15 May 2025

Lanners Wetland Bank Development

Expiration date: 6/14/2025

The proposed mitigation bank project is in BSA 7, which has approximately 23 counties located wholly or partially within its boundaries. The sponsor states that there are currently 36 approved mitigation banks within BSA 7. Twenty-six have federal and state credits available and ten (four are agricultural banks) have State-only credits available. Sixteen of the 26 banks with federal and state credits have less than two credits available. Population centers such as St. Cloud, Hutchinson, Monticello, Rogers, Albertville-St. Michael, and a portion of the Twin Cities metro area are included in BSA 7. These areas are rapidly developing, and future wetland impacts are anticipated which could require compensatory mitigation indicating a future need for bank credits.

11 Apr 2025

Wisconsin Line 5 401a2 Public Hearing

Expiration date: 6/13/2025

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the United States Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District (Corps), will conduct a virtual public hearing on May 13-14, 2025. The Corps is conducting this public hearing in response to an objection received from the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (BRB), under Section 401 (a)(2) of the Clean Water Act (CWA), for the application from Enbridge Energy to discharge dredged and/or fill material in waters of the U.S., including wetlands, for the Line 5 Wisconsin Segment Relocation Project (Project) and in response to a request from BRB that we conduct a public hearing.

10 Apr 2025

Special Public Notice- Emergency Processing Procedures in Minnesota and Wisconsin

The purpose of this notice is to advise the public that the United States (U.S.) Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Vally Division has approved the use of special emergency processing procedures by the St. Paul District in accordance with 33 CFR § 325.2(e)(4) for the National Energy Emergency established by Executive Order (EO) 14156, which was issued on January 20, 2025 under the President’s legal authorities, including the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq) and section 301 of title 3, United States code.

6 Jan 2025

Special Public Notice (MNWI SQT release)

Expiration date: 1/6/2030

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul District Regulatory Division (Corps) is announcing the release of version 1.0 of the Minnesota and Wisconsin (MNWI) Stream Quantification Tool (SQT) and Debit Calculator. The MNWI SQT replaces, updates, and merges the Minnesota SQT (MNSQT) version 2.0 and the beta version of Wisconsin SQT (WISQT) to create a single tool for quantifying functional change on streams throughout the two states.