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Army Corps and federal partners roll out programmatic consultations, online tools to shorten dredge reviews
Summary
Federal agencies at the Barnstable summit described new programmatic consultations for shorebirds and essential fish habitat, plans to adopt nationwide permits and online tracking tools, and said those steps could shave months off individual dredge reviews.
Federal permitting agencies described multiple programmatic and technology efforts intended to speed dredge reviews while maintaining environmental protections.
"We realized the need to programmatically consult one time," said Tammy Turley, regulatory division chief for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ New England District, describing a programmatic shorebird consultation the Corps has been pursuing with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Turley said the Corps expects to finish that programmatic consultation this summer and to apply consistent terms and conditions to many routine dredging projects rather than consulting on each application individually.
Turley and other Corps staff outlined an array of measures: a shorebird programmatic consultation…
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