NC Environmental Restoration Association...NCERA Members • Restoration Systems • Environmental...
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NC Environmental Restoration Association
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NCERA Members
• Restoration Systems • Environmental Banc & Exchange • Wildlands Engineering • Michael Baker Corporation • KCI Technologies • Land Management Group • North State Environmental • Riverworks – A Division of the Fred Smith Company • BB&T • K2 Design • Eco Engineering – A Division of the John R. McAdams Company
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NCERA Quick Facts
• Members include: mitigation bankers, engineering firms, survey firms, construction companies, and banks.
• Member firms represent 180 employees across NC.
• Member Firms have offices in Wilmington, Goldsboro, Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Charlotte, and Asheville.
• Member firms employee companies outside NCERA including: engineering firms, construction companies, survey firms, archaeological survey firms, soil scientists, and law firms.
• Member Firms have developed projects in all 100 counties.
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Stream & Wetland Mitigation
• Clean Water Act (1972) – Federal law that regulates activities including the discharge of dredged or fill material into waters, including streams and wetlands, of the United States.
• Clean Water Act (Section 401) – State certification delegated by EPA.
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Stream & Wetland Mitigation
• Three options available to the public: • Permittee Responsible: Applicant proposes to restore, enhance, and/or
preserve streams or wetlands ‘On-Site.’
• Mitigation Banks: Banker develops a mitigation site and sells credits to developers, DOT, municipalities, etc.
• In-Lieu Fee: In NC, EEP takes in fees from DOT and developers, aggregates funds by watershed, and develops mitigation projects.
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Mitigation Process
Step 1: Identify and purchase land with degraded streams
and wetlands.
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Mitigation Process
Step 2: Design project to mimic high quality local streams and wetlands.
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Mitigation Process
Step 3: Contractor translates design plans into restored ecosystem.
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Mitigation Process
Step 4: Site is monitored for 7 years to ensure long term sustainability.
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EEP Procurement Mechanisms
• Design-Bid-Build
– On-call Consultants
– Contractors Bid
– Monitoring Consultants
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Credit Procurement
• Mitigation credit purchase
– Request for Information
– Request for Proposals (RFP)
• Full Delivery (RFP)
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RFP Process (Full Delivery)
• RFP advertise
• Secure conservation easement option
• Develop Technical & Cost Proposal
• State Review
• Project Implementation
• Closeout
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Contract Approval Process
• NCDOT mitigation needs
• EEP Contract recommendation
• NCDOT approvals through process
• Department of Administration
• Michael Bryant – Purchasing and Services
• Contract executed
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Solution
• Delegation or Exemption
• One order for Mitigation…
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Project Management
• Shift to FD in Feb 2011 completed June 2011
• Organizational difficulty implementing transition
• Project team approach
• Appears to be lack of commitment/interest
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Solution
Right people with the right skills
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Land
• Easement Inefficiency – requirements change
• Cost Uncertainty – long term management
• Cost of managing real estate
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Solution
• Third party easement holder
• Non-wasting endowment
• State out of the property business
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Full Delivery Benefits
• Cost Certainty to the State
• Deliver projects the State cannot implement
• Risk is on the Provider not the State
• Using private capital to finance work
• Benefit to the Natural Resources
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State Comparison
Virginia Vs.
South Carolina
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Virginia
Aquatic Resources Trust Fund
• The Nature Conservancy of Virginia
• US Army Corps of Engineers – Norfolk
• Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
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Price Comparison
Virginia • Streams $375 - $700
• Wetlands $30,000 - $100,000
North Carolina • Streams $276 - $365
• Wetlands $24,844 - $66,721
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South Carolina
• No In-Lieu Fee Program
• Escrow agreement for SCDOT
• Project Delays
• County projects???
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Questions/Comments
NCERA
John Hutton
Norton Webster