It is the purpose of ORS 196.600 to 196.655 to:
(1) Promote, in concert with other federal and state programs as well as interested parties, the maintenance and conservation of wetlands;
(2) Improve cooperative efforts among private, nonprofit and public entities for the management and protection of wetlands;
(3) Offset losses of wetland functional attributes caused by activities which otherwise comply with state and federal law in order to create, restore or enhance wetland functional attributes;
(4) Maintain and encourage a predictable, efficient regulatory framework for environmentally acceptable development; and
(5) Provide an option for accomplishing off-site compensatory wetland mitigation when on-site compensatory wetland mitigation is not practicable. [Formerly 541.555; 2003 c.738 §4]
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