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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