An Environmental Protection Agency official offered compliments aplenty in his comments to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding NISP’s Final Environmental Impact Statement. In highlighting various aspects of the project, Philip S. Strobel, who serves at the EPA’s National Environmental Protection Act Compliance and Review Program director, wrote that the “mitigation plan would not only reduce or avoid some significant project impacts, the plan’s winter and summer modified conveyance flows would improve certain important ecological conditions on the reach of the Poudre through Fort Collins compared to current conditions.”

The NISP Final Environmental Impact Statement was released in July 2018, which was followed by a public comment period that concluded on Oct. 4.