Comment Letters Archive

As part of our work to protect waters and wetlands, GRN routinely submits comments about proposals related to water pollution and wetland destruction to state and federal decision-makers. You can see some of our past comment letters below (all uploaded as PDFs): 

• Healthy Gulf/Bayou City Waterkeeper comments on Texas "Coastal Spine" Draft Environmental Impacts Statement (February 8, 2019)
• GRN comments - Ellis Estates, After the Fact Permit - MVN-2008-03207-CZ - Livingston Parish, LA (December 19, 2018)
• GRN Comments - Supplemental Comments on Formosa/"Sunshine"/"Greenfiled Chemical" Polymer Plant MVN 2018-00159-CM, St. James Parish, LA (September 26, 2018)
• GRN Comments - Southern Lifestyle Development, Templeton Ridge - MVN-2017-01217 (September 26, 2018)
• GRN Comments - IGP Methanol Plant - MVN 2018-00670-EV - Plaquemines Parish, LA (September 10, 2018)
• Impala Terminals Burnside Draft Water Discharge Permit (AI 39945, Permit LA0125938) (Aug 15, 2018)
• BCWK and GRN WOTUS Comments to Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Docket ID # EPA-HQ-OW-2017-0203)  (Aug 13, 2018)
• LETTER TO LOUISIANA DELEGATION FROM SUPPORTERS OF THE BAYOU SAUVAGE PROJECT (Aug 13, 2018)
• GRN comment MVN-2015-1356 The Preserve at Goodbee Lakes St Tammany (Aug 13, 2018)
• GRN Comments The Preserve at Goodbee Lakes, St. Tammany Parish, LA (August 13, 2018)
• BCWK and GRN comments Olin Blue Cube Operations LLC salt dome Oyster Creek SWG-2018-00213 (Aug 13, 2018)
• GRN letter to South Tangipahoa Port Commission regarding development of Port Manchac ( jul 31 2018)
• International Marine Terminals, Myrtle Grove Coal Exports Draft Water Discharge Permit (AI 20098, Permit LA0052361) (July 31, 2018)
• Proposed Rule Development for Ch. 62-331--State Assumption of Federal Section 404 (Jul 31, 2018)
• GRN Public Comments: Draft 2018 Integrated Repor ton Water Quality in Louisiana (Impaired Waters List) (AI 169294) (Jul 26, 2018)
• SWG-2018-00136 - ExxonMobil Corporation Beaumont Refinery Expansion in Neches County (Jul 23, 2018)
• Formosa Plastics as FG LA P20174048  (Jun 26 2018)
• GRN Comment MVN 2017-00569-EV - Lafitte Crown Point Levee ( May 22 2018)
• GRN comments MVN 2013-2745-EBB - Mandeville Bypass in St. Tammany Parish, LA (May 6, 2018)
• ABK GRN et al comments on East Grand Lake  MVN-2016-01163-CM    2   3   4  (Apr 19, 2018)
• draft_grn_comment_mvn-2018-00215-ev_timber_branch_ii_.pdfdraft_grn_comment_mvn-2018-00215-ev_timber_branch_ii_.pdf (April 16, 2018)
• Development of a Water Quality Credit Trading Program for Louisiana (1712Pot1) (Feb 28, 2018)
• On Listing Mississippi Phosphates Corp. on the Superfund National Priorities List. October 2, 2017.
• Benefits of EPA and Clean Water Act regulations for the Gulf of Mexico Region. Response to 2017 Executive Order 13777 on EPA regulatory reform. May 15, 2017
• Bayou Bridge Fracked Oil Pipeline (CUP# P20160166), Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Acadia, Vermilion, Lafayette, Iberia, Saint Martin, Iberville, Ascension, Assumption, and Saint James Parishes, Feb 18, 2017.
• Bayou Bridge Fracked Oil Pipeline (MVN 2015 02265), Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Acadia, Vermilion, Lafayette, Iberia, Saint Martin, Iberville, Ascension, Assumption, and Saint James Parishes, Feb 13, 2017.
• Shell's Proposed Offshore Pipeline for Oil Export (MVN-2016-01214-ES), Offshore Gulf of Mexico, November 14, 2016.
• Bayou Bridge Fracked Oil Pipeline and the EIS and Public Hearings it Demands (MVN-2015-02295-WII, WQC# 160921-03), Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Acadia, Vermilion, Lafayette, Iberia, Saint Martin, Iberville, Ascension, Assumption, and Saint James Parishes, November 2, 2016.
• On Connected Industrial Actions, Again Reiterating the Needs for Programmatic Environmental Impact Statements and Public Hearings (MVN-2016-00444-WPP, WQC# 160831-01; MVN-2016-00876-MG, WQC# 160826-02), Calcasieu Parish, September 26, 2016.
• Opposition to NOLA Oil Terminal and the Need for Local Public Hearing (MVN-2013-00550-EMM, WQC# 160803-03), Plaquemines Parish, September 16, 2016.
• Port Cameron and its Consequent Cumulative Impacts, the Need for Programmatic Environmental Impact Statements, the Need for Public Hearings (MVN-2013-02424-MB, WQC# 160621-01, CUP# P201410877), Cameron Parish, July 28, 2016.
• Transco's Pipeline, Compressor Stations, etc. to serve Sabine Pass LNG Terminal (CUP# P20141709), Calcasieu and Cameron Parishes, June 2, 2016.
