APPENDIX D 



EXAMPLES OF CERTIFICATION CONDITIONS 



•♦MARYLAND** 



Maryland certified with conditions the fill/alteration of 6.66 acres of non-tidal 

 wetlands as part of the construction of an 18 hole golf course and a residential 

 subdivisioiL Appraximately three-fourths of the entire site of 200 acres had been 

 cleared for cattle grazing and agricultural activities in the past As a result, a stream on 

 the east side of the proper^ with no buffer had been severely degraded. An 

 unbuffered tractor crossing had also degraded the stream. A palustrine forested 

 wetland area on the southeast side xji the property received stormwater nmoff from a 

 highway bordering the property and served as a flood storage and ground water 

 recharge area. Filling this area for construction of a fairway would eliminate some 4.5 

 acres of wetlands. Additionally, other smaller wetland areas on the property, principally 

 around an old farm pond that was to be fashioned into four sepaizte ponds for water 

 traps, were proposed to be altered or lost as a result of the development 



The Corps did not exercise its discretionary authority to require an individual 

 permit and thus the project was permitted under a nationwide permit (26). The State 

 decided to grant certification, conditioned on a number of things that it believed would 

 improve the water quality of the stream in the long run. 



The filled wetland areas had to be replaced on an acre-for-acre basis on the 

 property and in particular, the 4 J acre forested palustrine wetland had to be replaced 

 onsite with a wetland area serving the same functions regarding stormwater nmoff from 

 the highway. 



Some of the other conditions placed on the certification were as follows: 



1. The applicant must obtain and certify compliance with a grading and 

 sediment control plan approved by the [name of county] Sofl Conservation 

 District; 



2. Stormwater runoff firom impervious surfaces shall be controlled to prevent 

 the washing of debris into the waterway. Stormwater drainage facilities 

 shaU be designed, implemented, operated and maintained in accordance 

 with the requirements of the [applicable county authority]; 



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