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SWG-2013-00141 - Forestar (USA) Real Estate Group, Inc. - Liberty County

Published Feb. 19, 2013
Expiration date: 3/21/2013

Full Public Notice   Prospectus

Forestar (USA) Real Estate Group, Inc. (FREG) has requested authorization to create a commercial wetlands mitigation bank, named the Houston-Conroe Mitigation Bank (HCMB), within the Galveston District of the Corps.  The Sponsor is proposing to restore, enhance and preserve 17,840 linear feet (247 acres) of wetland and stream resources to produce regional mitigation credits to meet the need for stream and wetland compensatory mitigation within the geographic service area of the mitigation bank respectively.

 

The purpose of the HCMB will be to provide an effective approach to satisfy compensatory mitigation requirements of the Corps’ Regulatory Program developed in accordance with the Compensatory Mitigation for Losses of Aquatic Resources [73 Fed. Reg. 19594, 10 April 2008 (codified in 33 CFR 332)].  A Mitigation Banking Instrument (MBI) would be developed following the aforementioned policy and will detail the legal and physical characteristics of the bank and how the bank would be established and operated.  Subjects addressed in detail in the MBI will include development of the site, service area, credit determination, financial assurances, scope of agreement, purpose and goals of the bank, baseline conditions, performance standards for restoration or enhancement activities, accounting procedures, monitoring and reporting, long-term maintenance and protection, and transfer of bank ownership or sponsorship.  The applicant will be working with the Corps and other Federal and State resource agencies (the Interagency Review Team-IRT) in the development of the MBI.