A regional general permit (RGP) is a type of general permit that authorizes categories of activities in a specific geographic area that causes only minimal individual and cumulative environmental impacts. The following RGPs are applicable within the Galveston District.
GP Number |
Location |
Authorized Work |
Expiration Date |
SWG-1998-02413 |
All navigable waters of the United States located with the Galveston District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, excluding Louisiana |
Directional Drilling of pipelines under navigable waters |
1/1/2019 |
SWG-2002-02904 |
All navigable waters of the United States located with the Galveston District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, excluding Louisiana* |
Construction of single-family, multi-family and commercial piers and appurtenances |
12/31/2020 |
SWG-1997-02817 |
In existing, manmade upland canals located within the Galveston District
|
Construction of boat slips in man-made canals |
12/31/2019 |
SWG-1997-02818 |
Waters of the United Slates within a portion of the High Island Oil Field, bounded on the south and west by the existing perimeter levee, on the north by a marsh adjacent to the perimeter levee, and on the east by State Highway 124 and the 5-foot elevation contour, at the base of High Island, Galveston County, Texas
|
Construction of access roads and levees and the perfomance of dredging for drillingsites |
1/1/2019 |
SWG-2002-02392 |
All navigable waters of the United States located with the Galveston District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
Placement of aerial lines and cables over navigable waters |
1/1/2019 |
SWG-1999-01926 |
All navigable waters of the United States located with the Galveston District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, excluding Louisiana |
Maintenance dredging of previously authorized artificial shallow draft upland canals |
12/31/2016 |
SWG-2001-00150 |
All navigable waters of the United States located with the Galveston District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, excluding Louisiana |
Construction of artiifical wave barriers for the purpose of shoreline erosion protections |
12/31/2016 |
SWG-2002-02405 |
Inner Harbor of the Corpus Christi Chip Channel from COE Station 1106+32 of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel to COE Station 1661+50 of the Violo Turning Basin as well as the Rincon Channel from the Corpus Christi Ship Channel to and including Channels A & B |
Maintenance dredging within the Inner Harbor of the Corpus Chriti Ship Channel |
1/1/2019 |
SWG-2013-00422 |
Lake Livingston in Polk, San Jacinto, Walker and Trinity Counties, Texas
|
Mechanical dredging of no more than 500 cubic yards
|
9/20/18 |
* For pier projects located on state-owned submerged lands in Texas, please see our programatic permit section.