Clean Water Act Section 404
Mitigation Guidance Directory

1. Mitigation (Avoid, Minimize, Compensate)
1. 1990 Memorandum of Agreement Between The Department of the Army and The Environmental Protection Agency (link to html)
2. Compensatory Mitigation
1. 2002 Corps Regulatory Guidance Letter (RGL) 02-2: Guidance on Compensatory Mitigation Projects for Aquatic Resource Impacts (link to PDF)
2. 2003 Model Mitigation Plan Checklist (link to PDF)
3. 2003 Memorandum to the Field on Adaptation of NAS Guidelines (link to PDF)
4. 2005 Watershed Approach Guidance (under development)
1. 2004 Draft Site/Kind (link to html)
2. 2004 Draft Preservation (link to html)
3. 2004 Draft Buffer (link to html)
5. 2005 Performance Standards Guidance (under development)
6. Specialized Guidance
1. Third Party Mitigation
1. 1995 Federal Guidance for the Establishment, Use and Operation of Mitigation Banks (link to html)
2. 2000 Federal Guidance on the Use of In-Lieu-Fee Arrangements for Compensatory Mitigation under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act (link to PDF)
2. Stream Mitigation
1. 2004 Stream Mitigation Protocol Compendium (link to PDF)
3. Impact-Specific Guidance
1. 2003 Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) Guidance (Fed-Aid Highways) (link to PDF)
2. 2003 Federal Aviation Administration Memorandum of Agreement to Address Aircraft-Wildlife Strikes (link to PDF)
3. Recent Evaluations of Compensatory Mitigation (link to it)

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