A mitigation plan is a description of additional activities you propose to compensate for a project’s likely adverse impacts to the aquatic environment. These activities may occur on-site or off-site and include creating new aquatic resources or restoring, enhancing, or preserving existing aquatic resources.
If you have a draft mitigation plan, attach it to your application.
Definition(s):
· Mitigation: Actions taken to avoid, minimize, and compensate for adverse or negative effects on the environment.
· Wetland: An area that is inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances does support, a prevalence of vegetation adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas.