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Memorandums of Agreement and Understanding

2024

• Memorandum of Understanding Between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Association of State Floodplain Managers
  This memorandum of understanding between USACE and the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) establishes a shared set of partnership principles to guide them in recognizing the public value of the Nation's floodplains and water resources and their contribution to public safety and the national economic, national security, and environmental quality. To this end, USACE and ASFPM will strive to support robust investments in critical water resources infrastructure and related activities; foster cooperation, ongoing communication, data development, and sharing among all stakeholders of all levels and agencies of government; collaborate on education and training of floodplain management professionals through the Certified Floodplain Manager program and other educational opportunities; and support continued research, development, adoption, and educational outreach associated with nonstructural flood risk management standards, project, and initiatives.

  2023

• Memorandum of Agreement Between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Natural Resources Conservation Service
  This agreement between USACE and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) establishes a framework for the respective responsibilities of each agency for the provision of USACE and NRCS goods and services, including planning, design, construction, engineering or technical assistance, flood risk reduction, erosion control, emergency response and disaster assistance, environmental/ecosystem restoration, hazardous or toxic materials removal and/or mitigation, invasive species control, permit assistance, cultural resources coordination, research and development, laboratory testing, training and professional development, and such other related goods or services that may be agreed upon in the future.

  2022

• Memorandum of Understanding Between the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Regarding Water and Related Natural Resources
  This memorandum of understanding between the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) and USACE facilitates and promotes their long-term working relationship, and encourages their collaborative efforts toward improving the management of water and related natural resources under their respective missions and authorities.

  2021

• Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Interagency Coordination and Collaboration for the Protection of Tribal Treaty Rights and Reserved Rights
  This interagency memorandum of understanding affirms the commitment of the signatory parties to protecting tribal treaty rights, reserved rights, and similar tribal rights to natural and cultural resources. The signatories intend to demonstrate that commitment through early consideration of treaty and reserved rights in agency decision-making and regulatory processes. They also intend to enhance interagency coordination and collaboration to protect such treaty and reserved rights and to fully implement federal government treaty obligations. Tribes, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians that do not have formal treaties may also have rights that should be considered in federal decision-making and regulatory processes addressed under the framework of this MOU.

  2020

• Memorandum of Agreement Between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for Conducting Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Activities
  This agreement between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) ensures NMFS involvement to develop water resources development projects that maximize the protection of fish and wildlife. This agreement ensures that NMFS is invited, and occasionally funded, to participate early and throughout the planning process.

  2019

• Delegation of Authority for establishing transfer of funds agreements with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries pursuant to the National Wildlife Coordination Act (FWCA)
  This memo delegates the authority to transfer funds to the US Fish and Wildlife Service and to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries to carry out investigations required to fulfil the goals of the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act to the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, from the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works).
• Memorandum of Agreement Between the Federal Emergency Management Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Provisions of Goods and Services Related to the Identification of Floodplains
  This agreement between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) establishes a mutual framework for the responsibilities of the parties for the provision of USACE goods and services related to the identification of floodplains and other flood-risk areas.

  2018

• Agreement Regarding Shared Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Authority
  Description on the approach that the National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service use for implementing their shared authority under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act. The memo further guides these Services toward collaborative goals, including Improves conservation for water resource projects, strengthened Services partnership, Increased efficiency, and clarity regarding the transfer of funds between the Services and water resource construction agencies.

  2016

• Memorandum of Understanding between the USACE, USGS, NOAA, and FEMA on Collaborative Science, Services and Tools to Support Integrated and Adaptive Water Resources Management
  This Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency serves as an overarching agreement that establishes the ways in which these agencies will coordinate with one another to improve water resource science and service.

  2006

• Memorandum of Agreement Between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation
  This two-way agreement between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation establishes a framework for the respective responsibilities for the provision of goods and services between the two parties, including include planning, design, construction, flood damage reduction, environmental restoration, recreation, research and development, emergency management, hazardous or toxic materials removal, engineering or technical assistance, water supply management, dam safety, hydropower, technical engineering, construction, fish and wildlife, ecosystem restoration, recreation, emergency management, and training and professional development.
• Memorandum of Understanding Between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Audubon Society
  This Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Audubon Society establishes a foundation for collaboration to protect, restore, and manage natural resources of mutual interest to the two parties.

  2003

• Agreement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for Conducting Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Activities
  This agreement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) ensures that the FWS is involved in USACE projects to solve water resources development problems that involve fish and wildlife. This Agreement contains provisions for the transfer of funds from USACE to the FWS for activities pursuant to the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (FWCA).
• Memorandum of Agreement Between the Federal Aviation Administration, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to Address Aircraft-Wildlife Strikes
  This agreement between USACE, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) establishes procedures necessary to coordinate their missions to more effectively address existing and future environmental conditions contributing to aircraft-wildlife strikes throughout the United States. These efforts are intended to minimize wildlife risks to aviation and human safety, while protecting the Nation's valuable environmental resources
• Memorandum of Agreement Between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  This two-way agreement between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service establishes a framework for the respective responsibilities for the provision of goods and services between the two parties.
• Partnership Agreement Between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for Water Resources and Fish and Wildlife
  This agreement between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expresses their joint commitment to improve the development of the US's water resource and to conserve, protect, and restore its fish and wildlife resources.

  2002

• MOU Between the Corps and Ducks Unlimited
  This Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Ducks Unlimited establishes a foundation of collaboration on protecting, restoring, and managing selected wetlands and associated uplands of mutual interest to the two parties.

  2000

• Memorandum of Agreement between the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of the Army regarding the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and Corps of Engineers Flood Damage Reduction Projects
  This Memorandum of Agreement between the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of the Army underscores the policy of both agencies to facilitate the use of non-structural approaches to reducing flood damages where practicable, and that the construction of levees on Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) lands is incompatible with open space uses and, therefore, will not be recommended for implementation. The restriction on levee construction generally does not apply to structures designed specifically for ecosystem preservation, restoration, or enhancement. Structures for these purposes are deemed consistent with the open space uses requirement of the HMGP.
• Memorandum of Understanding Between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Nature Conservancy
  This Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Nature Conservancy establishes an agreement that their ability to achieve their respective and shared natural resource goals will be enhanced through a coordinated approach, which is outlined within the MOU.

  1999

• Memorandum of Agreement between the Minerals Management Service, U.S. Dept. of Interior, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army
  This agreement between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Minerals Management Service establishes procedures to ensure timely coordination as each carries out their respective responsibilities concerning the use of Outer Continental Shelf sand, gravel, and shell resources.