PART IV.  Aquatic mitigation banking and aquatic

in-lieu fee mitigation

Note

  Part heading amended by L 2022, c 32, §2.

     §187A-41  Aquatic mitigation banking and aquatic in-lieu fee mitigation.  The department may establish and operate aquatic mitigation banks and aquatic in-lieu fee mitigation programs for the purpose of restoring, creating, enhancing, preserving, or any combination thereof, aquatic habitats or resources where a person is required to provide compensatory mitigation either for:

     (1)  Prospective damages to aquatic habitats or resources where the use of aquatic mitigation banking or aquatic in-lieu fee mitigation is approved by the agency requiring mitigation; or

     (2)  Past damages to aquatic habitats or resources. [L 2016, c 211, pt of §2; am L 2022, c 32, §3]