Activities Affecting Coastal Wetlands:

Activities Affecting Coastal Wetlands: A. Activities located outside of Coastal Wetlands must avoid and minimize effects to the following characteristics of Coastal Wetlands to the maximum extent practicable: 1. The natural supply of sediment and nutrients to the Coastal Wetlands. 2. The natural temperature regimes that are part of the ecosystem of Coastal Wetlands. 3. Salinity regimes. 4. Sediment transport processes. 5. Water flow and natural circulation. 6. The long-term biological productivity of the Coastal Wetlands’ ecosystem B. Activities in the Coastal Zone requiring a Section 404 permit from the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers for discharges into navigable waters of the United States, their tributaries, and adjacent wetlands are highly likely to affect Coastal Wetlands by altering the characteristics of the ecosystem. These activities may constitute regulated activities under M.C.A. § 49-27-5(c) (ii) and (iii). Where such activities are conducted outside of Coastal Wetlands, proper application to the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers constitutes sufficient notification to the Department . MISS. CODE ANN. §§49-15-304, 49-27-59, 57-15-6, 57-15-10.