Interagency Agreement Regarding Shared Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Authority

In 2016, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers agreed that NMFS and the USFWS (the Services) have shared authority under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (FWCA). To guide the collaborative implementation of our shared FWCA authority, the Services' headquarters offices, in coordination with the Regions, developed the attached Agreement, which outlines the principles and procedures that the Services will use in managing our relationship under this important, and shared, authority for mitigating the resource impacts of Federal water development projects.