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Appendix: Community Resources <br />Wetland Banking Resources <br />American Society for Mining and Reclamation. Anon-profit organization dedicated to reestablishing, <br />Available online at httn://ces.ca.ukv.edu/asmr/ enhancing, and protecting natural resources on lands <br /> disturbed by mining or other human activities, or by <br /> disturbance through natural events.. <br />Association of State Wetland Managers. Available A nonprofit membership organization established to <br />online at www.aswm.ore promote and enhance protection and management of <br /> wetland resources, to promote application of sound <br /> science to wetland management efforts and to provide <br /> training and education for members and the public. <br />Clean Water Act Section 404. Available online at Established a program for regulating the discharge of <br />www.ega.eov/reeion5/water/ndf/ecwa t4.pdf dredged and fill material into US waters and a protocol <br /> for compensating for unavoidable wetland or aquatic <br /> resource impacts. <br />Critical Habitats, Inc. Guide to Wetland Banking. Provides a brief overview of how wetland banking <br />Available online at works and the benefits it can generate for the bank <br />httn://www.criticalhabitats.com/about2.htm#WhatIs sponsor. <br />Federal Guidance for the Establishment, Use, and The regulatory document providing guidance for the <br />Operation of Mitigation B anks. Available online at establishment, use, and operation of mitigation banks <br />httn://www.epa.eov/owow/wetlands/mitbankn.html for the purpose of providing compensatory mitigation <br /> for authorized adverse impacts to wetlands and other <br /> aquatic resources. <br />National Mitigation Banking Association. Available An association of individuals focused on conducting <br />online at httn://www.mitieationbankine.ore/index.html research and promoting policies that encourage <br /> mitigation banking as a sound compensatory mitigation <br /> approach. Members are involved with numerous <br /> wetland banking projects across the U.S. <br />National Research Council Report Compensating for An overview of compensatory mitigation actions <br />Wetland Losses Under the Clean Water Act, pages 82- authorized under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. <br />93. Available online at <br />httn://bo oks.na n. ed u/bo oks/0 3 09 074 3 20 /html/82 . html# <br />naeeton <br />National Wetlands Mitigation Banking Study Model Provides potential bank sponsors with an example of <br />Banking Instrument. Available online at how a bank instrument might look. <br />httn://www.iwr.usace.armv.mil/iwr/ndf/wmb tnl Mav <br />96.ndf <br />North Carolina State University's Water Quality Group Provide a great overview of the history, regulatory <br />Water, Soil, and Hydro-Environmental Decision framework, obstacles, opportunities, and logistics of <br />Support System (WATERSHEDS) Mitigation Banking wetland mitigation banking. <br />webpages. Available online at <br />httn://h2 oso arawa .ncsu. a du/info/wetland s/mitba nk.htm <br />1 <br />11 <br />