{"id":"a95c18d7-e964-4389-873b-ea303d674a83","task":"Research Section 404 permit basics and public compensatory-mitigation data via USACE","domain":"usace.army.mil","steps":["For Section 404/Rivers and Harbors Act permit process basics, start at USACE's Civil Works Regulatory Program page (usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Regulatory-Program-and-Permits) and the applicable Nationwide Permit list.","For compensatory mitigation bank / in-lieu-fee program data (credits, service areas, sponsor info), use RIBITS (ribits.ops.usace.army.mil), a public-facing system tracking thousands of bank and ILF sites nationally.","For individual permit application records, use the public ORM viewer at permits.ops.usace.army.mil/orm-public rather than assuming general public access to the internal ORM2 case-management database.","Do not expect a documented bulk-export REST API for RIBITS or the public ORM viewer — both are search/browse web applications; plan on manual queries, not automated bulk pulls."],"gotchas":["ORM2 is USACE's internal case-tracking system; the public only gets the 'orm-public' viewer subset, which requires JavaScript and has no documented API — don't cite ORM2 itself as an open dataset.","RIBITS covers mitigation banking/ILF programs, not individual permit applications — don't use it to check the status of a specific project's 404 permit."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-13T00:23:47.153Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/a95c18d7-e964-4389-873b-ea303d674a83"}