U.S. Army
U.S. Army's Categorical Exclusions (opens in new tab)Categorical Exclusion
(c) Cultural and natural resources:
Exclusion Text
(3) Scientific studies, surveys, data collection, monitoring, and information gathering activities that are minimally intrusive to the environment. Examples include, but are not limited to topographic surveys; bird counts; wetland mapping; use of remote sensing technologies; geophysical investigations using sonar; inventories, evaluation, and mitigation for historic properties in accordance with NHPA; other cultural and natural resource surveys, inventories, monitoring, and investigations; and geotechnical testing to support preconstruction investigations and facility design when the geotechnical testing technology used is minimally intrusive to the environment (REC required).
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