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Greg DeYoung, AICP
Vice President Emeritus
Westervelt Ecological Services and ERBA Board Member
Sacramento, CA
Brian Topping
Environmental Protection Specialist
US Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, DC
Veronica Rowan
Assistant Regional Solicitor
U.S. Department of the Interior
Sacramento, CA
Lauren Senkyr
Habitat Restoration Specialist
NOAA Restoration Center
Portland, OR
Steven Martin
Mitigation Specialist and Consultant
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Norfolk, VA
With society’s present-day focus on environmental resilience and nature-based solutions, our industry has the opportunity to expand our reach and effectiveness. Wetland mitigation banks typically provide benefits beyond the immediate purposes of the Clean Water Act - but these multiple benefits often go unrecognized and seldom translate to new market opportunities. Yet in some places multi-benefit banks (sometimes known as “joint banks”) have operated for years and provide significant ecological and investment benefits: wetlands, streams, water quality, and species credits are successfully established and traded in some regions. These joint banks have been addressed at previous conferences, including the NMEBC 2021 in the panel, Training 102: Credit Types, Joint and Multi-Purpose Banking.
This 2022 workshop will build on previous panels by providing and discussing the mechanisms by which mitigation bank instruments can be crafted to achieve multi-benefit credits. The panel will focus on what is needed by regulatory authorities to establish a viable multi-purpose bank and what implementation complexities should be considered by practitioners. The workshop will provide templates of instruments and companion documents that can be used to set up multi-purpose mitigation banks.
