Oregon Statutes - Chapter 196 - Columbia River Gorge; Ocean Resource Planning; Wetlands; Removal and Fill - Section 196.600 - Definitions for ORS 196.600 to 196.655.

As used in ORS 196.600 to 196.655:

(1) “Compensatory wetland mitigation” means activities conducted by a permittee or third party to create, restore or enhance wetland functional attributes to compensate for the adverse effects of project development or to resolve violations of ORS 196.800 to 196.905.

(2) “Credit” means the measure of the increase in wetland functional attributes achieved at a mitigation bank site.

(3) “Mitigation bank” means a wetland site, created, restored or enhanced in accordance with ORS 196.600 to 196.655 to compensate for unavoidable adverse impacts due to activities which otherwise comply with the requirements of ORS 196.600 to 196.905.

(4) “Mitigation bank instrument” means the legally binding and enforceable agreement between the Director of the Department of State Lands and a mitigation bank sponsor that formally establishes the mitigation bank and stipulates the terms and conditions of the mitigation bank’s construction, operation and long-term management.

(5) “Off-site compensatory wetland mitigation” means activities conducted away from the project site that restore, create or enhance wetland functional attributes in order to compensate for the adverse impacts to wetlands from project development.

(6) “On-site compensatory wetland mitigation” means activities conducted at the project site to restore, create or enhance wetland functional attributes in order to compensate for the adverse impacts to wetlands from project development.

(7) “Permit action” means activity under a specific removal or fill permit or other authorization requested or issued under ORS 196.600 to 196.905.

(8) “Service area” means the boundaries set forth in a mitigation bank instrument that include one or more watersheds identified on the United States Geological Survey, Hydrologic Unit Map - 1974, State of Oregon, for which a mitigation bank provides credits to compensate for adverse effects from project developments. Service areas for mitigation banks are not mutually exclusive.

(9) “Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan” means the plan created by the State Parks and Recreation Department pursuant to the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460-L et seq.). [Formerly 541.550; 1995 c.370 §2; 2003 c.738 §3]

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