California Fish and Game Code CHAPTER 9 - Advance Mitigation And Regional Conservation Investment Strategies

• Section 1850.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it would be beneficial to identify species and habitat conservation initiatives at a regional scale, including actions to address...
• Section 1851.
  For purposes of this chapter:(a) “Administrative draft natural community conservation plan” means a substantially complete draft of a natural community conservation plan that is released after...
• Section 1852.
  (a) The department may approve a regional conservation investment strategy pursuant to this chapter. A regional conservation investment strategy may be proposed by the department or...
• Section 1853.
  (a) The department may approve a regional conservation assessment only for the purposes of a regional conservation investment strategy pursuant to this chapter. A regional conservation...
• Section 1854.
  (a) The department may prepare or approve a regional conservation investment strategy, or approve an amended strategy, for an initial period of up to 10 years...
• Section 1855.
  (a) Regional conservation investment strategies shall not affect the authority or discretion of any public agency and shall not be binding upon public agencies other than...
• Section 1856.
  (a) A conservation action or habitat enhancement action that measurably advances the conservation objectives of an approved regional conservation investment strategy may be used to create...
• Section 1857.
  The department shall collect fees or other compensation from a person or entity that proposes to enter into a mitigation credit agreement, and from a...
• Section 1858.
  The department may adopt guidelines and criteria to aid in the implementation of this chapter. Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of...
• Section 1859.
  (a) The department shall submit a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2020, regarding the implementation of this chapter.(b) The report required to be...
• Section 1860.
  Nothing in this chapter supersedes, limits, or otherwise modifies the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009 (Division 35 (commencing with Section 85000) of the...
• Section 1861.
  The department shall approve no more than eight regional conservation investment strategies.(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 95, Sec. 2. (SB 103) Effective July 21, 2017.)

Last modified: October 22, 2018