MITIGATION SEQUENCING Clause Samples
MITIGATION SEQUENCING. A step-wise process whereby impacts to the environment are mitigated, using a preferred order of steps/approaches, beginning with avoiding the impact altogether. The preferred order of mitigation sequencing is as follows:
a. Avoid impacts by not taking a certain action or parts of an action;
b. Minimize impacts by limiting the degree or magnitude of the action and its implementation by using appropriate technology or by taking affirmative steps to avoid or reduce impacts;
c. Rectify impacts by repairing, rehabilitating, or restoring the affected environment;
d. Reduce or eliminate impacts over time by preservation and maintenance operations;
e. Compensate for the impact by replacing, enhancing, or providing substitute resources or environments; and for any of these five approaches
f. Monitor impacts, mitigation, and compensatory mitigation projects, taking appropriate corrective measures.
MITIGATION SEQUENCING. A step-wise process whereby impacts to the environment are mitigated, using a preferred order of steps/approaches, beginning with avoiding the impact altogether. The preferred order of mitigation sequencing is as follows:
MITIGATION SEQUENCING. Credits at a WCB Site may be used to compensate for unavoidable adverse impacts to wetlands attributable to WSDOT activities only after all appr opriate and practicable measures have first been taken, in sequence, to mitigate impacts. Those measures include, in the following order of preference, the following:
a. Avoiding the impact altogether by not taking a certain action or parts of an action.
b. Minimizing impacts by limiting the degree or magnitude of the action and its implementation, by using appropriate technology or by taking affirmative steps to avoid or reduce impacts.
c. Repairing, rehabilitating, or restoring the affected environment.
d. Reducing or eliminating the impact over time by preservation and maintenance operations during the life of the action.
e. Compensating on site for the impact by replacing, enhancing, or providing substitute resources or environments.