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  • Draft Finding of No Significant Impact and Environmental Assessment — Wilson West Pier Repair

    Expiration date: 7/18/2026

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Buffalo District has assessed the environmental impacts of the subject project in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 and has determined a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI). Please review the project information and send your comments or recommendations in writing within 30 days to the following e-mail address: WilsonWestPierRepair@usace.army.mil

    View draft EA & FONSI

  • Finding of No Significant Impact and Environmental Assessment for the Construction of a Phosphorus Optimized Wetland, St. Marys, Auglaize County, Ohio

    Expiration date: 5/16/2026

    This document contains the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed construction of two phosphorus-optimized wetlands in St. Marys, Auglaize County, Ohio, under the authority of Section 594 of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) 1999. The project is part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) to reduce phosphorus loads into the Maumee River watershed and Lake Erie.

  • 2026 Nationwide Permits Regional Conditions for New York

    Expiration date: 3/15/2031

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District announces final regional conditions for the 2026 Nationwide Permits in New York State, effective March 15, 2026. The regional conditions, approved by the North Atlantic Division and Great Lakes and Ohio River Division, provide environmental protection for high-value waters and ensure compliance with state water quality certifications and Coastal Zone Management Act consistency requirements. These conditions apply to activities authorized under the reissued Nationwide Permits published in the Federal Register on January 8, 2026.

    PDF: 2026 NWP Final Regional Conditions - New York State
    Federal Register Notice - January 8, 2026

  • 2026 Nationwide Permits Regional Conditions for Ohio

    Expiration date: 3/15/2031

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo, Huntington, Louisville, and Pittsburgh Districts announce final regional conditions and water quality certifications for the 2026 Nationwide Permits in Ohio, effective March 15, 2026. These regional conditions provide additional environmental protection and ensure compliance with state requirements for activities authorized under the reissued Nationwide Permits published in the Federal Register on January 8, 2026. The regional conditions will remain in effect until March 15, 2031.

  • Draft Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact - Fairport Harbor Nearshore Placement Area, Lake County, Ohio

    Expiration date: 3/20/2026

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, has prepared a Draft Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact (EA/FONSI) for establishing a new nearshore placement area for dredged sediment from Fairport Harbor federal navigation channels. The preferred 62.78-acre site is located approximately 2.3 miles west of Fairport Harbor's west breakwater and was selected to avoid impacts to a newly constructed pier at the existing nearshore area. Public comments are being accepted until March 20, 2026.

  • Black Rock Lock Bulkhead Approved Review Plan

    Expiration date: 2/3/2028

    With no replacement of the original miter guard gates from the lock’s construction completion in 1913, the Black Rock Lock miter guard gate leaves are over 100 years old and operates in a freshwater environment. Recent inspection reports (US Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, 2017 and 2019) indicate that the gates are due for replacement. These reports have highlighted dramatic section loss of steel in multiple locations, as well as possible fatigue issues.

  • Joint Public Notice Notification of Standard Service Areas for Ohio

    The purpose of this public notice is to inform the public of the revised standard service areas for Ohio which were developed by the USACE, in consultation with the IRT. This public notice is solely informational.

    Public Notice

  • Notice of Availability of the Beta Streamflow Duration Assessment Methods for the Northeast and Southeast

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) Baltimore, Buffalo, Charleston, Chicago, Detroit, Fort Worth, Galveston, Huntington, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Little Rock, Louisville, Memphis, Mobile, Nashville, New England, New Orleans, New York, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Savannah, St. Louis, Tulsa, Vicksburg, and Wilmington Districts, and the

    View Notice of Availability

  • Dredged Material Management Plans for Ohio harbors - Ashtabula, Conneaut, Fairport, Sandusky, Huron, Lorain, Toledo Programmatic Review Plan Decision Document

    Programmatic Review Plan provides a quality management framework for the effective and efficient review of dredged material management plans that are actively being studied and reports generated for federal harbors on Lake Erie in Ohio.

  • Euclid Creek Spillway GLFER, Cleveland, Ohio Review Plan

    This Review Plan defines the scope and level of peer review for the Euclid Creek Spillway, Cleveland, OH project, Great Lakes Fisheries and Ecosystem Restoration (GLFER) Program, which was authorized by Section 506, Water Resources Development Act of 2000, as amended by Section 5011 of the Water Resources Development Act of 2007.

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Consolidation of Studies

The Water Resources Development Act establishes a single-phase cost-shared study process that for each feasibility study undertaken, the district engineer will develop a detailed study schedule and notify the non-federal interests.

Overviews of study schedule milestones are posted below.