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Submerged Lands
Submerged Lands Program
Michigan's Submerged Lands Program is responsible for regulating construction activities along 3,165 miles of Great Lakes shoreline and over 38,000 square miles of Great Lakes bottomlands, including coastal marshes. The program regulates the recovery and use of submerged cultural resources (shipwrecks and associated artifacts) located in the Great Lakes, administers the underwater preserve program, and as of July 21, 2000, is responsible for regulating the recovery of submerged logs from Great ...

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Information

• New General Permit Categories PDF icon

• New Minor Project Categories PDF icon

• Shipwrecks and Bottomland Preserves

• Offshore Lighthouse Conveyances

• Notice for Great Lakes groin shore protection structure applications

• Great Lakes Bottomland Conveyances

• St. Clair Flats


Laws and Rules

• Part 325, Great Lakes Submerged Lands

• Part 325, Great Lakes Submerged Lands Rules

• Part 339, Control of Certain State Lands (St. Clair Flats)

• Part 761, Aboriginal Records And Antiquities


Permits

• MDEQ/USACE Joint Permit Application

• Bottomland Conveyance Application PDF icon

• On-line Permit Tracking System (CIWPIS)




Quick Links
 •  Contact Information for Submerged Lands

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