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wetland impact, the EPA regional administrator may request agency coordination of PCNs <br /> between 1/3 and one acre. The request may only include acreage limitations within the 1/3 <br /> to one acre range for which the state has denied water quality certification. In cases where <br /> the EPA has requested coordination of projects as described here, the Corps will forward the <br /> PCN to EPA only. The PCN will then be forwarded to the Fish and Wildlife Service and <br /> the National Marine Fisheries Service by EPA under agreements among those agencies. <br /> Any agency receiving the PCN will be bound by the EPA timeframes for providing <br /> comments to the Corps. <br /> (f) Wetland Delineations. Wetland delineations must be prepared in accordance <br /> with the current method required by the Corps. For NWP 29 see paragraph (b)(6)(iii) for <br /> parcels less than 0.5 acres in size. The permittee may ask the Corps to delineate the special <br /> aquatic site. There may be some delay if the Corps does the delineation. Furthermore, the <br /> 30-day period (45 days for NWP 26) will not start until the wetland delineation has been <br /> completed and submitted to the Corps, where appropriate. <br /> (g) Mitigation: Factors that the District Engineer will consider when determining <br /> the acceptability of appropriate and practicable mitigation include, but are not limited to: <br /> (i) To be practicable, the mitigation must be available and capable of being <br /> done considering costs, existing technology, and logistics in light of the overall project <br /> purposes; <br /> (ii) To the extent appropriate, permittees should consider mitigation banking <br /> and other forms of mitigation including contributions to wetland trust funds, "in lieu fees" to <br /> organizations such as The Nature Conservancy, state or county natural resource management <br /> agencies, where such fees contribute to the restoration, creation, replacement, enhancement, <br /> or preservation of wetlands. Furthermore, examples of mitigation that may be appropriate <br /> and practicable include, but are not limited to: Reducing the size of the project; establishing <br /> wetland or upland buffer zones to protect aquatic resource values; and replacing the loss of <br /> aquatic resource values by creating, restoring, and enhancing similar functions and values. <br /> In addition, mitigation must address wetland impacts, such as functions and values, and <br /> cannot be simply used to offset the acreage of wetland losses that would occur in order to <br /> meet the acreage limits of some of the NWPs (e.g. for NWP 26, five acres of wetlands <br /> cannot be created to change a six-acre loss of wetlands to a one-acre loss; however, two <br /> created acres can be used to reduce the impacts of a three-acre loss). <br /> 14. Compliance Certification: Every permittee who has received a Nationwide <br /> permit verification from the Corps will submit a signed certification regarding the completed <br /> work and any required mitigation. The certification will be forwarded by the Corps with the <br /> authorization letter and will include: <br /> a. A statement that the authorized work was done in accordance with the Corps <br /> authorization, including any general or specific conditions; <br /> b. A statement that any required mitigation was completed in accordance with the <br /> permit conditions; <br /> c. The signature of the permittee certifying the completion of the work and <br /> mitigation. <br /> 5 <br />