Mealey's (February 8, 2017, 12:05 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers notified Congress and a District of Columbia federal court Feb. 7 that it intends to comply with a recent presidential directive to reverse course and grant an easement to allow the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) to cross the Missouri River at Lake Oahe, just upstream from the reservation of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has been battling the route of the 1,172-mile crude oil pipeline for months (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, et al. v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, et al., No. 16-5259, D.C. Cir.)....