The applicant, the Greenway Conservancy for the Hudson Valley, Inc., has requested Department of the Army authorization to discharge fill material into waters of the United States to facilitate the construction of a 36-mile pedestrian and bicycle trail in the City of Rensselaer, Village of Nassau and Towns of East Greenbush, Schodack and Nassau, Rensselaer County, New York and in the Towns of Chatham, Kinderhook, Stuyvesant, Stockport and Greenport, and Villages of Valatie and Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York.