Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Table 5. Recommended stipulations by federal and state resource agencies for 16 individual permits for discharges of fill material into wetlands under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and their acceptance by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as special conditions of the permit; prairie pothole region of North Dakota, 1987 - 1991. Parenthetical entries are percentages.
| Recommended stipulations | Accepted | Not accepted | Not accepted but addresseda | Total |
| Construction protocols | 6 (60) | 2 (20) | 2 (20) | 10 |
| Hydrologic management and control | 6 (60) | 3 (30) | 1 (10) | 10 |
| Dredged and fill material management | 8 (89) | 0 | 1 (11) | 9 |
| Vegetation management and erosion control | 8 (89) | 1 (11) | 0 | 9 |
| Fish and wildlife management | 7 (88) | 1 (12) | 0 | 8 |
| Agency consultationb | 0 | 0 | 2 (100) | 2 |
| Wetland restoration or creation | 2 (100) | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 37 (74) | 7 (14) | 6 (12) | 50 |
| aIncludes recommendations that the corps did not accept but that the applicant addressed during the permitting process. bFor example, obtaining information on replanting mixtures from the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. | ||||
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
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