On December 27, 2018, the DNR granted a Dam Safety and Public Waters Work permit for a revised Fargo-Moorhead Flood Risk Management Project, known as Plan B. The DNR’s decision to issue the permit was made following completion of a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) process.
Minnesota DNR Environmental Review
Permit
- 2018 Findings of Fact PDF
- Plan B Permit PDF
Final Supplemental EIS Materials – completed 2018
- Fargo-Moorhead Flood Risk Management Project Environmental Review Record of Decision PDF
- Executive Summary PDF
- Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement PDF
- Figures 1-19 PDF
- Appendix A: Summary of Public Comments and Response to Comments PDF
- Appendix A – Attachment: Public Comment Letters/Emails PDF
- Appendix B: Alternative Screening Exercise Report PDF
- Appendix C: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hydrology and Hydraulics Report PDF
- Appendix D: Houston-Moore Group FM Diversion Plan B Transportation Master Plan PDF
- Appendix E: FEMA/USACE Coordination Plan PDF
- Appendix F: Flood Diversion Authority Property Rights Acquisition and Mitigation Plan v. 4 PDF
- Appendix G: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Adaptive Management and Mitigation Plan PDF
- Appendix H: Plan B Dam Breach Assessment PDF
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Final Minnesota DNR EIS Materials - completed 2016
- Executive Summary PDF
- Final EIS PDF
- Final EIS Figures PDF
- Appendix A - Draft Operation Plan PDF
- Appendix B - Adaptive Management Monitoring Plan PDF
- Appendix C - DSA Screening Analysis PDF
- Appendix D - Final Distributed Storage Alternative Report PDF
- Appendix E - Adequacy of Modeling Combined PDF
- Appendix F - Fargo-Moorhead Final FEMA USACE Coordination Plan PDF
- Appendix G - FMM Draft Cemetery Mitigation Plan PDF
- Appendix H - 2011 Fargo-Moorhead Final Programmatic Agreement PDF
- Appendix I - MNEIS Diversion Socioeconomics Report PDF
- Appendix J - Agricultural Impacts Mitigation Plan PDF
- Appendix K - Organic Farm Inventory Memo PDF
- Appendix L - Response to Public Comments on the Draft EIS PDF
- Appendix M - Purpose and Need and Alternative Rescreen Report PDF
- Appendix N - Fargo-Moorhead EIS Hydrologic Methodology Review PDF
- Appendix O - Takings, Flowage Easements and Acquisition Processes PDF