EO 14156 in Missouri

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The purpose of this notice is to advise the public that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Northwestern Division has approved the use of special emergency processing procedures by the Kansas City District, as the lead district in Missouri, in accordance with 33 CFR § 325.2(e)(4) for activities covered by the National Energy Emergency declared in Executive Order (EO) 14156. That EO was issued on January 20, 2025, under the President's legal authorities, including the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. §§ 1601 et seq.) and 3 USC§ 301. For the reasons stated in Section 1 of EO 14156, the President has found that insufficient energy production, transportation, refining, and generation constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to our Nation's economy, national security, and foreign policy and declared a national emergency on the basis of those findings. The President has directed agencies to use, to the fullest extent possible and consistent with applicable law, emergency USACE permitting provisions to facilitate the Nation's energy supply.

These special emergency processing procedures have been approved for activities associated with the identification, siting, production, transportation, refining, and generation of domestic energy sources, including energy infrastructure, that require Department of the Army authorization under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, and/or Section 103 of the Marine Research, Protection, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972, as amended, where there would be an unacceptable hazard to life, a significant loss of property, or an immediate, unforeseen, and significant economic hardship if the action requiring a permit is not undertaken within a time period less than the normal time needed to process the application under standard procedures.

As established by the Kansas City District, the Little Rock District will follow these special emergency processing procedures outlined in EO 14156 in in Missouri for our Area of Responsibility (AOR), which was coordinated and implemented with the other four Corps districts in Missouri.

Information about these special emergency processing procedures is attached and located at: https://www.swl.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory/.