approximately 8 miles of road reconstruction on USACE Fee Title lands associated with the Oahe Dam & Reservoir Project, in Stanley County, South Dakota.

13 Mar 2025

NWO-2014-01331-PIE

Expiration date: 3/27/2025

The Omaha District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has received an application from Ronning Enterprises, Inc. for a Department of the Army permit pursuant to Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. §1344) and/or Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 (33 U.S.C. §403). The purpose of this public notice is to solicit comments from the public. The project would affect waters of the United States associated with the Big Sioux River. The project/review area is located on the SW side of the intersection of East 26th Street and South Six Mile Road in Section 30, Township 101 North, Range 48 West; at Latitude 43.525464 and Longitude -96.633251; in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota. The site is characterized by the nearly complete Copper Creek Estates and Copper Creek Heights developments. The project area has residential development on the west, northwest, and southwest, and a rural residential development on the east.