SAM COLLINSON

Sam Collinson is a Senior Advisor with over thirty years of experience with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), including twenty-six years of national water resources regulatory experience in Headquarters USACE as Chief, Policy Development Section with primary responsibility for development of Corps Regulatory Program regulations and policy guidance that included: 

• Current Corps regulations at 33 CFR 320-331
• Corps Administrative Appeal Program and regulations
• Nationwide permit (NWP) program and the current nationwide permits,
• Corps historic properties regulations
• Regulatory Guidance Letters
• The Tulloch Rule
• US Coast Guard (USCG) and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) categorical exclusions for NWP 23
• The Endangered Species biological opinion for NWP 29
• (With USCG) Regulating causeways on the North Slope of Alaska
• Essential Fish Habitat conditions on NWPs with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
• The regulation for the definition of fill material
• The regulation for the definition of dredged material
• Initiation of the Corps response to the SWANCC decision

He managed the Corps’ Regulatory training program and served as an instructor in that program, and was also the Corps Federal Register Liaison Officer.

Prior to his Headquarters position he held positions in the Corps’ Philadelphia and Baltimore Districts.  He has been in private practice since 2002 and a Senior Advisor to Dawson & Associates since 2006.

Mr. Collinson holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland.