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COMPENSATING FOR WETLAND LOSSES UNDER THE CLEAN WATER ACT
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Baltimore District's Guidelines, 227–228
Basin Wetlands and Riparian Restoration Plan, 210
Biological dynamics, evaluating in terms of regional reference models 5 , 45
Biological opinion (BO), 257–258
BO. See Biological opinion
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, 20
Bogs, 26–27
Bush, George W., 156
C
California Coastal Act, 299
California Department of Fish and Game, South Coast Region, guidelines for wetland mitigation, 217–218
California Department of Transportation, 203 , 205
Carolina bays, 52
Case studies, 199–210
Coyote Creek mitigation site, 201–208
Everglades National Park, 34 , 199–201
North Carolina Wetland Restoration Program, 208–210
CEQ. See Council on Environmental Quality
Channelization, 58
Chicago District Mitigation Guidelines, 229–230
Cladium jamaicence , 30
Clean Water Act (CWA), 1–4 , 6 , 60 , 299 .
See also Section 404 permits
objective of, 11–13 , 15 , 53 , 240
Clinton Administration Wetland Plan, 145
Coastal wetlands, on the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts, 41
Coastal zone management, in processing Department of the Army permit applications, 255–257
Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA), 252 , 255–256 , 264–265
Code of Federal Regulations, 65
Commanders, memorandum for, 234–238
Commercial mitigation banks, 86
Committee on Mitigating Wetland Losses, 2 , 12–13 , 20–21
Community structure, setting goals addressing, 7 , 45
Comparative studies, of mitigation and natural wetlands, 189–198
Compensation
in-kind, 301
out-of-kind, 302
permittee-responsible, 8 , 167
self-sustaining, 53–57
third-party, 9 , 93 , 168
Compensation wetland planning, 146–147 , 300
Compensatory mitigation, 300
in California, parameters measured in, 107
completing before permitting activity, 7 , 139 , 167
defined, 14
designing and constructing individual sites on watershed scale, 7 , 139 , 167
establishing long-term stewardship for, 8 , 168
guidelines for implementing, 9 , 93
initiation of, 150
performance standards from selected Section 404 permits requiring 222
in processing Department of the Army permit applications, 265–268
Compensatory mitigation mechanisms under Section 404 , 82–93
legal responsibility for the mitigation, 86–88
location of the compensatory mitigation action, 83–86
MBRT process, 91
recommendation, 93
relationship of mitigation actions to permitted activities, 88–91
stewardship requirements, 91–92
a taxonomy, 92
Compliance, 94–122
based on area, for mitigation that was attempted based on field inspection or monitoring reports, 119
based on permit number, for when the mitigation plan was fully implemented 118
improving monitoring of, 8 , 168
inspection and enforcement of, 156–157
with mitigation design standards, 97– 101