The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has received the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (Service) biological opinion of the Fire Island Inlet to Moriches Inlet stabilization project concluding that while project activities will affect piping plovers, the project will not jeopardize the continued existence of this species.

The biological opinion, developed to fulfill the Corps’ obligations under the Endangered Species Act, analyzes the possible effects of the project to the threatened piping plover and other protected species. It also outlines measures that the Corps and other partner agencies would implement to minimize or mitigate for those effects.