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My name is brian Nagel . I work for the 

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Army Corps of Engineers ST paul 

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district as a regulatory colleges . I 

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work as the regulatory college ist . I 

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am our subject matter expert on 

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jurisdiction and I also work on wetland 

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restoration projects . What we refer to 

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as mitigation bank projects . The 

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regulatory mission for the Corps of 

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Engineers is to protect the nation's 

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aquatic resources while allowing for 

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economic development through fair and 

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balanced decisions and mitigation 

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banking plays a role in that 

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essentially we approve wetland 

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restoration projects and the credits 

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from those projects can be used to 

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replace impacts somewhere else . As the 

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jurisdiction subject matter expert , 

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I'm trying to help ensure that we are 

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only regulating the waters were 

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supposed to regulate the waters that 

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we've been um given jurisdiction 

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over via the Clean Water Act or the 

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rivers and harbors act . I started with 

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the Corps of Engineers as a pathway 

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student When I was getting my master's 

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degree at the University of Wisconsin 

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Green Bay , I started in a field office 

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there . Um from there after I got my 

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degree , I move to the district office 

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in Saint paul Minnesota . I've had many 

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opportunities to deploy . I've been um 

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to Puerto rico after hurricane Maria 

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and I've also been to Afghanistan where 

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I served as the environmental manager 

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per Kandahar Airfield