A mitigation plan is a description of additional activities you propose to compensate for a project’s likely adverse impacts to wetlands. These activities may occur on-site or off-site and include creating new wetlands or restoring, enhancing, or preserving existing wetlands.
For guidance on creating a mitigation plan, refer to Wetland Mitigation in Washington State Part 1&2 Guidance located at: https//ecology.wa.gov/Water-Shorelines/Wetlands/Mitigation.
If you have a draft mitigation plan, attach it to your application.
Definition(s):
· Mitigation Plan: A detailed document describing the restoration, establishment, enhancement, or preservation of aquatic resources to compensate for unavoidable adverse impacts that remain after all appropriate and practical avoidance and minimization has been achieved.
· 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.