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Section 404 of the Clean Water Act

Supplemental Information Letter from RA to EPA HQ regarding Virgina Seafood Council Proposal under CWA Section 404 (Signed March 10, 2003)

Memorandum referring to a decision by the Norfolk District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to issue a permit authorizing the Virginia Seafood Council's proposal to introduce up to a million non-native, triploid Surninoe oysters into the waters of the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean. 

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