• Bayou Bridge Fracked Oil Pipeline (CUP# P20160166), Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Acadia, Vermilion, Lafayette, Iberia, Saint Martin, Iberville, Ascension, Assumption, and Saint James Parishes, May 27, 2016.
• Proposed Cameron LNG Expansions and the Need for Programmatic Studies of LNG Export (MVN-2002-03266-WII), Calcasieu and Cameron Parishes, May 27, 2016.
• Comments on Louisiana's 2016 Proposed Section 303(d) Impaired Waters List and Integrated Water Quality Report. State-wide, LA, May 2, 2016.
• Enterprise's Propylene Pipeline for Underground Storage in Sorrento (MVN-2015-01668-WII), Ascension, Iberville, St Martin Parishes, February 12, 2016.
• St. Bernard Parish Riverbend Sewage Treatment Plant/Wetlands Assimilation (Permit # LA0040185; AI # 19244), St Bernard Parish, February 11, 2016.
• Entergy's Proposed St Charles Power Station and its Indirect Impacts (MVN-2008-0031-EOO), Montz, LA, January 29, 2016.
• Opposition to Ascension Pipeline through Maurepas Wildlife Management Area (MVN-2015-01960-CM), Maurepas WMA, Ascension, St James, St John Parishes, December 24, 2015.
• Objection to Southeast Market Pipelines Project/Sabal Trail Fracked Gas Pipeline (SAM-2014-00238, SAM-2014-00655, SAS-2013-00942, SAJ-2013-03030, SAJ-2013-03099), Alabama, Georgia, Florida, December 11, 2015.
• Clean Gulf Commerce Coalition Response to RAM Terminals LLC (CUP# P20120190), Plaquemines Parish, November 17, 2015.
• Louisiana Intent to Amend the Water Quality Regulations regarding Dissolved Oxygen Criteria For Water Quality Subsegments in the Eastern Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Plains Ecoregion (LAC 33:IC.1123.Table 3 - WQ091), September 4, 2015.
• Opposition to Maurepas Pipeline/"Louisiana Refining System" (MVN-2014-2121-CM, CUP# P20141416), Blind River and Maurepas Swamp, St John, St James, St Charles Parishes, August 24, 2015.
• Harveston Wastewater Wetland Assimilation, LDEQ LPDES water discharge permit (Permit LA0126845, AI# 187293), East Baton Rouge Parish, August 19, 2015.
• Creekstone Development (MVN-2015-1332-CU), Livingston Parish, August 16, 2015.
• Harveston Wastewater Wetland Assimilation (MVN-2013-02664), East Baton Rouge Parish, August 3, 2015.
• Ward/Gulfport Joint Wetland (404) Permit Application Comment Letter (SAM-2015-00573), North Gulfport, Harrison County, MS, August 3, 2015.
• International Paper Dump - Possible 404 Issues (AI# 137445), Angie, LA, May 6, 2015.
• Draft Fiscal Year 2016 Annual Plan for Louisiana Coastal Master Plan, April 19, 2015.
• Genesis Pipeline USA, LP (MVN-2014-02700-WII, WQC# 150211-02, CUP# P20141493), Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes, March 27, 2015.
• Hancock County Heron Bay Early Natural Resource Damage Assessment project (SAM-2013-00088-MJF), Hancock County, MS, March 2, 2015.
• RAM Coal Terminal (CUP# P20120190), Plaquemines Parish, February 23, 2015.
• Objection to Dam and Artificial Lake in Washington Parish (SYK-MVK-2012-1240, AI# 194614), Washington Parish, December 9, 2014.
• Louisiana Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit for NOLA Oil Terminal, LLC (AI# 186945, Permit# LA0126944, Activity# PER2014001), Plaquemines Parish, December 6, 2014.
• Draft Water Discharge Permit for Raven Energy, LLC of Louisiana/Convent Marine Terminal (AI# 30490, Permit# LA0104345, Activity# PER20130003), October 8, 2014.
• Louisiana Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Draft Permit for Luke’s Seafood, LLC (AI# 101615, Permit# LA0126908, Activity# PER20130001), Bayou Grand Caillou, August 14, 2014.  
• Water Discharge Permit, H2O Systems, Inc. / Weyerhaeuser Real Estates & Development (AI# 153566, Permit# LA 0123382, Activity# PER20130001), Bayou Castine, near Mandeville, LA, July 8, 2014.
• Jackson County Utility Authoirty Discharge Permit for West Jackson County Wasterwater Treatment Facility (NPDES MS0045446), Ocean Springs, MS, July 2, 2014.
• Draft TMDL for Total Nitrogen and Total Phosphorous for the Pearl River, Ross Barnett Reservoir to the Strong River, June 20, 2014.
• Wetland Fill Permit Application for Love's Travel Center (SAM-2013-00569-SMZ), Gulfport, MS, May 21, 2014.  
• MsCIP Comprehensive Barrier Island Restoration for Hancock, Harrison and Jackson Counties Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, Coastal Mississippi, April 21, 2014.

For questions about comment letters related to projects in Mississippi, please contact Andrew@healthygulf.org. For questions about comment letters related to wetland destruction, please contact Scott@healthygulf.org. For any other questions, please contact Matt@healthygulf.org.