Corps of Engineers Announces Enforcement and Compliance Section

On Sept. 30, 2010, the Corps of Engineers' Norfolk District Regulatory Branch published a public notice announcing the creation of an Enforcement and Compliance Section within the regulatory branch. The new section will be staffed by seven project managers – six in the Corps' Norfolk office, and one in the Charlottesville field office.

In the past, Corps enforcement has been handled by the same project managers who wrote the permits. In practice, this meant that the Corps would write letters regarding violations of the Clean Water Act, but would typically leave the actual enforcement mechanism (drafting consent orders and levying penalties) to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, which has always had a separate enforcement section.