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MANATEE KEY Floridal April 2013 The key is not designed to be used by the Corps' Regulatory Division for making their effect determinations for dredging projects greater than 50,000 cubic yards, the Corps' Planning Division in making their effect determinations for civil works projects or by the Corps' Regulatory Division for making their effect determinations for projects of the same relative scope as civil works projects. These types of activities must be evaluated by the Corps independently of the key. A. Project is not located in waters accessible to manatees and does not directly or indirectly affect manatees (see Glossary)......................................................................................................................................No effect Project is located in waters accessible to manatees or directly or indirectly affects manatees ...................... B B. Project consists of one or more of the following activities, all of which are May affect: 1. blasting or other detonation activity for channel deepening and/or widening, geotechnical surveys or exploration, bridge removal, movies, military shows, special events, etc.; 2. installation of structures which could restrict or act as a barrier to manatees; 3. new or changes to existing warm or fresh water discharges from industrial sites, power plants, or natural springs or artesian wells (but only if the new or proposed change in discharge requires a Corps permit to accomplish the work); 4. installation of new culverts and/or maintenance or modification of existing culverts (where the culverts are 8 inches to 8 feet in diameter, ungrated and in waters accessible, or potentially accessible, to manatees)Z; 5. mechanical dredging from a floating platform, barge or structure that restricts manatee access to less than half the width of the waterway; 6. creation of new slips or change in use of existing slips, even those located in a county with a State - approved Manatee Protection Plan (MPP) in place and the number of slips is less than the MPP threshold, to accommodate docking for repeat use vessels, (e.g., water taxis, tour boats, gambling boats, etc; or slips or structures that are not civil works projects, but are frequently used to moor large vessels (>100') for shipping and/or freight purposes; does not include slips used for docking at boat sales or repair facilities or loading/unloading at dry stack storage facilities and boat ramps); [Note: For projects within Bay, Dixie, Escambia, Franklin, Gilchrist, Gulf, Hernando, Jefferson, Lafayette, Monroe (south of Craig Key), Nassau, Okaloosa, Okeechobee, Santa Rosa, Suwannee, Taylor, Wakulla or Walton County, the reviewer should proceed to Couplet C.] any type of in -water activity in a Warm Water Aggregation Area (WWAA) or No Entry Area (see Glossary and accompanying Maps4);[Note: For residential docking facilities in a Warm Water Aggregation Area that is not a Federal manatee sanctuary or No Entry Area, the reviewer should proceed to couplet C.]. 8. creation or expansion of canals, basins or other artificial shoreline and/or the connection of such features to navigable waters of the U.S.; ote: For projects proposing a single residential dock, the reviewer should proceed to couplet C; otherwise, project is a May Affect.] 173