The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Buffalo and New York Districts, in partnership with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), are developing a rapid wetland functional assessment method, the “New York Wetland Rapid Assessment Procedure” (NYWRAP), to support USACE Regulatory Program decision-making under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899. The USACE Regulatory Program requires defensible wetland assessments to: (1) characterize a wetland’s function or condition, (2) understand the impact of a proposed action to wetland function or condition, and/or (3) inform the development of wetland compensatory mitigation to ensure that appropriate levels of wetland function or condition are achieved. The NYWRAP is being developed to provide a transparent, repeatable, and defensible functional assessment approach applicable across all non-tidal freshwater wetlands in New York State. NYWRAP will provide Regulatory Program decision-makers with the resources needed to objectively evaluate alternatives, avoid and minimize impacts, quantify and assess unavoidable impacts, determine compensatory mitigation requirements, and potentially as a component to monitor the success of compensatory mitigation projects. This video provides an overview of the NYWRAP.
| Date Taken: | 08.17.2026 |
| Date Posted: | 08.17.2026 12:32 |
| Category: | Video Productions |
| Video ID: | 1019034 |
| VIRIN: | 260817-D-A5040-1037 |
| Filename: | DOD_111908112 |
| Length: | 00:44:16 |
| Location: | NEW YORK, US |
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