Compensating for wetland losses under the Clean Water Act
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Mitigating Wetland Losses.
- ناشر : Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press,
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2001
- شابک / ISBN : 9780309074322
Description
No Net Loss and the Section 404 Program -- The Committee's Task -- Outcomes of Wetland Restoration and Creation -- Five Wetland Functions -- Factors That Contribute to the Performance of Mitigation Sites -- Watershed Setting -- Watershed Organization and Landscape Function -- Wetland Function and Position in the Watershed -- Watershed-Scale Patterns of Wetland Losses -- A Watershed Template for Wetland Restoration and Conservation -- Wetland Permitting: History and Overview -- Evolution of Compensatory Mitigation Requirements in the CWA Section 404 Program -- General Mitigation Requirements -- General Corps Mitigation Requirements -- CWA Section 404 Mitigation Requirements -- Mitigation Banking -- In-Lieu Fees -- The Clean Water Act and the Goal of No Net Loss -- Section 404 Permit Process -- Inspection and Enforcement -- Compensatory Mitigation Mechanisms Under Section 404 -- Location of the Compensatory Mitigation Action -- Legal Responsibility for the Mitigation -- Relationship of Mitigation Actions to Permitted Activities (Timing) -- The MBRT Process -- Stewardship Requirements -- A Taxonomy -- Recommendation -- Mitigation Compliance -- Mitigation Planning -- Mitigation Design Standards -- Project Implementation -- Compliance with Permit Conditions -- Mitigation Ratios -- Monitoring of Mitigation Projects -- Monitoring Duration -- The Compliance Record -- Technical Approaches Toward Achieving No Net Loss -- Operational Guidelines for Creating or Restoring Wetlands That Are Ecologically Self-Sustaining.
