EP 1130-2-520
29 Nov 96
regularly using the waterway. This will be done through issuing bulletins or notices by district
commanders.
2-4. Cooperation with Coast Guard.
a. District commanders will consult with the USCG District Commander during design of
channel and harbor improvement projects to discuss the aids to navigation requirements and all
other facets of the projects that involve USCG responsibility. Project material furnished direct to
USCG commanders will include: (1) Information as to the authorization by Congress of a project
involving changes affecting aids, such as channel limits, breakwaters, including a copy of the
project document; (2) The proposed operations on such projects during the next fiscal year, to be
furnished annually on the release of the budget estimates; (3) Plans showing the final location of
the channel limits or structures to be furnished at the time work is undertaken.
b. Changes in channel limits affecting navigation aids, made under general or specific
provisions of the law, should be made the subject of a conference with the USCG District
Commander. The Commander will be promptly informed as to the approval of such changes and
the probable date of completion of the work.
c. USACE district commanders will furnish direct to the various USCG district
commanders, for their immediate information, any facts which may come to their attention in
connection with their duties which will be of benefit to the USCG in maintaining its system of aids
to navigation. This should include statements as to the displacement of or defects in any such aids
to navigation. It is recognized that, in some locations, the USACE does provide aids to
navigation support to the USCG pursuant to formal MOU's between the two agencies.
d. If work involving harbor or channel improvements directly affects any existing aids to
navigation or any structures of the USCG, USACE districts commanders will, when practicable,
give notice to the USCG District Commander sufficiently in advance to permit taking steps
deemed necessary by the USCG. If the USCG District Commander specifically requests that the
affected structure be replaced, the USACE District Commander should inform the Commander,
USCG of the estimated cost and the anticipated commencement and completion dates and the
USACE District Commander will proceed with the work if so authorized by the Commander,
USACE. On completion of the work, the USACE District Commander will promptly furnish the
USCG District Commander, for settlement, an account of the expense incurred.
2-5. Navigation Aids of the Corps of Engineers
a. Whenever channel dredging or other channel improvements are being performed,
necessary temporary markers, such as ranges and light poles, should be installed and maintained
by the USACE District Commander pending the installation of permanent aids by the USCG. The
USCG desires that information regarding aids to navigation installed or maintained by USACE
district commanders in connection with harbor or channel improvement be furnished promptly.
Such information is needed for inclusion in Notice to Mariners published by the USCG, on charts
of the waters concerned, where desirable.
b. USACE district commanders will notify the USCG District Commander in every case
where aids to navigation for marking works of harbor channel improvements are established or
discontinued. Notice should be given of such aids as may be of use or interest to general
navigation. Notice need not be given as to such buoys, lights, or fog signals as are of temporary
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