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“The views, opinions and findings contained in this report are those of the authors(s) and should not be construed as an official Department of the Army position, policy or decision, unless so designated by other official documentation.”
Jack Dinne Baltimore District Regulatory Branch 5 June 2018
MARYLAND: REGULATORY PROCESS/COMPENSATORY MITIGATION OVERVIEW
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• Area: 12,407 mi2 (42nd in area)
• Population: 6.052 million (19th in population/5th in density)
• 5 physiographic regions (3 Corps Wetland Delineation Manual Supplements)
• ~21% water (12,407 mi2)
• ~3.7% vegetated wetlands (600,000 acres)
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MARYLAND BACKGROUND INFORMATION
MARYLAND 3
• More than 100,000 miles of streams and creeks including: ~20,300 miles of perennial streams ~6,140 miles of intermittent streams
• 22 Federal 8-digit HUCS
• ~5,270 miles of state roadway
• ~480 miles of interstate roadway
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MARYLAND BACKGROUND INFORMATION
• Authorities: Section 404 of the Clean Water Act / Section 10 of
the Rivers and Harbors Act
• Location/staff: Baltimore office and Eastern Shore field office with 20 staff for Maryland
• District Area of Review: Maryland, Susquehanna River Drainage in PA (lead District), DC, Northern VA military installations
• Jurisdiction
• Approach: Cradle to grave including pre-application / permitting / mitigation / compliance
5 REGULATORY PROGRAMS IN MARYLAND: BALTIMORE DISTRICT
• Permitting
Standard Permits General Permits
► Maryland State Programmatic General Permit (MDSPGP-5)
► Chesapeake Bay TMDL RGP (Bay RGP) ► Nationwide Permits (NWP)
• 2008 Mitigation Rule/No Net Loss
6 REGULATORY PROGRAMS IN MARYLAND: BALTIMORE DISTRICT
• Authorities: Maryland’s waterway construction statute, Maryland’s Nontidal Wetland Protection Act, and Maryland’s Tidal Wetlands Act
• Location/staff: Baltimore Main office + 2 field offices (Eastern Shore and
Western Maryland) ~39 staff, 3 grant-funded stream/wetland restoration
reviewers, + contractual SHA reviewers
• Jurisdiction
• Approach: Territories with staff for each program/aspect
• Permitting Application fee
7 MARYLAND REGULATORY PROGRAMS: MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT (MDE)
• MDE Compensatory Mitigation Programs ILF (NT) with mandated rates by county Programmatic mitigation for NT impacts under 5,000 SF Tidal
• Regulatory Process in Maryland
Pre-application process (MDE) Joint Permit Application (JPA) (MDE/Corps)
8 MARYLAND REGULATORY PROGRAM/PROCESS: MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT (MDE)
• WRDA Section 214 positions for State Highway Administration
(SHA) review Corps 2 FTEs EPA 1.5 FTEs FWS 2 FTEs MDE contractual review (currently 2 firms w/ ~11 positions) MD DNR 1 position
• Interagency Meetings Interagency Review Team (IRT) Joint Evaluation (JE) meeting TMDL Stream Restoration Quarterly meeting SHA
Interagency Review Meeting (IRM) TERP/NEPA 404 Merge process agency meetings
9 REGULATORY PROCESS IN MARYLAND: INTERAGENCY
• Review timeframes
• ~1,500 permit actions/year (90% general permits / 10% individual permits)
• ~6.5 acres of nontidal wetland impacts/year Close to 50% of the NT impacts are under 5,000 SF and
qualify for MDE’s programmatic mitigation program
• ~1.4 acres of tidal wetland impacts/year
• ~54,400 linear feet of waterways impacts/year
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REGULATORY PROCESS IN MARYLAND: PERMITTING
• PRM including advanced mitigation (SHA)
• State ILF program
• Banking One private commercial wetland mitigation bank One County single user wetland mitigation bank SHA UMBI (MDOT) with one wetland bank and one stream
mitigation bank
Full delivery (SHA TMDL)
11 REGULATORY PROCESS IN MARYLAND: MITIGATION & FULL DELIVERY
THANK YOU
Jack Dinne Baltimore District, Regulatory Branch Maryland Section Northern 2 Hopkins Plaza Baltimore, Maryland 21201 410 962-6005 [email protected]
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