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Publication Summary

Title	Washington State Wetland Mitigation Evaluation Study, Phase I: Compliance
Month-Year Published	June 2000
Online Availability	View this publication in Acrobat PDF format 999 kilobytes, requires version 4.0 or later of Adobe Acrobat Reader Software get Acrobat Reader
Short Description	Study assessing the effectiveness of compensatory wetland mitigation statewide. The study evaluated permit compliance for 45 mitigation projects randomly selected from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Ecology databases. The study evaluated site conditions against requirements of a variety of regulations (including Section 404 permits, water quality certifications, wetland mitigation plans, and monitoring reports). (Also see abstract below)
Publication Number	00-06-016
Author(s)	Patricia Johnson, Dana Mock
Print Availability	Request from the program.
Number of pages	94
Keywords	agriculture, compliance, evaluation, mitigation, plan, shoreline, study, water, wetland
Related Web Content	Wetland Mitigation
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	Washington State Wetland Mitigation Evaluation Study - Phase 2, Evaluating Success	similar topic
Abstract	Long Description
	Study assessing the effectiveness of compensatory wetland mitigation statewide. The study evaluated permit compliance for 45 mitigation projects randomly selected from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Ecology databases. The study evaluated site conditions against requirements of a variety of regulations (including Section 404 permits, water quality certifications, wetland mitigation plans, and monitoring reports). The study asked three questions of each project: Was the project implemented? Was it implemented to plan? Was it meeting its performance standards (those assessable by the methods of this study)?

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