Agency or authority
What this permitting pathway provides
A more efficient way to acquire Section 10 Rivers and Harbors Act and Section 404 Clean Water Act permits than to apply for a Standard Permit.
This NWP was issued for the first time on March 15, 2026. See all Nationwide Permits, the 2026 NWP Final Action Summary Chart, 2026 NWP Final Action Fact Sheet, Biological Assessment for the 2026 NWPs and more on the Army Corps Headquarters Nationwide Permits web page.
Applicable locations
Nationwide
Permit documents
- 2026 Nationwide Permits, Conditions, Further Information, and Definitions
- Decision Document - Nationwide Permit 60
- 2026 Regional Conditions for California
Expires on
March 14, 2031
How to apply
Notification: For activities resulting in the loss of greater than 1/10-acre of waters of the United States, the permittee must submit a pre-construction notification to the district engineer prior to commencing the activity. (See general condition 32 starting on page 58 of Nationwide Permits, Conditions, District Engineers Decision, Further Information, and Definitions).
May be used with:
- CDFW Habitat Restoration and Enhancement Act (HREA)
- CDFW Restoration Consistency Determination (CD)
- CDFW Restoration Management Permit (RMP)
- CEQA Categorical Exemption 15333 – Small Habitat Restoration Projects
- CEQA Programmatic EIR for the State Water Resources Control Board Statewide Restoration General Order (SRGO PEIR)
- CEQA Statutory Exemption for Restoration Projects (SERP) – CDFW
- North Coast NMFS Programmatic Biological Opinion (PBO)
- Central Coast NMFS Programmatic Biological Opinion (PBO)
- Central Valley NMFS Programmatic Biological Opinion (PBO)
- North and Central Coast Federal Consistency Determination (CD) – Coastal Commission and NOAA Restoration Center
- USFWS Statewide Restoration Programmatic Biological Opinion (PBO)
- Water Board Order for Small Habitat Restoration Projects
- Water Board Statewide Restoration General Order (SRGO)
- South Coast NMFS Programmatic Biological Opinion (PBO)
Activities covered
Discharges of dredged or fill material into waters of the United States and structures and work in navigable waters of the United States for activities that restore or enhance the ability of fish and other aquatic organisms to move through aquatic ecosystems.
Examples of activities that may be authorized by this NWP include, but are not limited to:
- the construction, maintenance, modification, or expansion of conventional/technical and nature-like fishways;
- the construction, maintenance, modification, or expansion of fish bypass channels around existing in-stream structures;
- the replacement of existing structures (e.g. culverts, low-water crossings) with structures planned, designed, and constructed to restore or enhance passage of fish and other aquatic organisms;
- the installation of fish screens and other devices to minimize entrainment and entrapment of fish and other aquatic organisms in irrigation ditches and other features;
- devices to guide fish and other aquatic organisms through passage features;
- fish lifts and fish by-pass pipes;
- the modification of existing in-stream structures, such as dams or weirs, to improve the ability of fish and other aquatic organisms to move past those structures.
Exclusions
The activity must not cause the loss of greater than one acre of waters of the United States.
This NWP does not authorize dam removal activities.
This NWP also does not authorize the construction or installation of new culverts at crossings of waterbodies where there are not existing culverts.