Identical to S 765, filed 4/27/16.

Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to submit written comments to the United States Army Corps of Engineers in support of the Wilmington District of the Army Corps of Engineers adopting Regional Conditions that will increase the threshold for the requirement of mitigation for loss of stream bed of perennial or intermittent stream from 150 to 300 linear feet.  Comments must be submitted during the time period for public comment set by the Wilmington District in its published notice of the proposed 2017 five-year reauthorization of Nationwide Permits issued pursuant to the Clean Water Act.