These sample comments are provided to help you identify applicable issues and arguments. Many of the sample comments are quite extensive, but comments that focus on just a few key issues can be equally effective. Network members are encouraged to submit additional comments to sametm@nwf.org for inclusion on this site. To see higher level group comment letters instead, click here.
Scoping Comments
- Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) for the Yazoo Area Pump Project (November 2020)
- Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement II (SEIS II), Mississippi River and Tributaries Project, Mississippi River Mainline Levee (October 2020)
- Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Clean Water Act Permit for the Pebble Mine Project (July 2019)
- Draft Integrated Feasibility and Environmental Impact Statement for the Pearl River Flood Control Project (September 2018)
- Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Apalachicola Chattahoochee Flint River Basin (January 2017)
- Draft Environmental Impact Statement St. Johns Bayou New Madrid Floodway Project (November 2013)
- Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Drakes Bay Oyster Company Special Use Permit (December 2011)
- Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Lock Replacement Project (January 2009)
- Draft General Reevaluation Report and Environmental Impact Statement for Lock and Dam 3 (October 2006)
- Draft Yazoo Backwater Area Reformulation Report and Supplement No. 1 to the 1982 Yazoo Area Pump Project Final Environmental Impact Statement (December 2000)
Environmental Impact Statement Comments
- Notice of Intent to Prepare Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Yazoo Area Pump Project (June 2020)
- Mississippi River and Tributaries Project, Mississippi River Mainline Levees and Channel Improvement (October 2018)
- Update of the Water Control Manual for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia and a Water Supply Storage Assessment (February 2017)
- Mississippi River Ship Channel Gulf to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, General Reevaluation Study (June 2015)
- Mississippi River, Baton Rouge to the Gulf of Mexico Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, Louisiana New Industrial Canal Lock and Connecting Channels Project (March 2015)
- Middle Mississippi River Regulating Works Project (February 2014)
- Updating the Water Control Manual for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin (January 2013)
- Drakes Bay Oyster Company Special Use Permit EIS (Marine Wilderness) (November 2010)
- Mississippi RiverGulf Outlet (MRGO) Ecosystem Restoration Feasibility Study (November 2008)
Environmental Assessment Comments
Regulatory and Other Comments
- Comments to the Corps of Engineers on Implementation Guidance for the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 (March 2023)
- Comments to the Corps of Engineers on Environmental Justice, Tribal Policies, and the Principles, Regulations, & Guidelines (PR&G) (August 2022)
- Comments to the Council on Environmental Quality on Recommendations for the Upcoming Phase 2 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Rulemaking (March 2022)
- Comments to the Council on Environmental Quality on Proposed Revisions to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Implementing Regulations (November 2021)
- Comments to the Corps of Engineers on Implementation Guidance for the Water Resources Development Act of 2020 (May 2021)
- Comments to the Council on Environmental Quality on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Update to the Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (March 2020)
- Comments to the Corps of Engineers on Implementation Guidance for the Water Resources Development Act of 2018 (February 2019)
- Comments to EPA to Retain Existing Clean Water Act Section 404(c) Implementing Regulations (February 2019)
- Comments to the Council on Environmental Quality on Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Update to the Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (July 2018)