• Policy Category: Bolstering CWA Protections
• State: Mississippi
• Date Implemented: 7/1/2021

7/1/2021

This Act amended the Coastal Wetlands Protection Act to define “ordinary high water mark” (OHWM) to mean “A mark on the shore determined by the Department staff, established by fluctuations in water level and indicated by physical and biological characteristics…” It also revised the definition of “coastal wetlands” to mean all publicly owned lands subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, which are below the ordinary high water mark, all publicly owned accretions above the ordinary high water mark and all publicly owned submerged water bottoms below the ordinary high water mark…”

• Action Agency(ies): Department of Marine Resources
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