Lecture 7 Week 4

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CWA and other regulations

Back 1

CWA, Phil of wetlands.

Safe Drinking Water Act. Ocean dumping act.

oil pollution Act

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Transitional wetland

Back 2

Wetland between a terrestrial system that's higher up and a deep water aquatic system

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Depressional wetland

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A sunken area of wetland that is exposed to groundwater for part or all of the Year between two higher up Plains of terrestrial system

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US Army corpse definition

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Those areas that are any dated or saturated by surface or groundwater, hydrology, at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation, hydrophytes, typically adapted for life and saturated soil conditions, hydric soils, Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas.

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Wetland function abiotic

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Flood mitigation.

Storm abatement.

Aquifer recharge.

Water quality, nutrient retention, sediment trapping.

Bank stabilization

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Wetland function biotic

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Wildlife habitat.

Aquatic habitats.

Downstream / in Basin food chain support.

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Wetland functions human

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Active Recreation.

Passive Recreation.

Resource Harvest

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Wetland alterations water level

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Draining.

Channeling.

Construction of dams.

Filling.

Water extraction.

Highway Construction.

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Wetland alterations nutrient level

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Sewage.

Agricultural runoff.

Sediments.

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Wetland alterations other human disturbances

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Discharge of toxic substances.

Acid mine drainage.

Mineral extraction, phosphates, gravel, sand.

Peat extraction.

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Wetland alterations natural disturbances

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Subsidence.

Drought.

Hurricanes.

Erosion.

Biotic effects, eat outs

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Clean Water Act

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Purpose, restore and maintain chemical, physical and biological Integrity To Us Waters.

Safe for fishing and swimming.

Eliminate all uncontrolled pollutant discharge.

Definition of pollutant includes dredge soil materials.

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Agencies responsibilities Army Corps of Engineers

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Administers the day-to-day program, including individual permit decisions and jurisdictional determinations.

Enforces section 404 provisions.

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Agencies responsibilities Environmental Protection Agency

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Develop then interprets environmental criteria used in evaluating permit applications.

Determine scope of geographic jurisdiction. Identifies activities that are exempt. Review / comments on individual permit applications.

Has authority to veto the core permit decisions, section 404 C.

Enforces section 404 provisions

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Section 404 of Clean Water Act, permit required to place fills dredge material into Waters of United States. Regulated activities

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Discharge of dredge or fill materials.

All Landscaping using mechanical equipment.

Draining that alters destroys Wetlands. Judging of wetlands which includes redeposit of materials.

Pilling, change of character of wetland.

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Section 404 of Clean Water Act Exempted activities

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Normal farming, silviculture, ranching. Emergency repairs.

Construction of farm ponds, irrigation ditches, Farms Forest Roads.

Maintenance of draining ditches.

Prior converted cropland, conversion before 1985.

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Section 404 permits

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General permits, granted for activities that have only minimal individual or cumulative impacts.

Eliminates individual review.

Little delay or paperwork.

No permit needed, pre-authorized activities.

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Section 404 permits, individual permits

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For activities which may have more than minimal impacts. Permit decision based on, probable effects of proposed action, compliance with 404 b 1 guidelines, consideration of views of usfws State resource agencies.

Applicant provides to acoe, alternative analyst, data for factual determination, water quality, contaminants, T&E species, water supply, aquatic ecosystem, cultural resources.

Mitigation, avoidance, minimization, compensation.

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404 b 1 guidelines

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Alternatives.

Significant degradation of water quality. Violation of other laws.

Minimize potential impacts

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Court decisions affecting definition of waters of us. Solid Waste agency of Northern Cook County vs USA Coe, 2001

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Isolated Waters.

Migratory bird will not valid.

Need to show hydrological connection.

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Court decisions affecting definition of waters of us. Rapidos versus United States, 2006

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Navigational Waters.

Split Decision.

Unclear direction

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Jurisdictional Waters, Rapanos

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Traditional navigable Waters.

Adjacent Wetlands.

Tributaries to navigable Waters.

Adjacent wetlands.

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Clean water rule, 2015

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Traditional navigable Waters.

Tributaries to traditional Waters.

Adjacent Wetlands within maximum of 1500 ft of ordinary hwm.

Isolated Waters with a significant Nexus to a hundred year flood plain, and Waters with his significant Nexus within 4000 fee of jurisdictional waters.

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Executive order of D Trump

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Navigable Waters free from pollution and promoting economic growth.

Review clean water rule.

Rescind clean water Rule.

Acoe and EPA interpret navigable Waters / Antonin Scalia in rapinos versus us

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Oregon Phil / removal law, Department of State lands

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Regulated activities, removal and Phil activities over 50 cubic yards. Salmon ated habitat no minimum.

ExTempted activities, normal farming, forestry and ranching practices, converted Wetlands, maintenance

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Mitigation strategies

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Avoidance.

Minimisation.

Compensation.

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Forms of compensation mitigation

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Restoration.

Enhancement.

Creation.

Banking.

Payment in lieu of.