WRDA 96-99 Mitigation Credit

The impacts associated with WRDA 1996 were originally addressed in the May 5, 1996 Biological Opinion (BO; 1-1-96-F-0028) and the impacts associated with WRDA 1999 were originally addressed in the September 19, 1996 VELB Programmatic BO (1-1-96-F-0066) and in the July 16, 2003 BO (1-1-00-F-0193). The USFWS provided as needed technical assistance and issued numerous amendments for each of these BOs.
These BOs required the Corps to provide compensatory mitigation to help offset the Project's direct impacts to elderberry shrubs and VELB within the LAR Parkway at Cal Expo (~13 acres), River Bend (~16 acres) and River Mile (RM) 11.5 (~2.5 acres) (Figure 1). These conservation areas were created in accordance with the USFWS's Conservation Guidelines for the Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle, dated July 9, 1999.
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