United States Department of Transportation
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0-6762 : maximizing mitigation benefits-making a difference with strategic inter-resource agency planning.
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2014-08-01
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Abstract:Transportation agencies do their best to avoid
and minimize any impacts to the environment,
but some impacts are unavoidable.
Compensatory mitigation is used to offset these
unavoidable impacts to the environment. Over
$3.3 billion is spent annually on compensatory
mitigation under the Clean Water Act and
Endangered Species Act programs, so there are
significant incentives to minimize the cost of
mitigation from transportation impacts. This
project assessed current mitigation policies and
practices to identify strategies and priorities to
reduce mitigation cost and provide
opportunities to expedite project delivery. The
Integrated Ecological Framework (IEF)1 is one
of these strategies that provides a step-by-step
approach to identifying ecological priorities and
integrating them into transportation planning
and decision making (Table 1).
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