23 Jul 2025

St. Croix Yacht Club Dredge (St. Croix River)

Expiration date: 8/8/2025

The applicant is proposing to dredge approximately 2,200 cubic yards of sediment from 1.97 acres within the St. Croix River at Hi- Line Beach. The dredging contractor will use standard mechanical methods to remove sediments (sand) from the riverbed in the North Beach (Site 1), South Beach (Site 2), and Inlet Channel (Site 3). An excavator will be operated off a barge to complete the planned work. The barge will be moved around to each project footprint and spudded where needed. Dredging will remove sediments that have settled in habitats less than 5 ft deep (1.5 m) based on a water surface elevation of 674.6 ft (205.6 m). All dredge spoils will be scooped onto a barge where they will be allowed to dewater, prior to being spread in nearby uplands.

14 Jul 2025

WisDOT County Highway AB and Roby Road

Expiration date: 7/29/2025

The applicant requests authorization to reconstruct approximately 3.6 miles of USH 51 from Roby Road to County Trunk Highway (CTH) AB on the existing alignment. From Roby Road at the southern terminus of the project area to County Road B, the existing 2-lane undivided roadway would be reconstructed to a 4-lane urban divided roadway with a raised median and 10-foot-wide sidewalk on both sides of USH 51. Rutland–Dunn Townline Road and County Road B intersections would be reconstructed into dual-lane roundabouts. From County Road B to the northern terminus of the project, CTH AB, the existing undivided rural roadway would be reconstructed to a 2-lane rural divided roadway with a continuous raised median. The project would involve the expansion of the existing right of way (ROW).

14 Jul 2025

Spruce Vally 35 Wetland Bank

Expiration date: 8/14/2025

The sponsor is proposing to develop the Spruce Vally 35 Wetland Bank by disabling onsite drainage infrastructure and restoring wetland hydrology and native vegetation. The proposed bank site is approximately 103 acres in size, including upland buffer areas.

8 Jul 2025

Bjorklund Compensatory Mitigation Bank

Expiration date: 8/9/2025

The sponsor is proposing to restore approximately 188.4 acres of natural habitat consisting of wet meadow wetland, mesic prairie and forested buffer within the Rum River watershed. The sponsor and the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources have entered into a partnership agreement to complete the proposed wetland restoration project. Currently, much of the site is planted to row crop agriculture with several private ditches providing drainage. The sponsor proposes to achieve the project objectives by disabling the existing private surface drainage systems within the site, stabilizing hydrologic conditions, and re-establishing native plant communities through seeding and planting within the permanently protected conservation easement area.

2 Jul 2025

Grygelko Mitigation Bank Proposal

Expiration date: 8/1/2025

This proposal was previously advertised on public notice on December 20, 2023, and the sponsor has made several revisions to the original proposal. The revisions include Hydrocad modeling data, as well as an updated wetland delineation report, credit table, performance standards, and design plans. The sponsor proposes to construct a wetland mitigation bank with credits for bank service area 7, which includes the Twin Cities metro area. The objective of the project is to re-establish fresh wet meadow wetlands with mesic prairie upland buffers by discontinuing agricultural use, breaking and blocking existing drain tile, and planting and establishing native, noninvasive vegetation. The successful achievement of the objectives would result in the rehabilitation of 13.8 acres of fresh wet meadow, the enhancement of 0.50 acre of fresh wet meadow, the establishment of 0.50 acre of fresh wet meadow, and the restoration of 14.8 acres of upland buffer.

2 Jul 2025

Potomac Marsh Wetland Bank

Expiration date: 8/1/2025

The sponsor is proposing to develop the Potomac Marsh Wetland Mitigation Bank. The proposed bank site is approximately 55 acres in size, including upland buffer areas. The sponsor intends to restore 2.1 acres of shallow marsh, 16.9 acres of fresh wet meadow, 3.9 acres of hardwood swamp, and 22.5 acres of upland buffer within the property. In addition, the sponsor is proposing to preserve 7.2 acres of upland prairie and upland forest. The sponsor is proposing to restore these wetland communities by filling ditches to restore wetland hydrology and establishing native vegetation by installing native seed mixes in the wetland and upland communities.

18 Jun 2025

Nationwide Permits Reissuance Request for Comments

Expiration date: 8/4/2025

On June 18, 2025 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) published in the Federal Register its proposal to reissue 56 existing nationwide permits (NWPs) and issue one new NWP. One NWP is not proposed for reissuance. This current public notice discusses and solicits public comment on the St. Paul District’s proposal to issue 44 nationwide permits and associated regional conditions and revoke 13 nationwide permits within Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and within the exterior boundaries of Federally recognized American Indian reservations in both states. Comments relating to regional conditions are due by August 4, 2025 and should be sent to Lorin.R.Kinney@usace.army.mil.

12 Jun 2025

ANNOUNCEMENT OF RELEASE OF THE WISCONSIN GUIDELINES VERSION 2

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul District Regulatory Division (Corps) and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (Wisconsin DNR) are announcing the official release of the Wisconsin Guidelines, Version 2 (Wisconsin Guidelines). The agencies have developed the Wisconsin Guidelines as two documents, one tailored for sponsors titled Procedures for Developing Wetland Compensatory Mitigation Sites in Wisconsin and the second for applicants/permittees titled Procedures for Project Proponents on Compensatory Mitigation Requirements in Wisconsin.

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.