Department of Homeland Security
Department of Homeland Security's Categorical Exclusions (opens in new tab)Categorical Exclusion
Federal Assistance Activities
Exclusion Text
*N6 Federal Assistance for Relocation/Realignment of Structures and Facilities. Federal assistance for the relocation of structures and facilities, including the realignment of linear facilities that are part of a bigger system, when they do not involve ground disturbance of more than one acre. This category does not apply to the following: actions that involve hardening or armoring of stream banks, unless they use stream or stream bank bioengineering techniques; realignment actions affecting a regulatory floodway if they result in any increase in flood levels during the base flood discharge; or actions occurring seaward of the limit of moderate wave action (or V zone when the limit of moderate wave action has not been identified).
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