Please join the National Environmental Banking Association(NEBA) for a live event highlighting what is going on in and around Washington with regard to Mitigation Banking. This LIVE 1-hour session will be held Wednesday, April 13, at 3pm Eastern.
John Paul Woodley, former Assistant Secretary for the Army (Civil Works) will discuss the recent report to Congress responding to the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act in Support of Mitigation Rule which The President, the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate agreed upon in the 2021 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act. In a recently rare show of bipartisan cooperation, they acted in support of the 2008 Mitigation Rule (The Rule).
“This is the most significant step forward for the mitigation banking industry in more than a decade,” said Donna Collier, Chairwoman of the National Environmental Banking Association’s (NEBA’s) board of directors. “Our membership and Board of Directors are especially proud of this achievement, and given the frequently uncompromising nature of our country’s recent politics, we extend our heartfelt thanks to all of the legislators and to the President, who supported this effort,” she said.
The Act includes the following language: “Compensatory Mitigation Rule.- There is concern that the Corps may not be consistent in its implementation of the 2008 Compensatory Mitigation Rule, based on the Corps’ publicly available data. There are concerns that particular districts have failed…” >Read the Act
As per reporting requirements for both houses of the U.S. Congress, the Corps provided a briefing, along with identifying steps for improving consistent implementation of the Rule including the mitigation hierarchy.
To register for the April 13 Special Session: