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The Georgia Wetlands Trust Fund: An In-lieu Fee Program for Wetlands Mitigation
The Georgia Wetlands Trust Fund: An In-lieu Fee Program for Wetlands Mitigation
| dc.contributor.author | Neuhauser, Hans N. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Rowden, Rebecca | en_US |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Land Trust | en_US |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Savannah District | en_US |
| dc.contributor.editor | Hatcher, Kathryn J. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-25T20:15:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-06-25T20:15:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999-03 | |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the 1999 Georgia Water Resources Conference, March 30 and 31, Athens, Georgia. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The Georgia Wetlands Trust Fund (GWTF) provides an alternative strategy for meeting wetlands mitigation requirements under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. Upon approval by the U.S. Anny Corps of Engineers, permittees can meet some or all of their mitigation requirements by contributing a fee to the GWTF. The fee is used to help local partners, either a land trust or government entity, acquire and permanently protect wetlands with high conservation value. For the developer, use of the GWTF simplifies the task of meeting mitigation requirements imposed by the Corps of Engineers, and depending on circumstances, may also be more cost effective than on-site mitigation or the purchase of credits from a mitigation bank. For the regulatory agency, the GWTF increases regulatory flexibility and simplifies the Corps' administrative oversight. For the conservation community, the GWTF allows land trusts or natural resources agencies to permanently protect wetlands with high conservation value. The GWTF may also be used for Settlement Agreements. The GWTF is administered by the Georgia Land Trust Service Center, a private, non-profit organization headquartered in Athens, Georgia. The agreement that established the GWTF, the first such agreement of its kind in the United States, was signed by representatives of the Georgia Land Trust Service Center and the Savannah District of the U.S. Anny Corps of Engineers in July, 1997. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Sponsored and Organized by: U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | This book was published by the Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2202 with partial funding provided by the U.S. Department of Interior, geological Survey, through the Georgia Water Research Insttitute as authorized by the Water Research Institutes Authorization Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-397). The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views or policies of the University of Georgia or the U.S. Geological Survey or the conference sponsors. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 0-935835-06-7 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/47998 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.publisher.original | Institute of Ecology | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | GWRI1999. River Basin Management | en_US |
| dc.subject | Water resources management | en_US |
| dc.subject | Georgia Wetlands Trust Fund | en_US |
| dc.subject | Wetlands mitigation | en_US |
| dc.subject | In-lieu fee programs | en_US |
| dc.title | The Georgia Wetlands Trust Fund: An In-lieu Fee Program for Wetlands Mitigation | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Proceedings | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Water Resources Institute | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | School of Civil and Environmental Engineering | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | College of Engineering | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | Georgia Water Resources Conference | |
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